{"id":23150,"date":"2019-06-07T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=23150"},"modified":"2019-06-06T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T02:19:12","slug":"prepare-thyself-for-a-hilariously-witty-irreverent-apocalypse-in-good-omens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=23150","title":{"rendered":"Prepare thyself for a hilariously witty, irreverent apocalypse in \u2018Good Omens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-07-Good-Omens-television-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-07-Good-Omens-television-poster.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-07-Good-Omens-television-poster-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By MARK VIOLA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t often review television, but when Amazon Prime delivers a superb adaptation of one of my favorite books, I have to make an exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGood Omens,\u201d published in 1990 by Neil Gaiman (\u201cCoraline,\u201d\n\u201cStardust\u201d) and the late Terry Pratchett (\u201cDisworld\u201d), tells the hilarious and\nirreverent tale of an angel and a demon attempting to put a stop to Armageddon\nbecause they\u2019ve grown attached to the world and would prefer to not see it end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Amazon series, which made its debut last Friday, totals\nsix episodes and is one of the most accurate adaptations I\u2019ve ever seen, both\nwith the story itself as well as its tone, which I can best describe as Douglas\nAdams\u2019 \u201cThe Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy,\u201d but with angels, demons and\nwitches instead of aliens (although they too have a very brief appearance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accuracy can be attributed to Gaiman, who not only\npenned all six episodes but also served as showrunner, fulfilling Pratcher\u2019s\ndying wish to have the book adapted into the visual medium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Sheen (\u201cMasters of Sex\u201d) and David Tennant (\u201cDoctor\nWho\u201d) are absolutely perfect as the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley,\nrespectively, who have known each other from the literal beginning. They are\nboth assigned to keep an eye on the Anti-Christ, but through a mix-up, nobody\ncan seem to find the young boy. If Aziraphale and Crowley want to stop\nArmageddon, they only have a week to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The show may be a bit too quirky for some, and a bit too\nirreverent for others, but there is a lot to like, although this may be one of\nthe very rare instances when I can say that fans of the original book might\nlike the adaptation more than newcomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MARK VIOLA I don\u2019t often review television, but when Amazon Prime delivers a superb adaptation of one of my favorite books, I have to make an exception. \u201cGood Omens,\u201d published in 1990 by Neil Gaiman (\u201cCoraline,\u201d \u201cStardust\u201d) and the late Terry Pratchett (\u201cDisworld\u201d), tells the hilarious and irreverent tale of an angel and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1227],"class_list":["post-23150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-television-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23152,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions\/23152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}