s01e03 — Hard Times

Oh, how nice it was to watch at the beginning of the series, Koda Kroli (or rather Crowley) and Aziraphale worried and cared about each other. And how painful it was to watch when they were fighting at the end of the episode.

The funniest thing was that the opening credits were released only about the middle of the hd series

Crowley bouncing in the church 😂
So far, everything is so wonderful and in the spirit of the book, delight :) That's what happens when one of the authors is himself and the showrunner.

No, just think about it. If Noah had listened to the demon, then we would still have unicorns!
And what kind of hair Tennant has at this moment!

I officially declare that the first half hour of the series is the best.
Aziraphale and Crowley interacting with each other is so cute, I just can't. The episode in the church is just a bomb. Just think about it: the demon jumped on the holy land just to get the angel out of trouble. Then I also saved his books. No questions asked. And the angel later brought holy water to him, so that only he would not get into trouble in vain. Cool stuff.
I also want such a friendship for myself.

And most importantly: It was Mark Getiss! Long live Mycroft Holmes, working under the cover of a German spy!

Rhys Shearsmith as Shakespeare :3 pleasantly surprised

Oh my God, there's Mark and Rhys, the whole league is here.

The reincarnations of Crowley and Aziraphale are something.
It's a pity that the unicorn ran away.... At the moment with Shakespeare, the Doctor smelled a little))

A British TV series without Mark Gatiss is not a British TV series hahahaha

The way the creators competently ran through all the eras, showing the development of not only the world, but also the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley is art

Tennant and Sheen are just a direct hit in the images, there is such chemistry between them that every scene with them attracts attention, you catch their every move, I can't get enough of this duet! It's good that there are 3 more episodes ahead.

How do Crowley's glasses get delivered :) One of the variations was reminiscent of Da Vinci's Demons, worn by Riario.

I loved this episode SO MUCH!!! especially the first half of it)
a lot of amazing moments
with Jesus
- What was it he said that got everyone so upset?
- Be kind to each other.
- Oh, yeah. That'll do it.
Reincarnations of heroes through the epochs, at first simple "colleagues" in the workshop, when we stand side by side, but we are not friends, no, no, no, then slowly they begin to help, create "miracles", save from prisons and from the Nazis))) Well, then you can go to restaurants) It's so interesting and funny.)
This little moment has sunk into my soul:
- "Anthony"?
- (worried)You don't like it?
- No, no, I didn't say that. I'll get used to it.
And the books saved after the explosion, uhhh, and the music was so soulful : D "Little demonic miracle of my own."

And how Crowley dragged Lennon's style into the 60s!! Then my inner beatleman collapsed. And there was also a reference to "Witchfinder Sergeant Pepper"

And finally
, "Eating Chow can help you to lose weight, hair and kidney functions. May cause anal leakage. Enjoy your meal."

"So we're both working very hard in damp places and just cancelling each other out? Be easier if we both stayed home."
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"Oh, he''s not my friend. We've never met before. We don't know each other."
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"What's for lunch?"
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"Out of question! It would destroy you! I'm not bringing you a suicide pill, Crowley."
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"Oh, the books! I forgot my books!"
"Little demonic miracle of my own," romantic music starts playing in the background as Aziraphale looks at Crowley in awe.
Кроули, влезший в церковь (!!), чтобы спасти Азирафеля. Я просто <333 И как отыграно. И этот костюм! И эта шляпа! Я абсолютно влюблена.
Гэтисс тоже так внезапно вылез :'))
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"After everything you said?" aka "After all this time?" "Always."
"Perhabs one day we could... I don't know. Go for a picnic. Dine at the Ritz."
"I'll give you a lift. Anywhere you wanna go."
"You go too fast for me, Crowley."

All the looks & the music. They're so gentle & loving with each other. And the natural chemistry. And they're breaking my heart, too.

И, да, титры в середине серии ну прямо очень здорово разделяют происходящее и очень вхарактерны. Вот их история. И вот происходящее в настоящем и далее. :) Я немножко умираю с этих отношений. Вроде и шипперю, а вроде и просто настолько органичны они, как друзья. Одно наслаждение именно от них.
И, господи, где ещё увидишь длинноволосого Дэвида, с рыжими кудрями и косичкой в них? Gorgeous.

"I wrote a book about a pirate who became a detective")))) I was pleased with the reference, and Gatiss was pleased)
And of course, the first half of the series is forever in my heart. <3> Thanks to Gaiman (judging by his post on the toggle switch, this is his personal mini-spinoff)))

Aziraphale kills me with his charm, but the holy water in the thermos just blew me away!

credit reference to Indiana Jones

This episode broke my heart just three times, if not four times.

