The pictures are an angel and a demon from the Amazon Prime series “Good Omens”, if you were wondering.
Is it worth watching? I’m not sure what kind of show it is…I watched about 10mins of the first episode and couldn’t get into it. Couldn’t figure out if it was fantasy, comedy, comedy-horror, or something else. It felt weird. An angel and demon meet up and chat about the apocalypse?
Does it get better?
The first season is incredible. Tennant and Sheen have an amazing chemistry together and they’re both phenomenal actors. The story is very Pratchetty if you’re familiar with his work. Second season is a bit so-so but still good, mostly because I didn’t really like the ending.
I concur, first season was incredible, one of the best series I’ve watched in the last few years. And it had a real ending + finished storyline: no aggravating cliffhangers or loose ends, no endless milking or filler episodes to uselessly extent the viewtime, just a very good finished story that never left me bored. This feels so rare these days.
I’m now watching the 2nd series and so far it’s been so so indeed. I’m not very far yet though.
Yeah the second season honestly felt a bit like a fan fict. Not bad, per se, just an excuse to keep using the characters but nothing new in terms of message.
Probably nothing to be done about that with Pratchett’s death.
I read Diggers as a lad and enjoyed it but I’ve never bothered to get into his Discworld stuff cos it seems too vast. I’ll watch the first two episodes and see if it clicks. Thank you. 👍
It’s based on a book by Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU Terry Pratchett, you shall be missed) and Neil Gaiman. If you know Pratchett then you know it’s mostly going to be an absurdist comedy.
Other works I recommend from Pratchett are Going Postal, Equal Rites, and Guards! Guards!
I definitely enjoyed watching the first two seasons, and will wait eagerly for the next. I’m sure it would be disturbing for someone with fundamentalist Christian views, but the story and humor were right up my alley.
It’s comedy, mostly. Not horror at all.
And it’s more that an angel and demon who are friends (because they’ve spent so much time on Earth they felt they ended up having more in common with each other than their own side), and upon finding out about the approaching apocalypse, decide to try to avert it (without actually going against their own side) because they don’t want Earth to end, as regardless who wins The Final Battle, it will suck.
I think it gets better, but it is a bit of a slow burn. It’s just a comedy that’s a satire on religion and systemic oppression, that uses an angel and a devil being friends to convey that.
I enjoyed it, but I wasn’t glued to the screen. I think it’s absolutey worth the watch, but it did take an episode or two to gain my interest.
The Powers That Be: “Why do you have that hammer?”
Angry Masses: “To destroy and/or repair the system. Your pick, depending on how cooperative you are.”
We are going to need a whole lot more than pitchforks…
We collect those from fallen enemies. We were taught in the US military that if you are facing an unarmed hostile force that outnumbers you 5:1, you need to retreat and withdraw, as your position will be overrun, and you just armed the hostile force.
Sometimes the only way something can be fixed is by dismantling it first.
One thing y’all gotta understand: the strongest proponents of ‘the system’ who are not an active controller of that system do not belive there even IS a system.
Every fault, every tragedy, every bit of corruption? They hold it as the fault of an individual who failed only themselves. It’s why they took ‘bad apple’ and ‘bootstraps’ idioms and misinterpreted them as individual successes and failures, not systemic ones
