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American Gods |OT| You Had Me At Bryan Fuller - Sundays on Starz
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You need the STARZ addon sub as well, you can trial a month free but then you need to pay an extra $5/month i think.
Well that sucks. Then it shouldn't say 'Season included with your Prime Subscription.' oh well.
- A|V Club Review: American Gods love scenes are as electric, erotic, and earnest as dreams.
- TVLine: American Gods Recap: Wish Fulfillment.
- Vulture: American Gods Recap: Snow Day.
- Uproxx: American Gods Book Club Head Full Of Snow And A Fist Full Of Money.
- EW: Neil Gaiman on writing American Gods' gay love story.
- THR: 'American Gods': Bryan Fuller Explains That Wild and "Empowering" Sex Scene.
- TVGuide: American Gods Bosses Break Down That Intense Gay Sex Scene (and All Those Penises).
- TVLine: American Gods Recap: Wish Fulfillment.
- Vulture: American Gods Recap: Snow Day.
- Uproxx: American Gods Book Club Head Full Of Snow And A Fist Full Of Money.
- EW: Neil Gaiman on writing American Gods' gay love story.
- THR: 'American Gods': Bryan Fuller Explains That Wild and "Empowering" Sex Scene.
- TVGuide: American Gods Bosses Break Down That Intense Gay Sex Scene (and All Those Penises).
whatsinaname
Member
They should have included The Office style interview scenes.
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"So, I'm Odin".
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"So, I'm Odin".
Maintenance
Member
That telescope girl is like a prettier version of Gillian Jacobs, wow.
Liking it a bit more each episode, I thought this one was the best so far.
The opening was very touching.
Shadow's wife is gorgeous. ay papi
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Lol, I like how so many people who knew about this show going into it are, like, "ain't nothing confusing about this" and so many people who didn't are, like "yo, this shit is confusing".
Like I said earlier in the thread, I like weird and confusing shit, so I don't mind it too much but I'm sure a lot of people are going to be turned off by it. Someone already said in the thread that their wife gave on it since it was too confusing, I bet she won't be the only one.
The opening was very touching.
Shadow's wife is gorgeous. ay papi
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Lol, I like how so many people who knew about this show going into it are, like, "ain't nothing confusing about this" and so many people who didn't are, like "yo, this shit is confusing".
Like I said earlier in the thread, I like weird and confusing shit, so I don't mind it too much but I'm sure a lot of people are going to be turned off by it. Someone already said in the thread that their wife gave on it since it was too confusing, I bet she won't be the only one.
Gemüsepizza
Member
Where do you live? In my country (Germany) it is included with Amazon Prime, without additional cost, but it won't be available until later today as far as I know.
OdysseusVA
Banned
That was, umm, some gay sex.
Wait, what happened in the morning?
Wait, what happened in the morning?
American Gods has taught me that if you have sex three things will happen:
A: You will die in a car crash with a ding dong in your mouth
B: You will be Honey we Shrunk the Kids'd, sucked into a coochie and be thrown across the cosmos
C: Fire cum will go inside of you and you will be taken over by the person who came in you
Sex is more dangerous in this world than in an 80s slasher movie.
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Oh god, what did Ian McShane do to that poor girl in the motel!?
whyamihere
Banned
FIRE JIZZ
Book spoilers, kind of, TV made it ambiguous but this is what happens:
Jinn left with Salim's clothes, briefcase and airplane tickets. Salim adopts the jinn's life in his stead. It's implied that they do a Trading Places kind of switcheroo.
The TV in particular failed to deliver on this point but I guess there was no good way they could do it:
The TV in particular failed to deliver on this point but I guess there was no good way they could do it:
American Gods said:
Book spoilers:
Odin gets women by having two charms:
1. make any woman love him
2. make it so that any woman who falls in love with him will never love anyone else ever.
She's probably now going to go through her life unable to make a romantic connection ever again.
1. make any woman love him
2. make it so that any woman who falls in love with him will never love anyone else ever.
She's probably now going to go through her life unable to make a romantic connection ever again.
I'd say that the message here is "Don't have sex with gods" but honestly, the Bilquis lovers seem happy and Salim seems excited to take on his new life. Only Laura got the short end of the stick by having sex with a normal dude. So maybe it is "God sex costs, but it's worth it"
It is, but probably not the way you think. It's more sad than anything.
It's not really sad. I think it's quite cheerful and optimistic.
Unending and undiminishing longing for a man who you'll never see again that prevents you from making a connection with anyone else
No. Season 1 is, if I remember the interviews correctly, the first 25-30% of the book. There's a mini climax that will likely be the climax of this season.
