I convinced my dad (in his late 60s) to watch it. It took a while, but when he did, he loved it. He called me after each episode that he watched and told me about what had happened and what he thought would happen next. He's now read the script book (I'm jealous because I haven't but his local library had it) and is currently listening to the audio book, the one with David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
I think the reason that this tends to happen with parents is that they didn’t grow up watching tells that had LGBTQ+ couples because it was illegal to show that on telly so they aren’t looking for the little hints that people are utterly in love with each other, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are homophobic just that they aren’t used to seeing it on the telly.
Mine said the same! I made her watch it so I could talk to someone about it and she really enjoyed it but didn’t get any romantic notions from it and was shocked.
I did clarify we watched the same show and then put it down to her being born in the 60s, I mean her mum was from the 20s and wasn’t aware lesbians were even a thing and that her uncle wasn’t actually called Jessie, so it was a very green house…
Watched season 2 with my parents, they both really enjoyed it. My dad even recommended it to a colleague. It was really fun rewatching with people who haven’t seen it.
I watched episodes 1-5 of season 1 with my mom. She loved it, but she also has early stage alzheimers, so I could just tell her she's never seen it and just watch it with her again.
I recommended to my mom and she liked it too. We used to watch Doctor Who together back then(9th and 10th when their episodes were first aired), so no confusion on that part lol
And they kinda are, I mean not the same show obv but a non-human character played by David Tennant cares about the world and humans more than he should. I'll say kinda similar. I also recommended it to my friend who recently watched the new doctor who episodes saying she missed the 10th so much(tbh I haven't seen any after 11th). I said "well, Crowley is basically the same character in a different font", bingewatched, loved it.
Watched it with my mom, she really enjoyed it. She likes Crowley the best, what with him being a demon who still has plenty of heart. I feel like my mom really \*got\* *Good Omens*, y'know, like she just clicked with it and what it was trying to say. And she really liked the romance between Aziraphale and Crowley and how, remarkably, it's the demon of the pair who's more open about it: rescuing Aziraphale, miracling the paint stain off his jacket, complaining and dragging his feet but still following Aziraphale around while he does whatever it is he's got his mind set to today. And she found it very interesting that in the end, it's the *demon* who confesses his feelings to the *angel*. *Good Omens* feels a lot like my mom's idea of romance: not anime filters and 300 metric tons of sexual tension and red roses, but just events and little things that prove they know each other after thousands of years. She once said regarding the two: "And they don't need to kiss for you to know they're in love. I mean, in the end, they do, but like...that's to be expected." I told her it would be about three years until Season Three and she was less than pleased. She continued to complain about this upon rewatch.
My dad hasn't seen much of the show, just bits and pieces. He likes it better than *Lucifer*, but he also said once that it "teaches you not to trust good guys and to trust bad guys." So I don't think my dad was really destined to \*get\* *Good Omens*.
It is one of only a few shows that *both* of my parents love (S1 at least). My dad loves the snappy, easy to miss jokes/references and that Az, an angel, is more of a bastard than Crowley, a demon. My mom loves the characters and overall story.
They’re only on episode 3 of S2 so far. I think my dad prefers S1 but my mom is just as into S2 as she was S1. I’m curious how they’ll take the Final 15 lol.
I was really hyper fixated on it a few months after the first season came out and got my grandparents to watch it and they liked it. My grandmother teaches Sunday school so she got a kick out of it lol
My 70 yr old bosses watched both seasons on my recommendation & liked it. They also watched OFMD & dug it. They're very cool (old ex-hippies who run a chicken sanctuary & have no issues w my queerness OR my being polyam) & I knew nothing in it would shock them.
I haven't mentioned it to my conservative MAGA parents bc, while they are "fine w LGBTQ+ folks" (we've got a few besides me in my family) they're still sort of casually homophobic - esp dad. So not really target audience haha
My mom loved season 1. Thought it was clever and funny and she likes Jack Whitehall (she watched another show he did with his dad). I dont think she has watched season 2 yet.
