To be honest, audiences who do not know much about European and American fantasy literature may miss a good drama because of this overly rustic title - "Good Omens"
Good Omens is a 6-episode fantasy comedy co-produced by the BBC and Amazon.
The show is based on a humorous fantasy novel of the same name co-author Neil Gaiman and Discworld author Terry Pratchett.
These two writers are both well-known, have won more than twenty first prizes in fantasy literature, when the two met at the end of the year, they jointly created the book "Good Omens", the reason is only to feel sorry for each other, in order to make each other laugh out loud in the text communication.
"Good Omens" tells that in 2018, the apocalyptic judgment is approaching, the good and evil sides are recruiting, the world visions are frequent, the Antichrist "Son of Satan" is alive, and the war between heaven and hell is about to break out. But neither a picky and good-natured angel, Yatsrafil, nor a rock-and-roll demon, Krulley, wanted to mess around. He has lived on Earth for thousands of years, lived a life of touching fish for each other and sending off their bosses, and feels comfortable in the world (such as sushi, used bookstores, trendy music and drag racing). So the two decided to teach the young "Son of Satan" to give up destroying the world. But no one realizes at all that the "Son of Satan" was wrongly held by the nurse from the beginning, and the one who is now being taught is simply an ordinary person...
Eleven years ago, Satan sent his sons to earth to wait for him to grow up and destroy the world; and the angels on the other side of heaven who had looked at human beings unfavorably did not care about human life and death, and finally had the opportunity to fight with the demons in a justifiable way. Earth, destroy, hurry.
But the demon Krully didn't think so. He is the poisonous snake who seduced Eve in the Garden of Eden, an atypical demon who drives a Bentley in the modern city and listens to Queen, an unemployed vagabond—if it's not a job to cause trouble for mankind for Satan. After thousands of years of wandering and happy in the human world, he felt that the world was not bad, ruined it, and unfortunately, in order to prevent the end of the world, he found his secret old friend at the first time, the angel Yatsrafiel.
Angel Yats Rafael runs an old book business in London's SOHO district, grumbling, gluttonous, and is an angel who is more angelic than you imagine. Yatssrafil's friendship with Krully was long before the Garden of Eden, and a pair of brothers who should have been in the water and fire slowly discovered the resonance after spending thousands of years in the human world- in the chaotic days of the human world, they were perfunctory to their respective superiors. There are still so many delicious foods in this world that have not been eaten, how can it be destroyed now.
The destruction of the world is impossible, it is impossible to destroy in this lifetime, and the betrayal of the boss will not be done. So the two brothers discussed their own contact with the Son of Satan, and educated the great enemy of God, the destroyer of the kings, the angel of the bottomless abyss, the beast named the dragon, the prince of this realm, the father of lies, the seed of Satan and the prince of darkness, the son of aka Satan, to be a harmless ordinary boy, and to make a little joke about the last judgment.
Fast forward eleven years, with a week to go before the apocalyptic judgment, and the world will come to an end on Saturday—next Saturday, to be precise. The brothers, who should have been sitting back, found out that they had held the wrong child eleven years ago, and that the true son of Satan was growing savagely out of nowhere. Angels and demons who were just for the sake of the days re-embarked on their journey, but they certainly didn't expect that the witches, the witch hunters, Gabriel, Satan, God, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Atlantis, the Trolls of the Deep, the Lark Prophecy Book, the Tibetans underground, the aliens, the nuclear missile crisis... They have joined this apocalyptic farce of "Good Omens".
Nearly all of the show's cast — including Doctor Who David Tennant and Twilight series actor Mike Simd — are big fans of Neil Gaiman.
Benedict Cumberbatch also played a faceless character in the play, can you tell that this is a curly?
The original English title for the original novel and drama version of Good Omens was "Good Omens".
In fact, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett are highly religious cult films released in the 1976 horror genre film The Omen.
The storyline of the film "Omens" is that after the American ambassador Robert adopted the boy Damie, a series of strange events foreshadowed that bad luck knocked on Robert's door, after which Father Bonan told him that Dame was satan's son and would complete his ambition to rule the world by any means.
Familiar? The first episode of "Good Omens" tells a similar story, but in the fantasy world of "Good Omens", the Antichrist who will destroy the world in the book of Revelation is not so terrifying and frightening, and even accidentally lives the life of an ordinary boy after a "tanuki cat for prince" trick, teasing all the supernatural beings in heaven and hell.
When angels and devils are mentioned, the images that come to mind are often solemn and solemn, where angels in heaven and demons who fall into hell are in an absolute state of hostility, engaged in an endless fateful duel that does not exist in Good Omens, where the angel Yatsrafael and the demon Krully not only talk to each other, but also establish an unusual friendship in six thousand years of working life.
It is said that there is also a copy of "Good Omens" in the Vatican Library, but when faithful believers see the passage of the devil carrying an angel or the two of them having dinner, they may be a little maddened.
If you ask me why I like the show "Good Omens," the first reason is definitely this pair of angelic demon CPs who have been secretly dating for 6,000 years.
At the beginning of the episode, the angel complains that the demon has tricked the human being out of the Garden of Eden while extending his wings to give him shelter from the rain, and he outlines the full base love between the gods and demons.
In order to coax the angels to be happy, the devil personally went out to help Shakespeare stand to sell tickets
Even when the final end of the world comes, the angel begs the demon to hurry up and find a way to say the most arrogant reason
The domineering president seems to be cold outside cold and hot rock Fan Devil X gentle and pure soft cute arrogant aristocrat Fan Angel in the play to continue to the book's official forced to die fandom of the inexplicable feelings, can be called angels and demons version of "The Best Ji Old Companion". Even my steel straight man, who usually sneers at the beauty of the novel, can't help but smile involuntarily when watching the drama in the face of Neil Gaiman's silent base plot portrayal.
Hurry up and get together, the ghost believes that you are just good friends, don't show love!