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Last week, I visited the film locations of Shakespeare in Love in honor of the 25th anniversary of the film winning the Academy award for Best Picture.

I’ve been putting off Good Omens 2. I liked the original Good Omens but it always felt like it was one step away from being something that I didn’t like. So, I was cautious about the sequel.

Three things in the first fifteen minutes convinced me that Good Omens 2 was my kind of weird:

1. The setting is a recognizable but gloriously stylized London.
2. The characters have experienced the pandemic, just as we have.
3. Hell’s new representative in London made me laugh, grimly, with this quote:

Was it always this easy? I keep planning complicated, strategic strikes to spread misery and panic among the humans and just as I’m about to put one into motion, they come up with something themselves which is so much worse than anything I could have thought of.

David Tennant’s grumpy demon and Michael Sheen’s cluelessly affable angel become a trio in Good Omens 2. They are joined by the Archangel Gabriel (played to great effect by John Hamm) who appears in angel Aziraphale’s book shop without his purple eyes or his memory.

The other characters are fun, too. The angel Muriel provides more comedy because she knows so little about heaven and even less about earth. Two humans experience all the messiness of relationships, especially when Aziraphale and Crowley decide that they know what is best for them.

I’m looking forward to the third and final season that was announced on December 14.

Have you seen Good Omens 2? What did you think?