American Gods

The conscientious visual style that Fuller honed on “Hannibal” achieves riotous new heights of sensuality in this series. Green, a DC Comics veteran whose television credits include serving as an executive producer on “Heroes,” aids in harmonizing the story’s surfeit of histories and personalities into an intelligible and spellbinding structure.

American Gods is a bit too packed with these intriguing jaunts, and the narrative sometimes feels like it will run out of gas long before reaching its destination. (The first 8-episode season reportedly covers only the first third of the fantasy epic.) But that doesn't mean you won't enjoy the ride.

Joining McShane and Whittle, such stars as Cloris Leachman, Peter Stormare, Emily Browning, Pablo Schreiber, and others contribute their immeasurable talents. They play their roles expertly, carrying the show's allure and mystery while humanizing their otherworldly characters.

Like the Wachowskis’ “Sense8,” you are prompted to suspend disbelief not by a convincing narrative but by hypnotic visuals--here augmented by extraordinary performances.

Laura (Emily Browning) is still one of the best parts of the series, but she’s missing too much from the screen. There’s little focus and disparate storylines, and American Gods doesn’t seem interested in the deeper questions it once asked.

American Gods is amazing to look at and often hard to watch. If you're a fan of Gaiman's work, and patient with slow-moving scenes of thinly developed characters speechifying, you may like it. Others might want to proceed with caution.

Without the visual panache of the first season to balance the occasionally thin material, it becomes hard to ignore that the characters are more words than people, vehicles for expository monologues that stand in for actual conflict.

Having just seen Seasons 1-3 of American Gods, I'm heartbroken to learn that the show has been cancelled. Unlike some of the negative reviewers, I did not find this show confusing or believe that it suffered from a lack of explanation (the main character's story arc is literally him being thrown into a world he doesn't fully understand, hence the air of mystery). If this show had been on traditional broadcast television, I'd understand the cancellation. The plot moves somewhat slowly compared to other shows, because it takes time to contextualize the characters that Shadow meets, and the world he now finds himself in. And the show does that beautifully. Of course, this is coming from the perspective of someone who was able to watch each season consecutively, making the story and plot progression seem more cohesive than it would have been if there'd been a year or more wait time between seasons. From what I understand, the cancellation was mainly due to issues with the production company and Starz. Lack of funds, poor leadership, and a new showrunner each season. It's a shame because American Gods is one of the most interesting shows that I've seen in a long time. I'm really hoping that Amazon or another streaming service picks this show up now that Starz has abandoned it, because there is still so much story to be told.

It started off with a amazing premise but sadly you can see it get affected by the same thing every show between 2015 to 2019 got messed up with. Way too much writing around boring subjects that don't belong in SIFIs or Fantasies that were pushed in and made no connection to plot. Despite those typical flaws of todays shows I found my self able to catch up to current episodes.

Nice actors/acting. But weird story/script!! Sorry, not my kind of series. Maybe i'll watch it when im drunk or stoned (or both).

Terrible show. A bunch or weird **** they don’t explain anything whatsoever. Good luck trying to figure out wtf is going on. I’ve never watched every single episode of a show and still been so confused form Episode one to episode 8. A show rated so high I was expecting something good but man all I got was a bunch or weirdness with no explanation.

C’est une série à la fois entièrement ravagée de la tronche et complètement woke de partout avec tous les curseurs de la propagande woke poussés au maximum (SJW DEI LGBT avec également du féminisme haineux et vindicatif et du multi-culturalisme à sens unique et j’en passe **** avec même de manière quasi frontale si j’ose dire de la pédérastie inter-raciale !! c’est presque du porno bien dégueulasse en fait… sans compter une autre relation inter-raciale où une femme noire plutôt vieille et mal foutue (une quasi horreur, une sorte de vieille pute, je suppose) avale un vieux mâle blanc entièrement dans son vagin ?!)…La série est assez régulièrement de ce triste acabit, essayant de surfer sur la vague (ici nauséabonde) de l’ésotérisme fantastico-bizarro-satanico-horrifico… on ne sait trop quoi ou pour résumer, un ensemble définitivement merdique qui ne rime à rien. Car en effet, on n’y comprend rien à ce salmigondis aberrant, incohérent, qui se signale aussi très régulièrement par son mauvais goût **** remarque également un racisme à peine dissimulé et quasi systématique à l’égard de toutes les personnes blanches dans cette série qui ne fait que dérouler de la chiasse tartinée par des wokeux transgenrés aux cheveux bleus. C’est tellement n’importe quoi, tellement plein de mauvais goût qu’on se demande pourquoi ils ont dû payer aussi cher des scénaristes cocaïnomanes alors qu’en demandant au chat qui a pété, on fait moult économies pour un résultat… pas pire.Mais il est vrai que cette merdasse remonte à 2017 et a été produite par… Starz ?!… une boîte d’habitude pas autant wokisée que ça, ou du moins pas à ce point-là… que s’est-il passé ? c’était peut-être une commande de la part d’Amacon-Amawoke, la corpo américaine méga woke comme chacun sait. Mais bon, on s’en fout, on tire la chasse et puis c’est tout.