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jlpmghrs4 Apr 15, 2026 +230

Why are they still calling it season 3? Isn't it only one episode?

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keving87 Apr 15, 2026 +173

Yeah, weird of Amazon to still call it a season after they cut it down to a 90-minute movie. It's basically a series finale special.

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jlpmghrs4 Apr 15, 2026 +68

I never bothered with season 2, especially after... the reason this is 1 episode

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benkalli Apr 16, 2026 +24

You honestly did not miss much. It really should have been a one-off.

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Wompguinea Apr 16, 2026 +19

From what I was reading at the time, season 3 wouldn't have worked without season 2 to set it up. This probably needs a whole season to be worth it. He really fucked us over on this one.

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CollinsCouldveDucked Apr 16, 2026 +4

Not really, season 1 is enough.

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HumansNeedNotApply1 Apr 16, 2026 -21

Amazon* fucked us over. They were the ones who decided to do this.

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Love-That-Danhausen Apr 16, 2026 +17

Don’t blame Amazon for Neil Gaiman being a sex pest. Even if they could’ve made it without him and everyone understood, he deserves all the blame in this situation.

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HumansNeedNotApply1 Apr 16, 2026 -28

He's not a sex pest though. The thing is this show was a 'bordeline' renewal, so it wasn't worth any possible mediatic headache for the big corporation, easy decision to just cut losses, even more when they had changes at leadership.

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Love-That-Danhausen Apr 16, 2026 +11

He’s literally been accused of r*** and sexual assault by more than one woman.

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HumansNeedNotApply1 Apr 16, 2026 -14

I'm not sure what the number of accusations got to do with anything, the proof he did anything criminal is lacking. You want to blindly trust people? That's fine. I don't.

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behold-my-titties Apr 15, 2026 +25

They do the same thing with the Grand Tour Specials, got there own season for singular episodes, I don't get it, just makes the shitty ui more awkward to navigate

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CollinsCouldveDucked Apr 16, 2026 +2

They'll spend a bazillion dollars on shows to draw people in but god forbid they spent a percentage of that to fix the f****** ui. Similar issue at paramount, just DUMPING money into paramount plus content, have the worst app in the game.

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GenGaara25 Apr 16, 2026 +8

I assume it was a contractual thing, it's all I can think of. Season 3 (as a season) was greenlit before the Gaiman stuff, all the crew and the main cast, I assume, had signed contracts for a third season. And I'm guessing that if they hired everybody for a "season" then kept calling it a "movie" then there could be some legal trouble they're trying to avoid. Contracting and paying people for one thing, while actually getting them to do another. So their work-around, to cover their asses, is to officially consider it and market it as a season of tv, but it's a season consisting of exactly 1 episode.

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FlapJacker6 Apr 16, 2026 +4

Definitely confusing, but as far as organizing it all on a website I kind of like it. All in one place.

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Shagtacular Apr 16, 2026 +11

Amazon is notoriously terrible at organizing their streaming service. Glad you like it, but you're pretty alone

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FlapJacker6 Apr 16, 2026 +1

Not saying I like Amazons layout. Just the idea of framing a finale episode as a final season.

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7thFleetTraveller Apr 16, 2026 -1

I wonder, when they decided to continue, was it a budget decision to shorten it down like that? Or could they still just have made it a full season with a different author? Sorry to bother if that kind of info was already published before, but I only learned about the whole thing when I found the trailer today.

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rattatally Apr 15, 2026 +78

I thought it was cancelled.

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RuPaulver Apr 15, 2026 +179

Only in the sense that it's being cut short, but it's nice that they decided to still give it an ending. Not everyone else's fault that Gaiman sucks.

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somebodyonce Apr 15, 2026 +109

Yeah f*** Neil Gaiman and thankfully the Terry Pratchett estate took over

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slysmile Apr 15, 2026 +52

They should keep the production crew and continue with Discworld adaptations. David Tennant for Vetinari? Anyone?

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ChickenInASuit Apr 16, 2026 +22

Tennant would be a better fit as Moist Von Lipwig, IMO. If we’re fancasting former Doctors as Vetinari, I prefer Peter Capaldi.

