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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Kind of good news, at the same time they completely changed the premise of the show and have basically been flogging a dead horse. Radcliffe in sequin assless chaps definitely made up for it though!

[-] Xkok@lemmy.one 21 points 11 months ago

You're thinking of Miracle Workers, not Good Omens.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

You're absolutely right, Good Omens has a similar Christian premise but is going far stronger. I was thinking the other show had already milked a 3rd season!

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Huh?

The first season was literally about heaven...

But each season is different.

The sequin assless chaps are season 2 when it's a western, and season 3 is Mad Max where Harry Potter gets down to his whitey tighties and goes feral

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Season 2 was the middle ages, season 3 was the western. Mad Max is season 4.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Somehow I also basically forgot about season 2 and only remembered 3 and 4.

All of them are completely different from season 1, though, and I don't think seasons 2-4 were originally planned to be that way.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's what I mean, Miracle Workers started with one premise and then just did something completely different after it ran that premise dry in one season. That's not entirely a bad thing (it would no doubt have been worse if they'd tried to stretch out the original show) but the later seasons were never all that great and you could never feel all that attached to it knowing that they would just refresh everything every season. The 3rd season was pretty much milking in it dry.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Miracle Workers started with one premise and then just did something completely different after it ran that premise dry in one season.

That's a weird way to describe an anthology series....

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago

That's not what it started as, though. That's what it became after season 1.

Season 1 had a very specific pitch that was captivating. Seasons 2 & 3 were just the same actors in different settings.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Seasons 2 & 3 were just the same actors in different settings.

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

You're being facetious and ignoring my point. Seasons 2 and 3 were anthology, but season 1 wasn't. Season 1 was completely different, for starters they were all characters in heaven, while 2 and 3 were just people on earth. Hell, even the IMDB description only covers season 1:

A comedy set in the offices of Heaven Inc. When God plans to destroy the Earth, two low-level angels must convince their boss to save humanity. They bet him they can pull off their most impossible miracle yet: help two humans fall in love.

They ran out of material at the end of season 1 and recycled the show into something else. Now, it's an anthology show, but it was never intended to be that at the outset.

[-] ArtificialLink@yall.theatl.social 3 points 11 months ago

Is it based on the book still or no?

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Theyve exhausted the source material now, but Gaiman is all for it continuing

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Season one is based on the book, season two is still co-written by Neil Gaiman and is apparently based on an idea that he and Terry Pratchett talked about for a sequel, and I have no idea about season three lol.

[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Season 3 will be something Neil thinks up while on the Can!

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I’d rather read something he wrote while on the can than what most authors consider their very best work.

[-] livus@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Season 3 is what you just described as season 2. Season 2 is a sort of in-between one Gaiman came up with.

[-] Treczoks@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Season one is based on the book. Season three is based on the sequel Pratchett and Gaiman had planned together, but never fully written or published. Season two is a bridge to fill some gaps written by Gaiman alone.

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