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American Gods

2021
4.4
44 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 The Bone Orchard
5/1/17
When Shadow Moon is released from prison a few days early, following the death of his wife, he meets the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday and is conscripted into his employ as bodyguard. Attacked his first day on the job, Shadow quickly discovers that this role may be more than he bargained for.
2 The Secret of Spoons
5/8/17
As Mr. Wednesday begins recruitment for the coming battle, Shadow Moon travels with him to Chicago, and agrees to a very high stakes game of checkers with the old Slavic god, Czernobog.
3 Head Full of Snow
5/15/17
Shadow questions the terms of his employment when Mr. Wednesday informs him of his plan to rob a bank (because, naturally, every army needs a source of funding). Just when Shadow thought his life couldn’t get any more complicated, he returns to his motel room to a surprising discovery...
4 Git Gone
5/22/17
Alternating between the past and the present, Laura’s life and death are explored—how she met Shadow, how she died, and how exactly she came to be sitting on the edge of his motel room bed.
5 Lemon Scented You
5/29/17
Trying to work things out with his dead and unfaithful wife, Shadow’s emotional reunion is interrupted when he and Mr. Wednesday are kidnapped by the New Gods.
6 A Murder of Gods
6/5/17
On the run after the New Gods’ show of force, Shadow and Mr. Wednesday seek safe haven with one of Mr. Wednesday’s oldest friends, Vulcan, God of the Fire and the Forge.
7 Prayer for Mad Sweeney
6/12/17
Her brief reunion with Shadow over far too quickly, Laura turns to an unlikely travel companion to find her way back to life, and back to Shadow. Mad Sweeney’s long, winding, and often tragic past is explored.
8 Come to Jesus
6/19/17
On the eve of war, Mr. Wednesday must recruit one more Old God: Ostara (né Easter), Goddess of the Dawn But winning her over will require making a good impression, and that is where Mr. Nancy comes in.

About this show

Season Two finds the battle between Old Gods and New Gods moving inexorably towards crisis point as their destinies collide with those of men. In this strange new world, faith requires terrible sacrifice.

Ratings and reviews

4.4
44 reviews
Badd Badger
May 13, 2019
I have read some of Neil Gaimans work here and there, and enjoyed it a very much. But i have not read the book of this. So i do not know how the TV show and the book compare to each other, or if the TV show is a good adaptation of the book or not. My friends that HAVE read this book dissagree with my following opinion and assessment. But a couple of other friends who have NOT read the book agree with what i am about to say, just about word for word. Visually, this is stunning in very many ways. (If you understand what you are seeing or not is another matter). But, there is no getting around it, i thought this show was so bad that i resented every good review i had heard or read, and every minute of this that i sat through. This, is, TERRIBLE. And i am being polite there. I am not joking when i say that i had been suffering from terrible insomnia for a long, long time. This show honestly cured that for a while. No joke! In (roughly) eight hours of TV, they only get around to the beginings of the plot in the final five minutes OR LESS. If season 2 does not pick up the pace then this story could take centuries to tell. It is not that i have a short attention span. This is just BAD.
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Gareth Knight
November 27, 2019
Season 1 was amazing and I couldn't wait for season 2. It was a massive disappointment though. I felt cheated to be honest, the finale of season 2 was so lame and not what I was hoping for at all.
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Mark MD
January 12, 2021
Very good series, can we have season 3?
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