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![It's quite possible that 'Heaven Sent' is my best work - Doctor Who fans love that episode - but I think that there are many elements of this that stand alongside my best work."
There's also the issue of spoilers. Talalay ain't giving anything beyond the vaguest of teases. Season two ended with demon Crowley (DT) declaring his love for angel Aziraphale (MS), but Aziraphale deciding to go off to become Heaven's new boss instead, and usher in the Second Coming. So what happens next?
"I can't," she splutters. "It's very difficult for me to say much except this version is very much tilted toward pleasing the fandom from the standpoint of keeping it concentrated on Aziraphale and Crowley. Then allowing there to be a mystery, along with everything that's brilliant about the Good Omens book and mythology, which is Heaven and Hell, and religious concepts."
She does confirm, though, that the Second Coming does indeed happen.
"Bilal Hasna plays Jesus," says Talalay. "He's wonderful, utterly versatile. He was nominated for a BAFTA [for Disney's Extraordinary]. He's a relatively new actor with a meteoric rise - a fascinating, committed, versatile actor. So to be BAFTA-nominated at the same time that you're playing Jesus is a pretty good omen." Pressed for other titbits, she apologises for being so vague, but admits, "Michael, as Aziraphale, has a showcase scene that's a different type of showcase scene that is an absolute joy. He gets to really just eat it up. I'm really looking forward to, um, showing that off. It's terrible I can't say anything more to you. I’m sorry!”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxyl3lkwi36i5caw2nop2dry/bafkreidybj5ityz4xaelgjibop6cbbjikowxx5fhrg7q5ftxcrrx7eu7wi)
![So if we can't talk about plot specifics, how about the production side of things? When Talalay signed up for the final season, the intention was still to make six episodes.
"I was involved in taking it down to the 90," she confirms. "That was producer-driven to start with. There's something really, really great about the 90 minutes. I mean, of course I'm heartbroken that bits and pieces of the six hours will not be filmed. But at 90 minutes we can just focus on one incredibly strong story. Sometimes with six parts, you just go off [on a tangent] and it's fun, but often I hear people say, You know, I didn't like that episode as much because it wasn't really about (the main characters)
"Now, I love those random things, but we didn't have space for that. So it became a very much a cohesive story. People I've talked to who have seen the 90 minutes have said how brilliant it is that it became one really strong, cohesive story. So yes, I would have liked to have done the random bits and pieces of comedy. It's really random bits and pieces of comedy that dropped out for a story that concentrates on those things that I talked about - a really good, strong mystery, the Second Coming, and Aziraphale and Crowley."
While the finale may have new scriptwriters (Michael Marshall Smith and Peter Atkins) as well as a new director, the design crews remain largely unchanged, and Talalay is full of praise
"Kate Carin, the costume designer, is a complete genius. When the fans starts screenshotting each costume and saying, 'Oh, look, that little badge is from series one, or
'This is a throwback to that Scottish thing, - those kinds of Easter eggs, she particularly embraced that."
Talalay also liked the details in the costume that would go unseen if she didn't decide to highlight them, including a snake lining to one of Crowley's waistcoats. "I'm like, 'David, can you open your vest so we catch a piece of the lining?'"
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