Neil Gaiman's talent is always undercut by his dated pandering to women. He's not as funny as Douglas Adams or as provocative as Garth Ennis. Gaiman is the prototype for hacky writers like Joss Whedon. For instance the casting to this show is so painful. Giving the narrator, Yahweh, a woman's voice is so cheesy. Traditionally the earth is a woman and the sky is a man but instead we get a M. Night Shyamalan twist that falls flat. Dialogue is suppose to be revealing but feels forced, unnatural, and revisionist. Like he's one sentence way from saying "lets see the men have the babies amiright???" When we get a break from the quasi-feminist nonsense the show is kind of charming.