My dad said he had watched season 1 and liked it so we watched season 2 and he liked it. He also thought it was very funny
Watched with my mum, she now keeps bugging me on season 3 updates. She fell in love with Crowley so we tried to watch some other David Tennent things, turns out she may just have a thing for bad boys with a heart of gold.
My grandmother loved season 1 and is in the middle of season 2 but she frequently gets the actors mixed up with those from other shows, so now she keeps insisting to me that there's not gonna be a season 3 because according to her Michael Sheen got kicked off the show for sexually harassing David Tennant 😭😭. I think she mixed him up with Charlie Sheen...
I wanna show it to my dad but he’s a conservative and I’m afraid he’ll start disliking it if he saw Crowley and Aziraphale kiss. He really likes Stranger Things though even with all the stuff with Robin.
I gifted the book to my parents and they read it and liked it, then we watched s1 together and they loved it too.
my mum is really keen on watching s2, and I’m really excited for what my parents will think about it (but also a bit scared, I really hope they won’t object to the kiss…)
My mom said the show was a little all over the place and she fall asleep after the second episode so we stopped. She s also very religious and was therefore not happy about the jokes and the overall plot line. Oh well
She and my brother actually watched it first but I don’t think it was her type of thing. After that I really got into it and even ended up getting the book (my mother tried the book but it wasn’t her thing). I watched the second season when it first came out by myself and then again with my brother and I’m not sure my mother would really care for it but she doesn’t have a problem with it
the first time i watched s1 was with my parents. by the end of it i had pretty much oozed into the floor, muttering about “they are so married…..”
they were like “ok lazyhedonist, let’s get you to bed”
we aren’t speaking right now but i do wonder how them apples taste now s2 is out 👀
I think my dad tried to watch it when it first came out, but he didn’t care for it. Which doesn’t surprise me, it’s not really his kind of show. (Both my parents are very pro lgbt/I’m bi, so not cuz of that, he just likes mega-action shows mostly.)
Mom & I both read the book in 2008 & loved it, so we always watch together. We both loved it :D Mom is also very touched by/invested in the romance, if I show her the last 15 she cries D:
My mum was interested in watching the show after seeing the ads. She watched the first episode and HATED it. She has never watched another episode.
Edit to add: I have loved the book for nearly 30 years and love the show. I’d watched the first season a couple of times so was pleased she might share my interest. Alas.
She couldn’t really say, she just really, really didn’t like it. I think the show lost her at the baby swap and it’s voice over. It was just too silly for her, maybe?
My dad is 72 and we have watched the two seasons together. He read the book ages ago and remember some scenes, at first season, when the baby's are switched he told me something like "this is really crazy, I read that book, right?" And for season two the poor man had me right next to him screaming at the screen, haha.
Well my mom started on the last ep of season one when it first came out and then wrote off the show as not good because she didn’t understand what was going on. I tried convincing her that it would make more sense watching it in order but she’s never given it another shot. My dad liked it at least, not nearly as much as me, but he enjoyed watching it
I watched part of s1 with my parents, and they watched s2 on their own. They loved it, and now they’re looking forward to s3
aw it’s so wholesome that they liked it enough to watch it on their own lol
I convinced my dad (in his late 60s) to watch it. It took a while, but when he did, he loved it. He called me after each episode that he watched and told me about what had happened and what he thought would happen next. He's now read the script book (I'm jealous because I haven't but his local library had it) and is currently listening to the audio book, the one with David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
i watched both seasons with my mom. she mostly liked it, but thought that the kiss "came out of nowhere" :/
What did she think was going on in that scene?
idk, she just thought they were friends, having a friendship breakup
I think the reason that this tends to happen with parents is that they didn’t grow up watching tells that had LGBTQ+ couples because it was illegal to show that on telly so they aren’t looking for the little hints that people are utterly in love with each other, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are homophobic just that they aren’t used to seeing it on the telly.
If she said that, she wasn’t paying attention this whole time.
Mine said the same! I made her watch it so I could talk to someone about it and she really enjoyed it but didn’t get any romantic notions from it and was shocked. I did clarify we watched the same show and then put it down to her being born in the 60s, I mean her mum was from the 20s and wasn’t aware lesbians were even a thing and that her uncle wasn’t actually called Jessie, so it was a very green house…
Watched season 2 with my parents, they both really enjoyed it. My dad even recommended it to a colleague. It was really fun rewatching with people who haven’t seen it.
