A joint venture between Amazon and BBC Two, the Neil Gaiman adaptation “Good Omens” launched exclusively on Amazon Prime Video here in the States last month, and it’s the latest piece of entertainment to spawn a silly petition. But this one’s even sillier than the silliest of petitions, as 20,000 people have signed a petition asking *Netflix* to cancel the series!
Again, “Good Omens” is an Amazon series, and Netflix has nothing to do with it.
The petition, launched by the Christian-led Return to Order campaign, has been scrubbed from the internet in the hopes of avoiding further embarrassment, but the complaint was that “Good Omens” is “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable.” The petition had also noted that the series “mocks God’s wisdom.”
The petition continued, “this type of video makes light of Truth, Error, Good and Evil, and destroys the barriers of horror that society still has for the devil.”
“Good Omens,” a six-episode mini-series, tells a tale that follows a demon and an angel who seek to prevent the coming of the Antichrist and with it Armageddon, the final battle between Heaven and Hell. David Tennant stars as the demon Crowley, Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale, and Frances McDormand as the voice of God.
Gaiman himself responded to the petition, “I love that they are going to write to Netflix to try and get #GoodOmens cancelled. Says it all really.”
Let this be a reminder: not *everything* is made by Netflix, even if it may seem that way!
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