I read the novel Good Omens -- the exceptional product of two exceptionally creative minds: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett -- many times over the years but, unfortunately, the last time I read it was probably a good two decades ago.

It's a shame, really, because the book is really quite good, as my review from long ago will show. But this review isn't of the book, it's over the six-episode miniseries, which debuted recently on Amazon Prime.

It's really quite good.

That probably has much to do with the fact that Gaiman, the surviving member of the original writing team, himself adapted the novel for film. But it also benefits from a cast that, frankly, couldn't have been much better.

It stars, foremost, David Tennant as the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale. The two have been enemies -- and, sort of, friends, when you look at it in the proper light -- since the Garden of Eden, and now they're living pleasant enough lives in modern London, where they still dip their fingers into mortal affairs just enough to keep their respective bosses happy. Theirs is a merry war that reveals a grudging affection between two immortal beings who should, by all rights, loathe one another with every fiber of their beings.

But now the Antichrist has been born and Armageddon is upon us. The Earth will burn, and angels and demons alike are gearing up for a second war in Heaven.

Except for Aziraphale and Crowley, actually, who just want to continue enjoying their endless lives in peace. Aziraphale runs a bookshop and enjoys a good crepe, while Crowley loves his car and terrorizes his houseplants. Who would want to give that up? They don't and they'd like to find a way to avoid the whole apocalypse, thank you very much -- but neither side supports their efforts to avert the end of all things.

Francis McDormand is the Voice of God, who serves as narrator for the tale. Sam Taylor Buck is Adam Young, the Antichrist, who's just turned 11 but didn't grow up in the circumstances his infernal father had planned. Instead of being a son of wealth and power, he's an average boy with weird but average friends -- Pepper (Amma Ris), Wensleydale (Alfie Taylor) and Brian (Ilan Galkoff) -- and a cheerful mutt named Dog, who was meant to be a Hellhound.

Adria Arjona is Anathema Device, the last descendant of Agnes Nutter, witch, whose ancient prophecies are both nice and accurate. Jack Whitehall is Newton Pulsifer, the last descendant of the witchfinder who burned Agnes at the stake, and he's just met up with Shadwell (Michael McKeen), who is the last witchfinder in England.

There are plenty more actors of note in the cast, including Jon Hamm, Miranda Richardson, Brian Cox and Josie Lawrence, and characters ranging from Beelzebub to Gabriel, the Four Horsemen, a dedicated delivery man and the neighborhood watch. It's great fun, and a marvelous adaptation of a great book.

Read it, if you haven't. Watch it, too. Both versions deserve your attention. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go find my copy of the book and give it another go.