I don't remember where I read it, but my understanding is that the season only covers part of the book. If we're going by my kindle, the show is about 18% of the book in.
too far removed from the present for them to have got to America. Odin and Loki came with Eriksson, Anansi with African slaves etc. No ancient Greek ever came near the new world.
Oh, damn, so we could go a bunch of seasons without finishing the book? Interesting.
From everything I've read about it from Fuller and friends, I am almost certain that the first 2 seasons will not finish the book. I can mentally partition the book into 4 seasons going by their time table and I assume it'll be expanded to fill a 5th, if they ever get that far.
The structure of the book makes it much more likely they'll expand and add new stuff along the way, not finish the book and then tack on the new material.
But I'm sure there are some Fuller interviews on the subject someone could link. He likely has a 5-7 season plan, which means we'll probably get 2-3.
Napoleonthechimp
Member
Doesn't mean there aren't people who believe in those things. I mean, Mexican Jesus didn't exist 2000 years ago but Mr Wednesday talks about how he's one of many versions of Jesus knocking about.
Beren the Empty-Handed
Member
I love this show. That episode was perfect. The rooftop scene, the snow, the jinn...
So good.
So good.
Nope. Sex is plot here.
Beren the Empty-Handed
Member
They are not superfluous. They are a part of establishing the world of the show and the characters in it.
If you're getting stories about gods without sex in them you're getting some watered down and abdridged stories.
I fucking loved this episodes opening.
In the book
But in the show, it made the story and more optimistic one, rather than a more melancholy tone of the book.
Did i just misinterpret the story altogether ?
You mean yours isn't ? 😜
Yeah.
In the book
, it seemed to me like Ibrahim fucked over (no pun intended) Salem and was a really sad story
But in the show, it made the story and more optimistic one, rather than a more melancholy tone of the book.
Did i just misinterpret the story altogether ?
Better start practising kicking over rubbish bins. 😝
Pretty much the same in the book.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Watching this back to back with The Leftovers is gonna melt my brain.
- These "Somewhere in America..." openings are dope.
- Zorya is 🔥🔥🔥
- Mr. Wednesday is too smooth
- Hannibal Squad Sighting...and he's dead. That's some Final Destination shit.
- They really did a good job with the cabbie story
- "Yeah, I like marshmallows." Lol
Good episode. I especially liked Shadow and Mr Wednesday chat in the car near the end.
- These "Somewhere in America..." openings are dope.
- Zorya is 🔥🔥🔥
- Mr. Wednesday is too smooth
- Hannibal Squad Sighting...and he's dead. That's some Final Destination shit.
- They really did a good job with the cabbie story
- "Yeah, I like marshmallows." Lol
Good episode. I especially liked Shadow and Mr Wednesday chat in the car near the end.
moffattron9000
Member
For some reason, Amazon doesn't actually put it up for another half-hour (9pm for me in New Zealand). For me at least, it's actually quicker to pirate it; as it's up that way by about 4:30.
Yeah. Which is a shame because it nailed the rest of that story so well.
Why? They showed them switching clothes and jobs. Which were the two things we knew about each character.
No, they didn't.
Gemüsepizza;236850030 said:
Philippines. I guess it takes awhile to update??
Yeah I wanted to pirate it but if I can watch it in Prime Video, why not! Haha
Edit: nevermind. It's up now.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Yeah, they did? The salesman had to take the sweater, glasses, and cab. He even repeated the "I don't grant wishes" line while in the front seat of the cab. I mean...I don't know how more obvious they could be without a line of dialogue literally saying it.
Because you only
know they flipped if you see the other guy. Which you don't. Because of that, it's a one-sided transaction where you see the guy being gifted a new life. Meaning that I thought the Djinn died, or did grant a wish, or possessed him.
It makes it look like
the jinn took over Salim. When you consider the direction they took with Bilquis and Anansi this is a very simple interpretation to make.
Maintenance
Member
That's what I thought. To me
the Jinn was either dead or possessed the dude.
Yes, they did, directly after the sex scene fades to black, you see Salim picking up the jinn's sweater and wallet/keys and get into his taxi.
You can infer he does that because his original stuff isn't there anymore.
Here's the excerpt from AV Club:
No, you cannot infer that his stuff is missing because they do not show that his stuff is missing. If it is "obvious" to you, I'm willing to wager that you read the source material.
It very much reads as a possession, especially after the gay sex scene.
After seeing it, I was like "This is either a possession or a statement on generational wealth being passed down from one set of immigrants to the next?" and it turned out to be neither.
I'm gonna go with some of the posts already in this thread and say three episodes in this show is still too obtuse . Plus shadow moon just going along with all this wackiness doesn't seem at all like a normal person would react . The only justification I can think of is loss of a close on so he just doesn't think/care .... But this show has one of the worst expositions for a major show .