David Tennant and Michael Sheen on Good Omens: 'It's hard to see what's offensive'

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David Tennant and Michael Sheen on Good Omens: 'It's hard to see what's offensive'
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'It's hard to see what’s offensive, because if it has a message. It's about the diversity of human experience and where we can all meet in the middle' 🎙️ GabrielTate1 interviews David Tennant and michaelsheen

) searches for one final shot at redemption. It is both forking fun, and by its climax, packs a genuine emotional punch, although its repeated resets, delight in its own cleverness, and studied broad-church approach meant it ended up being about karma as much as anything else.takes its lead from those Frank Capra and Powell/Pressburger masterpieces in addressing the mechanics of the afterlife, but goes further by daring to depict heaven and hell as equally unappealing bureaucracies.

Crucially, Good Omens democratises the asking of big questions, without condescending to offer answers . Free will, for example, as practised by an 11-year-old antichrist who chooses his comfy, unremarkable Home Counties life over his destiny. Or moral absolutism, stymied by Aziraphale and Crowley when they challenge their masters about an Armageddon triggered purely to prove who’s best, by noting that God’s ineffable plan is, by its very nature, unknowable.

The series is written by Neil Gaiman, who also wrote the original book with the late Terry Pratchett

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