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apple_kicks Apr 16, 2026 +5

Too old for moist but right age for young wizard

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postmodest Apr 16, 2026 +4

Young Michael Sheen would've been a perfect Moist von Lipwig. Tennant lacks the everyman-look that Moist should have. Tennant _always_ looks like a scoundrel.

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cybishop3 Apr 16, 2026 +25

Charles Dance made a good Vetinari once, but he's getting a bit old for it now.

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kf97mopa Apr 16, 2026 +7

Vetinari got really old at the end of the books, though. Could totally do Night Watch with him as the old Vetinari, for instance.

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Rustash Apr 16, 2026 +7

Did they? Does that mean I can watch this guilt-free?

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noname9889 Apr 16, 2026 +21

Look at it this way. The show is over with this and isn't gonna get renewed, Neil has been paid whatever he's been paid, and I doubt he's getting paid per view so there really isn't anything that upping that view count will affect in regards to him.

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somebodyonce Apr 16, 2026 +5

I think Gaiman still wrote the script. It might be worth sailing for this though.

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__Pendulum__ 6 days ago +1

As much as I want to watch it for Sir Terry's (GNU) estate, money and partial credit will still go to Neil Gaiman. I just can't do it :(

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DimensionMediocre439 Apr 16, 2026 +4

No, but what was the excuse for season 2 in general? Cause boy was that a huge letdown.

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The_Meemeli Apr 16, 2026 +6

Season 1 fully adapted the book. Gaiman and Pratchett has discussed a sequel book plot at some point, but only a vague outline. The show creators decided to adapt said sequel plan, but felt they first needed an in-between season to setup and bridge the events. That was S2.

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beyondimaginarium Apr 16, 2026 -21

>Not everyone else's fault that Gaiman sucks. Of all Hollywood dregs, hes no where near the worst.

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zahren Apr 16, 2026 +7

This pile of shit is smaller than that pile of shit. Well that's great, but I don't want to eat either of them. That there are bigger pieces of shit elsewhere, doesn't somehow make what Gaiman did okay.

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beyondimaginarium Apr 16, 2026 -8

How do you have the energy?

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zahren Apr 16, 2026 +8

To not want to support people with seemingly valid accusations of sexual assault? It's actually very easy if you care about that sort of thing.

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__Pendulum__ 6 days ago

"\[There are others worse than he, so give him money attention and adulation\]" Yeah, hard pass

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beyondimaginarium 6 days ago

Lol wat

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somebodyonce Apr 15, 2026 +15

No it's still releasing. I'm excited to see the end though.

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m_Pony Apr 15, 2026 +7

Same. The story and the actors and the crew all deserve to see a proper ending.

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GenGaara25 Apr 16, 2026 +3

The planned season was cut down to a 90 minute movie to wrap it up. Although they keep calling it Season 3, it is only a single 90 minute finale.

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woolsocksandsandals Apr 16, 2026 +1

Thought so too. Isn’t someone involved in this a raper or something?

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The_Meemeli Apr 16, 2026 +4

The co-author of the book and the show's writer has been accused of some very bad things, yes. Basically only reason this finale is happening is because of the other author's estate, IIRC.

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__Pendulum__ 6 days ago +1

And, although innocent until proven guilty, his public defence didn't pass the sniff test. He paid off women, and after championing himself for years as a male feminist and #believallwomen, his first public statements after the accusations could be summarised as "bitches be crazy". I'm sure his PR team started drinking very heavily after that swing and a miss. I find the accounts against him much more credible than his defence. And seeing the DNA for his true views on women in his literary works made me get rid of all my copies of them very fast. There's a recurring pattern in his works about women lacking agency in the presence of powerful men. It irked me when I read them, and knowing the accusations against him now I supress the urge to vomit at the thought of reading them again. The Good Omens novel is the only remaining work in my collection that partially bears his name. And that's only because of Sir Terry's (GNU) name on the cover. I'm glad he didn't live to see what sort of man his friend really was.

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PistachioDonut34 Apr 15, 2026 +44

I'm so glad they made this despite everything but I really hope it makes sense and doesn't feel too rushed. Squeezing an entire season into a movie is so hard to do and i really really don't want it to be terrible.

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behold-my-titties Apr 15, 2026 +18

I think it'll fit well as a film, I thought season 2 really dragged in a lot of places, I still really enjoyed it but I tend to fall off when rewatching. Season 1 is just *chef's kiss*

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mattXIX Apr 16, 2026 +36

May 13th is the release date since I don’t see anyone else saying it

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MalleableCurmudgeon Apr 16, 2026 +7

I appreciate you.

