The two lead actors bring so much swaggering mischief to this Neil Gaiman-created series you’d think they’ve been working together for ever. Sadly, the rest of the show has run out of ideas
Sheen and Tennant, Tennant and Sheen. David Tennant and Michael Sheen’s double act is so well honed they parody it in BBC meta-comedy Staged. It feels as if they have been together for ever, but their on-screen partnership only dates back to 2019 and the first season of Good Omens.
Fans of the 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett waited decades for a television take on the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley, working together to avert Armageddon in a world where heaven and hell are petty bureaucracies and the universe’s strongest force is flawed humanity. With Gaiman in charge of the series, the book’s vision had been rendered well enough, but all the magic was in the casting of two lead actors with similar sensibilities – a swaggering mischief built on sharp consonants and glinting intellect.
