Aziraphale’s bookshop has burnt down, but what became of Agnes Nutter’s book of prophecies? Elsewhere, Adam’s transformation is nearly complete, and surely Armageddon is inevitable.

The pacing picks up in this exciting adaptation of the popular comic fantasy novel, with all the pieces on the board, starting to converge on previously sleepy village Lower Tadfield for the final battle.

Aziraphale is in a bit of a fix, having gone to Heaven too soon, and needing to get back to Earth through possession. Meanwhile, Pulsifer and Anathema are in the afterglow of their prophesied union and start drawing up battle plans. In the most unsettling scene so far, Hastur (a terrifying Ned Dennehy) is accidentally resurrected by an operative in a call centre, emerging from a seething mass of maggots.

No good can come from the Four Horsemen (for ‘horse’ read ‘horsepower’ as they’re on motorbikes) infiltrating a US airbase – the soldier on duty is reading Neil Gaiman’s American Gods – while others are kept away by the M25, which is now a burning ring of infernal fire.

Verdict: There’s now just 31 minutes until the end of the world, and David Arnold’s organ version of his catchy theme tune over the end credits dials up the ‘ominous factor’ to 11. It’s time for the final showdown, and I’m pretty sure it won’t play out as we imagine. Someone with better willpower than me would spread out the viewing, but when a series is so deliciously bingeworthy, why wouldn’t you watch them as quickly as you could. 8/10

Nick Joy