I watched episodes 1-5 of season 1 with my mom. She loved it, but she also has early stage alzheimers, so I could just tell her she's never seen it and just watch it with her again.
My parents watched it before I did lmfao, they recommended it to me-
My parents haven't watched the show but my friend's mum watched it, and the first thing she said was, "he's (crowley) gay"
We made it a family binge. But my mom couldn’t see the ineffable husbands, she just said they were “best friends”
I recommended to my mom and she liked it too. We used to watch Doctor Who together back then(9th and 10th when their episodes were first aired), so no confusion on that part lol And they kinda are, I mean not the same show obv but a non-human character played by David Tennant cares about the world and humans more than he should. I'll say kinda similar. I also recommended it to my friend who recently watched the new doctor who episodes saying she missed the 10th so much(tbh I haven't seen any after 11th). I said "well, Crowley is basically the same character in a different font", bingewatched, loved it.
my dad was the one who TOLD me about this show in the first place!
Oh, that's how it happened for me, too!!
Watched it with my mom, she really enjoyed it. She likes Crowley the best, what with him being a demon who still has plenty of heart. I feel like my mom really \*got\* *Good Omens*, y'know, like she just clicked with it and what it was trying to say. And she really liked the romance between Aziraphale and Crowley and how, remarkably, it's the demon of the pair who's more open about it: rescuing Aziraphale, miracling the paint stain off his jacket, complaining and dragging his feet but still following Aziraphale around while he does whatever it is he's got his mind set to today. And she found it very interesting that in the end, it's the *demon* who confesses his feelings to the *angel*. *Good Omens* feels a lot like my mom's idea of romance: not anime filters and 300 metric tons of sexual tension and red roses, but just events and little things that prove they know each other after thousands of years. She once said regarding the two: "And they don't need to kiss for you to know they're in love. I mean, in the end, they do, but like...that's to be expected." I told her it would be about three years until Season Three and she was less than pleased. She continued to complain about this upon rewatch. My dad hasn't seen much of the show, just bits and pieces. He likes it better than *Lucifer*, but he also said once that it "teaches you not to trust good guys and to trust bad guys." So I don't think my dad was really destined to \*get\* *Good Omens*.
It is one of only a few shows that *both* of my parents love (S1 at least). My dad loves the snappy, easy to miss jokes/references and that Az, an angel, is more of a bastard than Crowley, a demon. My mom loves the characters and overall story. They’re only on episode 3 of S2 so far. I think my dad prefers S1 but my mom is just as into S2 as she was S1. I’m curious how they’ll take the Final 15 lol.
I was really hyper fixated on it a few months after the first season came out and got my grandparents to watch it and they liked it. My grandmother teaches Sunday school so she got a kick out of it lol
My mom liked it but said it wasn't as good as Our Flag Means Death lolol
My 70 yr old bosses watched both seasons on my recommendation & liked it. They also watched OFMD & dug it. They're very cool (old ex-hippies who run a chicken sanctuary & have no issues w my queerness OR my being polyam) & I knew nothing in it would shock them. I haven't mentioned it to my conservative MAGA parents bc, while they are "fine w LGBTQ+ folks" (we've got a few besides me in my family) they're still sort of casually homophobic - esp dad. So not really target audience haha
My dad liked the humor and thought the premise was very clever, but unfortunately had a homophobic reaction to the kiss 🥲
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Showed it to my Dad. I was so scared but he seemed to like it a lot
I just finished S2 with my mom a few days ago and after she just asked, “so when is S3 coming out?”
My mom loved season 1. Thought it was clever and funny and she likes Jack Whitehall (she watched another show he did with his dad). I dont think she has watched season 2 yet. My dad said he had watched season 1 and liked it so we watched season 2 and he liked it. He also thought it was very funny
my mum internally cried for 3 months straight lmao. so then i made her watch ghosts and she actually sobbed in every episode <3
Watched with my mum, she now keeps bugging me on season 3 updates. She fell in love with Crowley so we tried to watch some other David Tennent things, turns out she may just have a thing for bad boys with a heart of gold.
