Hey! Hallie here!
I’ve been surprisingly quiet about ‘Good Omens’ season 2, which is very strange for me because this is by far my most anticipated project of this year. ‘Good Omens’ is one of my favorite books and likely my favorite television show of all time, so there’s very little that could keep me from wanting to see this next season. And the more hints and trailers we get, the more excited I am! I haven’t really talked about any of it since the New York Comic Con panel last year but there’s a lot to catch up on and speculate about. So if you don’t want any information on season 2 or its plot, I would recommend looking elsewhere. I’m going to be putting everything together that I know about the season, including deep dives into the trailer and details given in interviews. We even have the entire intro of the show to look at! Let’s try to figure out what we’ll see on July 28th!
Gabriel: When season 2 was first mentioned Neil Gaiman told us the story would start with an angel wandering into Aziraphale’s bookshop without their memories. From all the promotional material we now know the angel is Gabriel, which doesn’t bode well for heaven. In fact, the entire tagline for the season has been “Something’s going down in the up,” which REALLY doesn’t bode well for heaven. Other posters have invited viewers to “unravel the mystery”. Amongst clues as to what happened to Gabriel, we have a poster of three cups forming three different images. A teacup has a halo hovering above it in steam, a wineglass spills out in the pattern of horns, and a mug’s steam forms the shape of a heart. Though some have been confused by the presence of the mug, which was Aziraphale’s mug in season one, we’ve seen other posters with Aziraphale holding the teacup and Crowley holding the wine glass. It is Gabriel we see holding the mug in the trailer. So what could that mean? Is Gabriel turning into a cupid-like angel? Well, Gabriel seems to know just as much about that as the audience. The full clip we saw released for the new season consists of Aziraphale in a panic while trying to figure out what’s going on with Gabriel. In the scene a clueless and naked Gabriel mentions that he has a feeling something terrible happened to him, but his lack of memory and short attention span ruin Aziraphale’s attempts to get answers out of him. He does say that he knows it’s the reason why he had to come to Aziraphale’s bookshop and give him a delivery, but he hasn’t given Aziraphale any delivery and doesn’t remember anything about it. In other posters we’ve seen Gabriel appear in human clothing with a duster, apparently helping out in Aziraphale’s bookshop. So it looks like Gabriel is going to spend a lot of the season under Aziraphale’s wing, so to speak, until Aziraphale can figure out what’s happening with him.
Trailer: The entire trailer for season 2 also focuses on Gabriel. In the trailer we see Crowley get intel from the new demon stationed on earth, Shax, that Gabriel’s gone missing and the angels are trying to find him. We even see Liz Carr as Saraquel using the replica of the globe Aziraphale uses in the first season to look for him. From the trailer it looks like the new angel stationed on earth, Muriel, is sent down specifically to find Gabriel. Very much like Gabriel in the first season, she comes down to Aziraphale’s bookshop with no knowledge of humans and accidentally forces Aziraphale to pretend everything’s normal while she plays the role of an old timey police officer. Because of the scene only attendees of New York Comic Con were shown, we know that her meet up with Aziraphale gets quickly interrupted by Crowley’s sudden appearance. But when she reports back to Uriel and Michael (Left in charge while Gabriel’s gone?) as seen in the trailer, she mentions seeing Aziraphale, Crowley, and Aziraphale’s bookshop “assistant” who she doesn’t recognize but is clearly Gabriel. As is implied in the next scene, where Aziraphale closes all his windows and reveals Gabriel to Crowley, who screams in surprise when he sees him. The rest of the trailer sets up Aziraphale and Crowley as the protectors of Gabriel while they try to figure out what happened to him and return him to the way that he was. Amongst a few very interesting shots of Gabriel’s eyes turning back to the deep purple color he has as an angel and a statue of Gabriel as an angel, we see Crowley actually go up to heaven disguised as an angel with Muriel evidently in on the plan and helping him out. In the NYCC panel Muriel was talked about quite a bit, and given the brief scene in the trailer where we see her looking very uncomfortable in an elevator alongside Michael and Uriel, it makes sense that she would join Aziraphale and Crowley’s side.
Heaven vs Hell: Though this has been a smaller theme in the promotional content we’ve seen for the upcoming season, this does seem like it will play a major role in the new season. Shax, played by returning actress Miranda Richardson, appears to be friendly with Crowley. She delivers him his mail, attempts to sign off on his bills for him, and acts as his informant concerning whatever’s going on in Hell. But in posters we see her amongst other demons in what appears to be armor. Meanwhile, Aziraphale has a message thrown through his window in the trailer that amusingly reads “surrender the angle”. He even states in the trailer that he thinks his actions, presumably on behalf of Gabriel, may have started a war. And on top of all of that, the beginning of the released opening credits see Aziraphale and Crowley walking directly into what appears to be Hell. It does make sense that Hell would try to take the opportunity to take power while Heaven is at their weakest, and given how much Hell and Beelzebub are featured in promotional content, I think it would be unwise to think the only problems Aziraphale and Crowley will be facing this season are internal affairs in Heaven.
