Nina Sosanya and Maggie Service on ‘Good Omens’ Season 2: ‘Anything can happen’

Nina Sosanya and Maggie Service who played Sisters Mary Loquacious and Theresa Garrulous in Season 1, return in Season 2 to run a fabulous coffee shop and a gorgeous record store right beside Mr. Aziraphale’s bookshop

In season 1 of Neil Gaiman’s quirky, Good Omens, Sister Mary Loquacious (Nina Sosanya) and Sister Theresa Garrulous (Maggie Service) lose the antichrist in a horrible mix up and the convent of the Chattering Order of St. Beryl is burnt to the ground. While Sister Mary returns as a manager, we have no idea what happens to Sister Theresa.

Season 1 ends with Armageddon being averted and our favourites, the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and demon, Crowley (David Tennant) mostly managing to escape the consequences of their actions. And now there is season 2! Apart from Aziraphale and Crawley, there are some returning cast members including Maggie and Nina as characters named Maggie and Nina.

“We are human women, we are those things,” Maggie says with a laugh over a video call from what she describes as a very lovely hotel in central London. “At the end of Season 1, Aziraphale and Crowley are not affiliated with either heaven or hell.” In the beginning of Season 2, Maggie says, the two friends are in a much more human dynamic. “They are dealing with human situations, which include our lives. We have a fabulous coffee shop and a gorgeous record store right besides Mr. Aziraphale’s bookshop, and end up entangled in their lives.”

“We get embroiled,” Nina says, admitting to always wanting to use the word.  “We get embroiled, in the goings on with heaven and hell, but we are still very much human who live and work in Soho.”

A year and a half before Season 1, Maggie says, she was asked to do a table read of all six episodes for Gaiman and the producers. “I read about 18 characters and from that I ended up being cast in Season 1 as a slightly hairy satanic nun alongside Nina. I thought that was it because we had told the story of the whole book in season one, including Armageddon.”

Then, Maggie says she got an email from Gaiman in the middle of lockdown saying not only was he writing Season 2, but he was also writing a part for her. “He asked me was that something I wanted to do to which I said, ‘Yes, please’.”

Describing her Good Omens journey, Nina says, “I got a phone call from my agent saying, ‘there’s this audition for a part in a thing called Good Omens’. There was a long silence on the other end of the phone because it was the sort of thing that I’d been waiting to hear about Good Omens.” A fan of the 1990 book for many years, Nina could not quite believe it was finally going to be adapted for screen.