This has to be the best series I've watched in the past year, I just loved it. It mostly shows the lives of Aziraphale, an angel tasked with guarding the Garden of Eden and Crowley, a demon who started on earth as the snake that tempted Adam and Eve with the apple, originally called Crawly. They have been working so long, 6,000 years doing opposing deeds that at some point they have a discussion and decide that if they both stop trying so hard, things will stay about even, which I found hilarious, if not a little far fetched, but it is british humor.
Aziraphale answers to a group of angels every now and then, led by Archangel Gabriel, and it is just funny how an angel who has existed for eons is kind of goofy and lame. Crowley answers to Beelzebub but everyone in hell just seems a little slow, and Crowley is a fast talking scammer type. He finds ways to weasel out of doing any real work. One of his biggest responsibilities was to deliver the Antichrist to a couple having a baby, but shenanigans ensue, of course. After this, there is nothing to do but wait for the Antichrist to turn 12, which is when Armageddon is supposed to ensue. Adam, the earth name for Satan's son is not reared by the people who would have made a mess of him, important political types, instead, he is raised by loving people in a small town, so it becomes hard for him to hone his evil as he should, even his hell hound which is sent from Hell to protect him is somehow pacified and made into a normal pup through happenstance.
There is an arsenal of extras ensuring the end of the world is avoided, such as Witchfinder Sergeant Chadwell, who is a witch hunter on the verge of losing his mind, Anathema Device, a witch who can foretell the future with letters from her dead witch relative. Newton Pulsifer, who joins Chadwell and becomes a witch hunter, but falls in love with the only witch he ever meets. On the other side, the evil guys are well represented by the four horsemen: Death, Famine, War, and Pollution, who has replaced Pestilence, who retired after the discovery of penicillin.
The series is only about six episodes, so it does not drag on for a long time. It is just long enough to see the angel and demon friends in different scenarios through time, such as at the French Revolution, where Aziraphale is imprisoned as a traitor. When Crowley asks him what he is doing in France, he meekly says he was hungry and really wanted French crepes. I guess I just love the humor coming from two who should be enemies, but in the end, they are watching out for each other as they realize both heaven and hell do not care about earth, they want war. The two of them have been on earth so long, it is a place they both love and will protect.
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