Good Omens: Review: Episode 4: Saturday Morning Funtime
The countdown to Armageddon has begun, with just 5 hours and 48 minutes remaining until the end of the world, and Adam is now coming in to true powers. If […]
The countdown to Armageddon has begun, with just 5 hours and 48 minutes remaining until the end of the world, and Adam is now coming in to true powers. If […]
The countdown to Armageddon has begun, with just 5 hours and 48 minutes remaining until the end of the world, and Adam is now coming in to true powers.
If the previous instalments of Good Omens were a little ‘out there’ for you, just wait until you see what Adam is now conjuring up. The Antichrist is inadvertently causing his dreams to come to life, and spectacularly they are based on the paranoid ramblings of a conspiracy magazine. So Atlantis is rediscovered, the Kraken awakes, targeting Japanese whaling ships, and green, duck-faced aliens pull-over Pulsifer. It really is the end of days!
You see, things on the internet can be made up, but not in magazines! The other members of Adam’s gang The Them are starting to realise that something’s not right, and elsewhere in Israel a planned photo opportunity on the fields of Megiddo – a boy, his dog, four horsemen – reveals to the dark forces that they’ve been watching the wrong child, and all hell breaks loose.
The final two horsemen (Pollution and Death) are introduced and Armageddon can begin. Our two leads Aziraphale and Crowley get back together again after their spat, but their respective masters are now aware of their ongoing fraternising with the enemy, which cannot be allowed to continue. There’s a wonderful scene where David Tennant’s Crowley tackles his pursuers with a bucket of holy water over the door and a plant mister – ‘Do you feel lucky?’
Verdict: There’s a moment where Adam seals the mouths of his friends like Anthony did in The Twilight Zone’s It’s a Good Life, and you realise things will never be the same. Still gloriously creative and witty, the clock is ticking down… 8/10
Nick Joy