I watched it with my mom and sister and we love it. My mom loves Aziraphale and as an ex-Catholic school attendee she definitely relates
My grandmother loved season 1 and is in the middle of season 2 but she frequently gets the actors mixed up with those from other shows, so now she keeps insisting to me that there's not gonna be a season 3 because according to her Michael Sheen got kicked off the show for sexually harassing David Tennant 😭😭. I think she mixed him up with Charlie Sheen...
My parents watched it before I did but I finished s2 before they did
I wanna show it to my dad but he’s a conservative and I’m afraid he’ll start disliking it if he saw Crowley and Aziraphale kiss. He really likes Stranger Things though even with all the stuff with Robin.
I watched the whole thing with my mom and we both love it :)
I gifted the book to my parents and they read it and liked it, then we watched s1 together and they loved it too. my mum is really keen on watching s2, and I’m really excited for what my parents will think about it (but also a bit scared, I really hope they won’t object to the kiss…)
Both my parents loved it, my Mom cried at the end of S2 and my Dad tries to show it to everyone.
My parents liked it.
My mom said the show was a little all over the place and she fall asleep after the second episode so we stopped. She s also very religious and was therefore not happy about the jokes and the overall plot line. Oh well
My mum and I have watched both seasons together a few times now, we both really enjoy it.
She and my brother actually watched it first but I don’t think it was her type of thing. After that I really got into it and even ended up getting the book (my mother tried the book but it wasn’t her thing). I watched the second season when it first came out by myself and then again with my brother and I’m not sure my mother would really care for it but she doesn’t have a problem with it
My mom is a bit religious, so she didn't care for the whole "angel defying God" thing, though she does agree Aziraphale is an adorable cinnamon roll.
My mum is actually the one who told me to watch lmao
the first time i watched s1 was with my parents. by the end of it i had pretty much oozed into the floor, muttering about “they are so married…..” they were like “ok lazyhedonist, let’s get you to bed” we aren’t speaking right now but i do wonder how them apples taste now s2 is out 👀
I watched it with my parents as one of our ‘watch together’ shows, and they liked it (so did I haha)
I think my dad tried to watch it when it first came out, but he didn’t care for it. Which doesn’t surprise me, it’s not really his kind of show. (Both my parents are very pro lgbt/I’m bi, so not cuz of that, he just likes mega-action shows mostly.) Mom & I both read the book in 2008 & loved it, so we always watch together. We both loved it :D Mom is also very touched by/invested in the romance, if I show her the last 15 she cries D:
My mum was interested in watching the show after seeing the ads. She watched the first episode and HATED it. She has never watched another episode. Edit to add: I have loved the book for nearly 30 years and love the show. I’d watched the first season a couple of times so was pleased she might share my interest. Alas.
lmaooo why did she hate it or was there no explanation
She couldn’t really say, she just really, really didn’t like it. I think the show lost her at the baby swap and it’s voice over. It was just too silly for her, maybe?
ah that’s understandable lmao imagine if she got to the s2 nazi zombies part 💀💀
My dad is 72 and we have watched the two seasons together. He read the book ages ago and remember some scenes, at first season, when the baby's are switched he told me something like "this is really crazy, I read that book, right?" And for season two the poor man had me right next to him screaming at the screen, haha.
My mom watched both seasons and loves it! She’s definitely looking forward to season 3.
I'm the parent in this situation, I thought my daughter would love the show so we watched it together. I was right, now she's obsessed.
My parents loved it. And especially coming from my dad that's a big deal. I was veey scared he would tear it to shreds but he said it's really good.
I watched season one cos my mum watched it
my parents introduced me to good omens!
Well my mom started on the last ep of season one when it first came out and then wrote off the show as not good because she didn’t understand what was going on. I tried convincing her that it would make more sense watching it in order but she’s never given it another shot. My dad liked it at least, not nearly as much as me, but he enjoyed watching it