Is Good Omens Cozy?

12/26/23 • 28 min

How do you make the end of the world funny, comforting and downright delightful? This episode we look at the world of Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens book and TV show adaptation and its view of humanity as a whole.
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Sources:
Good Omens- Neil Gailman and Terry Pratchett
Adapting Revelation: Good Omens as Comic Corrective- Amy Lea Clemons
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/148125942
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-omen-1976
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/revelation/8
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/26/archives/the-screen-omen-is-nobodys-baby.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Revelation-to-John

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Sources:
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/tragedy/v-1/sections/from-aristotle-to-rome
https://www.thecollector.com/greek-heroes-hubris/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26809403
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Greeks and Geeks - Is Good Omens Cozy?

Transcript

Hello and welcome to Greeks and Geeks, the podcast where I (your host Sabrina) take us on a persnickety but fun journey deep diving into the lore behind our favourite stories. Today we’ll be looking at Good Omens and asking ourselves the question- how do you make the end of times, the revelation, the apocalypse, cozy? And I will also be asking myself if, by the end of this podcast script I’ll actually be able to spell the word apocalypse the first time around. Probably not but it’ll be f