Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the Amazon Prime series, Good Omens, quickly gained a cult following after debuting in May of 2019. Contained in this story of looming Armageddon are explorations of grief, friendship, good and evil, the Bible, Milton, God and what it means to be human. This book provides thirteen essays that center on various aspects of the show, including theology, fan culture, female gaze, textual elements and more. Also examining Gaiman's sense of obligation to Pratchett, as well as the relationship between Good Omens and the hit series Supernatural, these essays provide a critical analysis of the show and its prominent themes.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
In the Beginning: Nice and Accurate Analyses of Good Omens
Erin Giannini and Amanda Taylor
Good Omens and Adaptation
Avoiding a Contemporary Apocalypse: Examining the Effects of Shifting Good
Omens from Its Cold War Context
Rhian Waller
God Is a Woman: Good Omens, Voice-Over, and the Female Gaze
Julia Vanessa Pauss
Ways of Mourning: Reading Grief as Friendship in Terry Pratchett and Neil
Gaimans Good Omens (1990)
Pavan Mano
Good Omens and Fan Culture
Okay, Crowley, Junior: Subversions and Transformations of Good Omens in
Supernatural and Its Fandom
Cait Coker
Fan Desire and Normative Masculinities in Good Omens Gift Exchanges
Mary Ingram-Waters
The Theology of Good Omens
In the beginning, it was a nice day: Aziraphale and the Subversive
Miltonian Angelology of Good Omens
Melissa D. Aaron
Eschatological Ambiguity in Good Omens: How Concerns for Survival Blur the
Lines Between Good and Evil
Morgan Shipley
Sola Fide: Ineffability, Good Omens, and the Reformation
Philip Goldfarb Styrt
This Angel, who is now become a Devil, is my particular friend: Romantic
Satanism and Loving Opposition in Good Omens (2019)
Alex Tankard
Naming, Artifacts, and Texts in Good Omens
Adams Task: Naming and Sub-creation in Good Omens
Janet Brennan Croft
The Book as Character: Tracing Textual Elements of Good Omens Across the
Novel and Miniseries
Tara Prescott-Johnson
Welcome to the end times: A Conclusion
Amanda Taylor and Erin Giannini
About the Contributors
Index
Erin Giannini served as an editor and contributor at PopMatters, and has written numerous articles about topics from corporate culture in genre television to production-level shifts and their effects on television texts. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Amanda Taylor works at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research interests include Supernatural, Futurama, science fiction, and posthuman theory. She lives in Southern California.
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