Supernatural Meets Terry Pratchett In Prime Video's 13-Part Fantasy Show

Published Aug 24, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT

While Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Twin Peaks had introduced the idea of cops tackling paranormal phenomena before The X-Files, neither series had the winning blend of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and straightforward police procedural plot ingredients that made The X-Files truly shine. In the years that followed, everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Grimm, Evil, Fringe, Lucifer, and Supernatural borrowed this style. Of all these shows, Supernatural did the best job of altering the setup of The X-Files just enough to feel fresh and original, but still familiar.

As the title implies, Supernaturar’s detective duo, Dean and Sam Winchester, focused not on extraterrestrials and other sci-fi threats, but rather on paranormal problems. In the show’s first few seasons, when its monster-of-the-week setup was at its strongest, the duo encountered every conceivable supernatural villain, from vampires to werewolves to shapeshifters to wendigos to ghouls to ghosts. As Supernatural continued, its escalating stakes introduced angels, demons, and God himself into the show’s story, resulting in a story that was more suited to the classic Prime Video comedy Good Omens.

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While a lot of Supernatural fans had fun with the show’s ever-increasing stakes and the escalating silliness of its plotting, both critics and longtime viewers also voiced frustration at the shift in tone that accompanied the show’s later seasons. Major main characters were repeatedly killed off and revived, which stripped the series of its stakes, while an apocalyptic battle for the fate of the world itself overshadowed any more small-scale monster-of-the-week plots for seasons at a time.

While a goofier show like The CW’s Legacies might have been able to pull this off, Supernatural felt tonally haphazard as the series abandoned its original style in favor of a more grandiose religious fantasy plot. In contrast, since the show was a tongue-in-cheek comedy from the beginning, Good Omens was far better suited to handling these existential themes with quick wit and a lighter touch.

Like Supernatural, Good Omens focuses on a pair of male protagonists as mismatched as they are perfectly paired. Michael Sheen’s angel Aziraphel and David Tennant’s demon Crowley forge an unlikely bond when the duo find out that the Antichrist is inconveniently close to bringing about Armageddon. Since they have grown to enjoy the comforts of life among humans, the duo must put their differences aside to ensure this doesn’t happen.

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What follows is a dizzying ensemble cast story that sees a string of guest stars play the many humans, archangels, demons, and supernatural beings who get in the way of their plan. While Good Omens occasionally has some level of tension, the show’s tone is mostly closer to the Discworld novels of its original co-author, Terry Pratchett, than the angst of Supernatural.

Since it’s aware of its inherent absurdity from episode 1, the show’s playful dismissal of a religious apocalypse doesn’t feel as jarring as it did in Supernatural. Like Pratchett’s Discworld books, Good Omens infuses Aziraphel and Crowley’s story with easy humor and a sense of detachment that justifies its literally apocalyptic stakes.

Unfortunately, the other co-author of the book that the series is based on, Neil Gaiman, was accused of numerous serious crimes in 2024. This resulted in the third and final season of Good Omens being shortened down to a one-off special, meaning the Prime Video show’s ending was just as controversial as Supernatural’s infamously divisive coda.