Every day my mind realises just how seriously and deeply devastating that final episode of good omens was. I don’t even mean devastating in the bad way, but in the way where it makes you feel REAL feelings, when you can feel your heart sink with frustration and compassion. Idk i might just be an overly emotional gal but this is my thank you and well done note to you. Not many people have the ability to create a story so fictional yet SO real. Thank you <3
You are so welcome. That was what we were all going for: to make people feel real feelings.
I’m glad that people are responding to it like this, too.
The only other things on a screen that have ever made me cry like Good Omens season 2 did were:
- seeing Harry & William at Diana’s funeral
- what happened to Assumpta on Ballykissangel.
Not kidding when I say it made me full chest cry at 1am for a solid ten minutes, and then randomly start blubbering again for 24 hours afterwards. Job very well done indeed 🙌
The hero shows up at the villain’s doorstep one night. They’re shivering, bleeding, scared. There’s also a slightly dazed look in their eyes– they were drugged. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly as they’re close to passing out, they mumble “…didn’t know where else to go…” then collapse into the villain’s arms.
I’ve been wondering at her relevance. I put a post up a bit ago about the signs at her front door that rang honking great foreshadowing bells: “Come Upstairs” and “No pairs. One only. Be Brave” on a wall surrounded by stars. Not to mention they now have a “New Model” with “Friendly Hands” up there.
In the party, she says something to Aziraphale that made my brain jangle because of all the meta that I’ve been eating: [her girls] stand on their own two feet. Initially I thought this was a sex-work joke, but there’s the fact that at the beginning of the season, both lads are completely co-dependent, especially Crowley who talks about “my only friend”. By the end of the season, the boys are separated and they will be forced to stand on their own two feet for the first time since 2500BC.
Throw into the mix that God’s department is always referred to as “upstairs” and Mrs Sandwich is the only person shown coming down from an upstairs to a ground level that has a chandelier, much like Aziraphale’s bookshop also has a chandelier on the ground floor, directly over his contact point with the almighty.
“I don’t know why you invited me,” she says and Aziraphale makes a point that she’s part of their world, even if she feels she’s separate from it. Then you have the seamstress conversation and yes, maybe she is a brothel madame, but the fact she can’t say what her actual role/position is has very ineffable vibes to me. A convenient way to mask her real identity/purpose.
When Crowley walks her out the party, he says “Have you got your hand in?” and she replies “Oh, I’ve got more than that, love.” which would track for the person who was playing three-card monty with the universe. Since they’re so careful with their dialogue, between all of this and her calling Crowley “a good lad”?
Add the fact that her “girls” upstairs can tell when Nina is unhappy when making coffee and that one of the drinks she orders almost matches the order by the Metatron, who has professed to consume human food/drink. His version has almond syrup instead of hazelnut and almond is symbolic in the bible for watchfulness and promise of a new season. (However, interestingly, some Biblical translations of hazelnut and almond mean the same thing)
And what is a sandwich if not two separate sides with something in the middle?
I… suddenly out of nowhere realised the Metatron said about Crowley ‘always wanted to go his own way, always asking questions’…. And oh. OH. OH!!!
Crowley said about Job: ‘he’s talking to God!’ With such wonder. And then Aziraphale went ‘I don’t think he’s getting any answers’ and Crowley goes ‘just to be able to ask the questions though’
Which means Crowley never got to ask his questions to God! He probably tried and probably got the same voice Aziraphale got when he tried in season 1! *points to Metatron*
… that fucker pushed Crowley, didn’t he. He’s the reason Crowley fell. He even walked in the bookshop in that new body of his and made it a point to *check* if Crowley remembered. Which Crowley deflected same as every prod from heaven all season, which Metatron took to mean he didn’t, so he was safe to start up his malicious plan.