Good Omens – The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives

By: Ariba Bhuvad

As the season finale of “Good Omens” begins, Crowley (David Tennant) is undergoing a trial in Hell for all the wrongful acts he’s committed against his own kind. Things aren’t exactly looking too great for him, but before we continue on with that we should head back to the end of the previous episode when everyone was gathered at the airfield.

Under the impression he’ll get everyone past the guard, Crowley starts walking up to him. But before he can do anything, Adam (Sam Taylor Buck), Pepper (Amma Ris), Brian (Ilan Galkoff) and Wensleydale (Alfie Taylor) go through the gates with no problem at all. Guess being the Antichrist has its perks! However, now that everyone is together things are about to get really, really intense.

Death (Brian Cox) tells Adam he has the power and ability to destroy the world. Meanwhile, Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) prepares to take down Adam, but the Madame Tracy (Miranda Richardson) within him stops him from hurting an innocent kid (even if he is the Antichrist). And it’s a good thing because Adam helps split up Aziraphale and Madame Tracy making things go back to normal once again.

As Anathema (Adria Arjona) and Newton (Jack Whitehall) try to take over the computers inside while everyone else is trying to handle things outside. Pepper takes down War (Mireille Enos) and steals her sword of flames from her. One after another each of the children take down each Horsemen except Death, whose very demise would bring about the end of the world. With the Horsemen gone and the nuclear warfare halted, the only thing left is the battle between Heaven and Hell.

Gabriel (Jon Hamm) and Beelzebub (Anna Maxwell Martin) show up to tell Adam that he needs to end the world, but it doesn’t seem like Adam cares for that much anymore. Let’s just say Adam’s father [a/k/a/ Satan (Benedict Cumberbatch)] is extremely pissed off that things aren’t going as planned. Before anything can happen Aziraphale, Crowley and Adam teleport somewhere else so a plan can be concocted to face off with Satan. It turns out there isn’t much of a fight after Adam tells his father that he doesn’t really care much for him. Satan just goes away and that’s the end of that.

Following these ridiculous events, Aziraphale and Crowley take a break and eat some ice cream. They deserve it after all, right? The International Express Man (Simon Merrells) shows up to take the flaming sword from them during their outing and returns it to its rightful place. Speaking of rightful places, Adam has managed to return everything to normal including Crowley’s car, Aziraphale’s bookstore, his friendships and even the love story between Anathema and Newton.

Newton and Anathema get an interesting delivery back in Tadfield that is addressed to Newton by Agnes Nutter (Josie Lawrence). Inside the box that’s delivered is a letter for the deliveryman and some more prophecies to look over. Anathema decides against doing anything with the prophecies and burns them instead, putting an end to a tradition dating back generations.

But what will come of Aziraphale and Crowley since they broke a lot of rules? Suddenly, the scene shifts to both of them on trial with Crowley’s punishment involving holy water while Aziraphale’s is to be burnt to death. But the joke is on everyone else because when the punishments are carried out nothing happens to either of them. It’s because they’re basically so powerful that nothing can really hurt them anymore. As a result, they’re set free but are still holding onto a huge secret.

It turns out that both of them switched bodies before their trials so nothing could happen to them when holy water and fire were used. Pretty genius on their part! It’s a cause for celebration, at least until the next big event anyway.