Aziraphale and Crowley: Now let’s get to what we all are really excited for. The Ineffable Husbands. Firstly, there has been a leak regarding the storyline of these two. I wouldn’t recommend seeking it out. I was half-spoiled in that I know what the leak was but I didn’t see the screenshot that was circulating. Neil Gaiman was very upset by this leak and I completely understand why. I think it’s important to leave this to your first viewing experience and let it play out as it was meant to be played out. All that said, I won’t be discussing what that leak was here. I will say that their story for this season surrounds romance, something Neil has pointed out himself. And I think we all know who the romance is between. First there’s the trailer, where Gabriel explains the instinct he has to be near Aziraphale because he feels safe with him without knowing why, a feeling Aziraphale immediately ties to Crowley. Then there’s the opening credits that seem to hint at their future relationship with the two seen sitting on top of Aziraphale’s bookshop while hearts are raining down around them. We also know famous romance novelist Jane Austen will be brought into the story in some way. Maybe playing into the portions of the story that take place in the past? Regardless, I do think Gabriel will be playing a role in all this, mostly because of the heart-shaped steam we saw coming out of his mug earlier.
As for the two characters individually, Crowley looks to be experiencing the most changes after facing the repercussions of last season. In a few moments in the trailer and in one recent image of Crowley, we see his belongings, particularly his plants, shoved in his car. We also know from the scene we were given between him and Shax that Shax expects his mail to now be delivered to his car. I think it’s fair to assume that Crowley, now no longer being provided money from Hell, is living out of his car. But in the scene NYCC fans saw, his plants were being moved into Aziraphale’s bookshop. And we also have confirmation from Neil Gaiman that we’ll be seeing more of Aziraphale’s living quarters in the bookshop this season. There’s not a lot of doubt in my mind that Crowley’s going to be moving in with Aziraphale, and I think that’s going to make their dynamic very interesting. As for Aziraphale, most of the promotional content concerning him has to do with Gabriel, though we do know that magician Aziraphale is coming back at least. What I’m most interested in when it comes to Aziraphale are the promotional images of Aziraphale presumably around the time he bought and began to run the bookshop. In the very least we know we’ll be getting Aziraphale in the past as he explores the Soho street he winds up living on. I’m very interested to see if Aziraphale’s motivations for running a bookshop are revealed.
Other Important Things: First, there’s the box. Along with the angel without memories, Neil Gaiman has been telling us about the importance of a cardboard box since the announcement of season 2. My guess is the box is the same box we saw in a poster released a couple months ago, which happens to be a shipping box with Aziraphale’s, Crowley’s, And Gabriel’s feathers floating out of it. What that means I have no idea, but I am suspicious that this box is the same box that holds Gabriel’s delivery for Aziraphale. What’s inside it is clearly very important, but I don’t think we’ve seen many hints for what that could be yet. Then we haven’t talked much about Nina and Maggie, two characters who are now partially responsible for giving the Soho street Aziraphale lives on some new life. We’ll be seeing the entire street and establishments on both ends of it this season, including a coffee shop, owned by Nina, and a record store that Aziraphale acts as landlord of, owned by Maggie. These characters are heavily featured together in posters, but only appear briefly in the trailer to react to strange weather patterns. All we know is that Nina’s love life will play a major role in both of their stories. Maybe more romance is in the air? Last but certainly not least, let’s talk time and space travel. Neil has talked about both in interviews, and we already know we’ll be seeing more of Crowley and Aziraphale in the past like in the cold open for episode three of the first season. We also know based on a few images of Gabriel in posters and the historical paintings the Good Omens Instagram account has been editing Aziraphale, Crowley, and Gabriel into, that we will be seeing Gabriel in the past as well. As for space, in the opening credits for the new season we see a lot of planets and stars shifting around. But I don’t think we’ll be seeing Crowley and Aziraphale running away to Alpha Centauri this season, so we’ll have to see what role space plays in all this.
There are many, many more details I could get into, and possibly will before the start of the show, but I have to put an end to this post for now. I’m unbelievably excited for July 28th! We should be getting the entire season on the same day just like the first season, but I haven’t been able to find an official announcement about the way they’re releasing episodes. I’ve even seen larger websites reporting that episodes are coming out weekly, though there doesn’t seem to be any agreement between larger geek sites on this either. For now I think it’s safest to go by the posters and expect the entire season on the same day. I know my plan is to binge watch the whole thing as soon as it drops. I’m dying to see Crowley yell at people to stop feeding ducks bread in context. We only have three more weeks to go but it feels like it can’t come soon enough!
Don’t do anything fun until I get back!
Hallie
Oreos & Peanut Butter 