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This Japanese children's anime loosely based on Rick and Morty is not produced by Williams Street, Harmonious Claptrap, or Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions. This is a different show entirely. This Japanese Anime production is not as complex or as violent as the Adult Swim US show it is based on. Many watched a dialog reduced English dub turned into teasers posted to the Adult Swim YouTube channels, and have been critical for all the wrong reasons. The demographic for this Japanese production is Japanese speaking children, not US adults. It is a sad commentary on things when a foreign production is maligned by those who think a simple children's show needs to be written for them.

While I can appreciate the effort of the director and writers put in to establish the correct tone for this picture, ultimately it is less "Alien" and more "Friday the 13th".

One of the issues I had (ignoring that just anyone in this picture can grab a ship and take off into orbit) was with the complete unlikability of the characters. At no point was there an effort to make a bond between them and the audience, and as each one faced their demise, I had yet to decide who I was siding for, the crew member or the alien.

It wasn't until the android character "Andy" was given some development, that I started to appreciate the charm that actor David Jonsson was able to bring to the role. Make no mistake, the only interesting character in this haunted house flic is Andy the android, except for one major error; when for zero reason the android utters one of Sigourney Weaver's best lines. It's jarring, it's stupid, and incorrect for the context.

Unfortunately that wasn't the only flaw. The director made the same mistake that we saw in "Alien Resurrection", the birth of a non-Geiger human form Alien. Without the insectoid grace and originality of the original Geiger, the humaniform creature comes off as a "slenderman" homage jammed into the wrong franchise. The creature is so laughable, it may have been wise to have ended the picture just before this non-climatic final climax. This was made worse when the ship decided, apparently on it's own to dramatically change course and destroy itself. No explanation is given for this unbelievable plot point, so I would assume a major scene had to be cut out and this was what remained. I didn't care what happened at this point. Neither did the director apparently, because it is a completely unoriginal, almost shot for shot recreation of Alien's climatic ending. Not an improvement, but a tired, unworthy rehashing of a better movie's ending.

I was once gifted a free ticket to spend time in person with Neil Gaiman at a small event. When I refused this gift, my friend was puzzled: "But you love that genre!" he said. I replied "Yes, I do, but I've read the man's work." Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors, unless Neil Gaiman is involved. Gaiman's work is usually praised by those that love his stuff, but if you are like me and think his style is pedantic, uninspired and dull, you can't make it very far into his books before being so bored you eventually forget you tried reading it.

Gaiman also fancies himself as a screenwriter, but he knows nothing of visual medium. If a story of his can be purchased for the screen and the producers can manage to keep Gaiman away from the project, it's not too bad (see first season of American Gods or the first season of Lucifer). If however, Gaiman starts making decisions such as the firing of said producers so that he can be in charge, it's a disaster (see the second season of American Gods.) When Gaiman becomes showrunner, you can skip watching the show entirely because it will be such a mess you'll think all entertainment is the stupider for his involvement (see The Sandman or Anansi Boys).

Not even the brilliance of Terry Pratchett can prevent Good Omens from being poisoned by the ever increasing involvement of Gaiman and his dreadful visuals, pathetic screen dialog, and scene transition failures.

That being said, watch Season 1, episodes 1, 2 and 3, then stop; You'll get the surviving best of Pratchett before it falls into the depressing, dank dullness of Gaiman's self indulgent tripe. As for Season 2 and 3, they diverge entirely from the book. Neil Gaiman, who co-wrote the book with Terry Pratchett, created new elements for the TV series, so, while the first season loosely followed the book, subsequent seasons are entirely original creations by Gaiman himself and should be entirely avoided.