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TroyFerris13 Apr 16, 2026 +13

Thumbnail had me wanting to dig through the ditches and burn through the witches

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thutruthissomewhere Apr 16, 2026 +7

What about wanting to slam in the back of your dragula?

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Johnny_Blaze_123 Apr 15, 2026 +29

I gave up on this on season 2. never finished. Loved season 1.

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behold-my-titties Apr 15, 2026 +25

Season 2 dropped hard in writing and production quality imo. I still enjoyed it, but it's largely forgettable.

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DingoFrisky Apr 16, 2026 +3

It made me realize I just want to see 95% our protagonists just hanging out and 5% story. Season 2 really went hard on silly plot and less on them just hanging.

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PastimeOfMine Apr 16, 2026 +4

Reading both of their writing over the years I've always said they may have come up with the story together but it was Pratchett's writing and style that made Good Omens great. Seeing season 2 only reinforced that for me.

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AEveryDayIdiot Apr 15, 2026 +12

Loved season one and remember it so well but can’t remember season 2 at all. F*** you Gaiman

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PeculiarPete Apr 16, 2026 +6

I loved the first season and failed to get into the second season twice.

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Mecca_Lecca_Hi Apr 16, 2026 +3

I read the book 20 some years ago and told myself I’d read it again before the show came out because I couldn’t remember most of it. I did the same for American Gods before it came out. Except this time I still haven’t read it or watched the show. Someday!

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TheJedibugs Apr 16, 2026 +8

Please remember that, despite not being directly involved in the production, Neil Gaiman will still get paid for this. And he'll use that money to try to bury the accusations against him and the women who made them.

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somebodyonce Apr 17, 2026 +2

Arrr matey I'm actually not sure how that works in streaming. He was already paid when they made it. Does he get residuals over viewership?

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__Pendulum__ 6 days ago +2

I believe he would still get residuals. I respect the choices of those who do continue to watch/support this. It's their life, I'm not their parent or legal guardian. Even if it was somehow 100% divorced from a predator, it's a time and emotional investment in the work that has his DNA in it. Time is the most valuable resource we have, and I personally choose not to give him any more of it.

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logosobscura Apr 17, 2026 +2

Got paid. He would have been terminated for cause, so not the residuals (if he had any), just unfortunate he can’t be excised from history. Everyone else involved in this series- hundreds of people who worked diligently in good faith, do deserve their bow. Every village has an idiot, some have a total gaping a******, and fewer still have a manipulative b****** like Gaiman who cover everything else in their filth.

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TheJedibugs Apr 17, 2026 +2

Unfortunately not the case at all. He wasn’t terminated, he stepped back willingly so that it wasn’t scrapped altogether. He’ll have already been paid for the script and, as co-owner of the IP, he will be entitled to a negotiated percentage of any money it brings in, probably in perpetuity.

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logosobscura Apr 17, 2026 +3

Sometimes things are termed in press releases to make it sound more mutual than it is. ‘Stepping back’ is one such idiom. Simple commercial truth: they wouldn’t be screening if he didn’t relinquish, it would be more tax efficient to write the entire production cost off against tax and then suing him in every jurisdiction they could to beat every single red cent out of him, given what they’ve lost. Most likely: they talked to the unions, talked the Pratchett estate, then went to him- sign over all your rights for a nominal fee, we’ll pay you out of your contract, you get to say you are ‘stepping back’ or others reducing involvement without admitting any fault or alluding to the cause, we will not air anything for at least 12 months, then we will take what is in the can, broadcast and promote it, and guarantee the backend for the remaining cast and crew. Given that he would have been having the same conversation with Netflix, and facing numerous lawsuits from victims, his legal team would have told him to take the peace, or you’ll get ripped apart by feral lawyers in every jurisdiction without any support from the WGA (who won’t defend personal issues like, IDK, alleged sex trafficking). Corporations aren’t fair, they aren’t noble, but they absolutely would never allow a future headline like ‘Convicted sex trafficker is getting paid in prison by Amazon’. Ever. It’s thermonuclear risk, and risk is the enemy of profit. The tell? They’re actively promoting this final send off. That’s them continuing to spend, as well as all the post-prod, that means they feel that risk is handled.

