An Investigation of Good Omens Television Series Through Content Analysis in the Context of Intertextuality

Intertextuality is a concept introduced by postmodern literary theorists such as Bakhtin, Kristeva, Barthes, Rifaterre, and Genette in the 1960s. It is based on the idea that texts interact with one another and that there is a continual exchange between them. This concept, which highlights the use of multiple texts together and asserts that no text is entirely independent, is frequently encountered in contemporary cinema and television, as well as in other art forms such as poetry, music, and storytelling. The television series Good Omens, which is streamed on the subscription-based digital platform Amazon Prime, is considered one of the productions that extensively employs intertextuality. The aim of this article is to examine how intertextual relations are applied in Good Omens with concrete examples. In this context, six episodes from the first season of the series were analysed in terms of Genette's concepts of common unity and derivative relationships. During the analysis, techniques such as imitation, allusion, onomatopoeia, and comic transformation were identified and explained in detail using the content analysis method.