Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2022: Week 10
Slow Show is a Good Omens alternate universe slash Aziraphale/Crowley story by mia_ugly.
Slow Show is a Hollywood AU about human Anthony Crowley as a troubled, washed-up actor with a history of drug addiction, and Avery Fell (a human stand-in for Aziraphale) as a rising star with a squeaky clean image. The plot revolves around the Slow Burn (trope) between them as they costar in an award-winning TV series, Warlock. The summary states this is a story "in which temptations are accomplished, grand romantic gestures are made, and two ineffable co-stars only take four seasons of an award-winning television program to realize they’re on their own side (at last, at last.)"
Slow Show is worth noting for essentially spawning its own fandom, that is sometimes referred to as the Slow Show Metaverse. The popularity of this fandom resulted in the creation of several character, ship and additional tags on AO3 - to the point where searching for Crowley (Good Omens) in the AO3 characters dropdown list while posting a new work will return a result for Anthony J. Crowley (Slow Show). It could even be argued that Slow Show has spawned two recursive fandoms, with fans writing fic set in the universe of the fictional Warlock TV show, as well as works about actors Anthony and Avery.