Thanks to the series, I was once again convinced of how annoying people sometimes are who haven't read the original source, but they better know how everything should have been shot.

So that's what a rainbow means. The Lord just reminds us that everything is normal, he's not drowning anyone and it's just rain.

I urgently need a spin-off about the adventures of Crowley and Aziraphale during these 6,000 years!
I just can't imagine how it was possible to assemble such a dreamcast! The chemistry between Aziraphale and Crowley is such that you can stand or fall.
The scene with holy water got into my soul even while reading it, it's great that the film adaptation doesn't deviate much from the original source!

I'm sorry, but I think I just watched a gay drama.

it seemed to me that after a proper amount of thematic content, nothing would surprise me anymore, but God knows (and the devil too) — the scene with the thermos, the subsequent conversation and "you go too fast for me, crowley" is the most gay thing I've seen in my life.

The series is very unusual.
But it delivers absolutely everything. Sheen and Tennant just got together perfectly in a duet.
Love definitely

The Tenth Doctor met Shakespeare again. This episode has a very strong Doctor Who vibe)

Maybe someone has already asked, I don't understand, but where did the third child go? :)

Oh, again, a new collection on ficbook to create :God, we all need a spin-off about the adventures of Crowley and Aziraphale during these 6,000 years. It's great, though, that new things are being added to the series that make it a more multifaceted and authentic work and still leave it with the status of an adaptation of a book, rather than a series "based on a novel." Let's hope that Neil will return to "American Gods" and do his best, otherwise their plot didn't really progress during the season, and the inserts "from himself" were not particularly interesting.

It's funny, when Crowley approached the car (after talking about the robbery), how the camera at one point showed only Tennant and the police box.

I thought there would always be a good angel and always a bad demon in this series.
BUT THANK GOD NO
They balance things so competently and interestingly here: the angel lies (well, more precisely, he doesn't tell his superiors), and the demon practically empathizes with Jesus.
BRILLIANT

I'll probably review this episode later, when nothing will distract)) The best so far.

The best episode, my God, there is no limit to happiness!!!=3

The series is good, I really liked the backstory. Ahah, you're still sitting like this, watching, and then at the 30th minute the screensaver abruptly, unexpectedly

Damn, they shot the scenes of the past so well, especially the Roman era. Because of the quality of the footage, it feels like I'm watching the first Monty Python movies.

I hope this doesn't look like blasphemy, but at the moment when they were standing next to Jesus and one asked the other what he was being punished for, the other replied he wanted the best for everyone (or something like that), I just laughed, it kind of looks cruel, but it's so funny.

For those who didn't get the Crowley joke./Crowley:

Crawly - Creeping
Crowley - The Crow

Sir Pratchett is full of such ambiguous jokes based on a play on words that cannot be translated literally.
By the way, in British farming jargon Crawly also means rooster, which adds laughter to native speakers..)))

Crowley's glasses - as a separate art form))

They copy media characters (and they're not very popular with us, for example, which makes me happy). Mb is my pen, but by the 20th minute Tennant looks just like Warren Zivon.
It's a great plot twist, and religious flirtations are absolutely not offensive or obscene.

With the British communal apartment, everything is clear, but damn, how happy it is to see Vincent from the Ancients! The actor is a talent.

It's like I don't have anyone else to hang out with :):):)

It was an amazing episode, a delight!

An amazing series! The first half hour is in the very heart

@Raventree: Yes, that's him

"What are you doing here?"
- I am engaged in incitement!
- Are you cooking?

Very gay, love it

An amazing series! And to hear from the Antichrist: "brilliant", it's a thrill)))))

A very high-quality series - the atmosphere, the shooting, the screensaver, the musical accompaniment, the cast, the plot twists (although familiar from the book, but no less good, humor - everything is harmonious, sometimes crazy, but how cool!

"Register with the most reliable 1xbet bookmaker" on the background of the crucifixion of Christ - no comments. I'm looking from the Cubes.

which voice acting is the most successful?)

I laughed like hell at all the references to the Doctor and Sherlock, IT'S WONDERFUL, I don't want this series to end.

The final soundtrack on the credits in this series is simply gorgeous.
The theme is the same, but twice as fast and with a bunch of cool extras.

I really like the lightness of the series and the presence of Tennant in it.

Anathema is a beautiful character 😌
when she first arrived, she was wearing such strict clothes, but now she looks like a witch

I don't believe the Almighty's upset with the Chinese. Or the Native Americans.
🤦‍♂️
It is terribly interesting to know who non-native Americans were in 3004 BC and why Americans, if Amerigo Vespucci was born four and a half thousand years ago.

