The ending of ‘Good Omens’ explained: is Armageddon stopped for once and for all? 

Spoilers ahead!

Good Omens has come to an end with a one-off 90-minute special, but is Armageddon stopped for once and for all? Find out below.

The show was created by Neil Gaiman and was based on his and Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel of the same name. A co-production between Amazon MGM Studios and BBC Studios, it premiered in 2019 with its first season and returned in 2023 for season two.

However, after production on the third season was halted in 2024 after Gaiman was accused of sexual assault by two women – claims that the writer has strongly denied. Later that year, it was announced that Good Omens would instead conclude with a feature-length single episode.

That special premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 13, and you can check out the trailer here:

Last year, David Tennant, who stars alongside Michael Sheen in the show, spoke about Gaiman’s departure from the show, which was brought about after further details of alleged sexual assault emerged against the writer.

“We’re doing Good Omens again. We’re going back to do the final. We’re doing a final. There’s been a slight rejig with the personnel,” Tennant said. “But we still get to tell that story – I think it would have been very difficult to leave it on a cliffhanger. So I’m glad that’s been worked out.”

The ending of Good Omens explained: is Armageddon stopped for once and for all?

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The threat of Armageddon once again dominated the Good Omens story going into its final special.

Sheen’s angelic Aziraphale and Tennant’s demonic Crowley have spent thousands of years on Earth and while they represent opposite sides of the war between Heaven and Hell, they realise in season one that they do not want the world to end. They prevent Armageddon by helping the Antichrist reject his destiny. In season two, the Second Coming becomes imminent, and by the end the pair are left divided, leaving the world seemingly teetering on the edge.

In the finale, Aziraphale begins enacting the Second Coming, but while searching for the missing Jesus he instead finds Crowley and the two reconcile. After events involving the Book of Life, Michael and Uriel, Crowley and Aziraphale become the only beings left in existence, aside from God and Satan.

They ask God to create a new universe with no angels, demons, Heaven or Hell, but with humans possessing genuine free will. God instead erases the universe entirely.

In another universe, the human professor Anthony Crowley meets bookseller Asa Fell, and, 20 years later, the two are happily married and living together in a cottage in the South Downs. They are content, no longer consumed with cosmic questions about the universe beyond their own world.