Years ago I discovered Sir Terry Pratchett or "Sir Pterry" as he's known to his fans. He had a wonderful turn for the absurd and wrote a series of books known collective as "The Discworld". It was a world of magic, dragons and really colorful characters with a healthy dose of dry English wit and bloody great humor. Sadly he passed away several years ago and no more of his works would be released.

But years before he, along with comic book writer Neil Gaiman had a great partnership and wrote about the end of the world. From that we got the novel "Good Omens" with Sir Pterry's humorous side and Neil Gaiman's imagination and story telling and it was absolutely brilliant. It is still, to this day, one of my favorite books.

Talks had been in the works for years to make this into a movie but there's so much in it that they'd have to cut out large chunks of the story. The only way to do it justice would be a multi-part epic but they're not going to give hundreds of millions of dollars for this over four full length films to tell it so it just never got done. Until streaming services started making their rounds and they slowly became the place were new and interesting things would be shown. So from Amazon Prime of all places we get "Good Omens" the mini-series. And it's brilliant.

The story deals with two beings, One angel by the name of Aziraphale and the fallen angel Crowley who didn't so much fall as just slowly made his way down. They're here to prevent the Apocalypse because once it's done the Earth will be no more. Aziraphale will have no more lovely little book shops, nice restaurants where they know your name and Crowley won't have any more single malt scotch and the music of Queen.

Although through a comedy of errors the Anti-Christ gets handed off to a normal English couple while a perfectly normal baby is handed off to American diplomat and his wife. Yes, it's like "The Omen" but funnier.

The rest of the series deals with finding the true son of Satan and preventing the end of the world in the process.

Excellent acting, great actors and a top notch script makes this a mini-series that really needs to be seen.