It's so nice to watch Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship. They're such darlings

They're so cute! Their friendship is something. And, oh yes!, how painful it was to watch the quarrel, but how sweet it was that Crowley suggested Azerafel to run away together! That's what it means to cherish someone)))

Damn, Crowley's glasses are just a top)) why don't they wear them now!?)))

This series has gone great.

When angel decided to "seduce" Crowley with oysters, I laughed.

15:25, I heard in Russian, "if you get arrested." But I could be wrong, it's just voices in the background.

Crowley said he showed Jesus all the countries of the world. On the one hand, it was very sad. On the other hand, the Doctor!

Crowley has an amazing amount of cool points for all time (pun intended).

A few more funny moments: Shakespeare, who gained fame thanks to Crowley (and Aziraphale's love for his "not funny" plays). The demon dancing in the church. Gatiss, who perfectly played the nasty German.
Adam said he wrote a book about... a pirate who was a famous detective, is that a reference to Sherlock? xD ...The cowboy who fights dinosaurs on a spaceship is a reference to Doctor Who? Is this a Gatiss supplement? xD

A boy with an aura that spreads more than the whole of the UK, because of which there is an atmosphere of love and (locally) always perfect weather. Isn't it lovely? What is threatening whom there? XD
The nuclear plant and the minister turned out to be powerful, of course.
The series itself is a rather sad satire about history, about the world and about life in general.

And the series itself is just a love story! Saved books... Holy water. A conversation in a car in the 60s ("Crowley, for my taste, you drive too fast/rush things"). "You can't leave, Crowley! There is nowhere to go!" - "The universe is huge. If everything here burns to hell, we can still escape together." (Again, thoughts about the Doctor, but God, what a thorn! He swims by himself, you don't need to row!)

They've run through the epochs well, it's not a new move, but it always looks great.

The moment with the church and the sacred land is just a bomb 😅
And it's a pity that Noah missed the second unicorn.)

Crowley saving a friend is just something!!!!! And the look in Aziraphale's eyes when he was handed a bag of books, mmmmm.... And in the end, it's so sad, Crowley's right, they have their own side!

Oh, this minister...((who understood, he understood)

The friendship of an angel and a demon is wonderful. It's so cute. But some moments are so ridiculous and dumb. Well, that's for me. It's so cool

The best episode so far) I really enjoyed the adventures of this couple in all eras))
Anathema is unrealistically beautiful)

Rainbow as God's promise not to drown people in a new way

Flashback moments are awesome

So that's why there are no unicorns)

The screen saver is on the 29th minute. Strongly)

Crowley is cool. All his outfits are a dump of everything.
Aziraphale is just a sweetheart ^^
Such a contrast between the characters. They are so different, but at the same time they complement each other. It's interesting to watch their tandem and how Crowley gets Aziraphale out of trouble.

I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous.😅

"Sergeant Shadwell."
"Mr. Crowley, you look great!"
- A sinless life

😂😂😂

As subtle, witty, fascinating and exciting as the first half of the series is, the second half is just as boring, dull and drawn out. Events are moving too slowly.
The way the Rabbits/Crowley questions the goodness of God, the Divine Plan, and the entire "bright" side in just a couple of phrases, which is great. And Aziraphale doesn't even have an answer, because he thinks so himself deep down. A kind of Bulgakov's spirit.
I feel sorry for the Parisian executioner, he was executed for nothing((

I like the way they meet so much, it's comical that at the beginning of the series, when there was a war and angel was looking for the "black knight", that when Crowley came to rescue him on consecrated ground and jumped on it 😁

Z - care, the slogan of this series

Lady, how fun it is to watch when a demon takes care of an angel, went to the holy land for him, and so on)

Crowley on the illuminated ground, gorgeous!

Seriously, should I start the screensaver at 28 minutes? ;)

I've never thought of watching it as something cute before)))

After the season two finale, it's even sadder to revisit and see what Crowley has been doing for Aziraphale for all these 6 thousand years!

I don't understand the series yet, I don't even understand the humor, is everything bad? But the third episode is already😅

An absolutely legendary interpretation of the biblical story: starting with Adam having to name the dog, and the unicorns were lost because one escaped during the flood, and the other turned out to be useless (Old Testament motif), ending with the number 666 (New Testament) Of course, I don't remember if that was the case in the book, but then — wow

Oh, the actors and creators of "Inside Number Nine") Also both at once, as usual ☺️

I like Aziraphale's hedonism) go to France for crepes and go to jail)

I'm so glad that after 5 years I decided to review the first season before starting the second. Then, in 2019, I couldn't even think about any hints in the relationship of the characters. And now it all seems so sweet😅