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TheJedibugs Apr 17, 2026 +1

You’re making a lot of assumptions, and I applaud you for your optimism… but that’s just not so. There’s 0 chance that Gaiman sold off his rights. He leased them to Amazon and Amazon only keeps them for as long as they continue to be making content with that license. After a set number of years, the rights revert back to him. Whatever his payment arrangements are will not have been altered or taken from him. You also make assumptions that the victims would be suing Amazon over this? Absolutely not. They have nothing to sue over, no standing and no claim on anything to do with this. You also seem to think that Amazon somehow actually cares about what Gaiman did. They care only insofar as it hurts them financially. As the creator, producer and showrunner, Neil Gaiman had to make the decision to step back from the show. The chances that Amazon are contractually able to fire him from this particular show and make it without him are pretty slim. I haven’t read the contract, obviously, but in this case it is most likely that their only recourse would be to just not make the thing at all. That they can do with no issues. But Gaiman stepped back in order that the show would still happen. Not because he wants to make sure the fans get their conclusion, but because he benefits financially if the show is produced. Not as much as if he could still be involved, but more than if it doesn’t happen at all. And since he’s lost a lot of income via canceled projects due to being exposed as a sexual predator, and the money he is paying lawyers and PR firms to try to make it go away, he’s in a position where he can’t just walk away from a payday Willy-nilly.

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Certain_Caregiver734 Apr 16, 2026 +2

So still only one episode? Or did they change their mind hence calling it season 3

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The_Meemeli Apr 16, 2026 +3

One episode

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Mikhaillobo2701 Apr 16, 2026 +2

All of this in one episode????

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CMDR_omnicognate Apr 16, 2026 +1

Why's the audio all weird?

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RiversofJell0 Apr 18, 2026 +1

Second season was a boring mess. Really liked the first season though. Maybe third will be alright but won’t be in a rush to watch it

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jay_alfred_prufrock Apr 16, 2026 +2

Maybe without Gaiman's influence it won't be a Tumblr fever dream this time.

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MrFiendish Apr 16, 2026 +1

Pratchett is dead, and Gaiman is a monster. Why are we talking about this show?

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SonOfThomasWayne Apr 16, 2026 -9

Sorry, have these two made a statement on Gaiman?

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HumansNeedNotApply1 Apr 16, 2026 -7

There's nothing to say though. What we currently have avaiable is very feeble evidence that mostly point at worse Gaiman being a manipulative/bad lover, all police investigations and even the civil trials so far went nowhere.

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TheJedibugs Apr 16, 2026 +9

Nearly a dozen women all independently painting a picture of the same vile behavior over a period of decades is not "feeble evidence." He has, in essence, admitted to nearly everything he is accused of but with the caveat that it was all fully consensual. And yet, Gaiman fully admitting to engaging in sexual activity with women over whom he held power (as an employer and landlord, respectively) is an admission that consent does not really matter to him, as consent under those terms is not true consent. Even taking him at his full word, the things he admits fully run completely counter to the public image he has cultivated over the decades. At a minimum, it is clear that his public persona is a lie. And if that persona, which is his best case for benefit of doubt, is a lie... well, then all the accusations become that much more believable. And on a personal note, let me just tell you: I was a Neil Gaiman fan from the early 90s, when I started reading Sandman (while it was still being published). He was my absolute favorite author for decades. But my best friend is one of his accusers. One of the first. And over a year before ANY of this came out publicly, she confided in me her experience with him. She was unburdening deep and painful trauma. I assure you, there was no dishonestly in her account. And that account includes out-and-out r***. Sex not just without consent, but in the face of explicit NON-consent. I doubt that'll change your mind. But maybe hearing from someone with personal knowledge of the situation will make you see it in a different light. One can hope.

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__Pendulum__ 6 days ago +1

After the accusations, you can't help but notice multiple times in his works a theme of women losing their agency in the presence of powerful men: Laura in American Gods, Yvaine in Starust, so many in Neverwhere, Rosie in Anansi Boys, Nada and Calliope in The Sandman... I feel like throwing up remembering more examples. His DNA, and (accused) true self is there in his works. I can't read them anymore knowing it.

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