American Gods Is ‘Definitely Not Dead’ Despite Cancellation, Insists EP

RELATED STORIES American Gods is down but not necessarily out, insists franchise overlord Neil Gaiman. In the wake of the series’ cancellation earlier this week, the EP — whose 2001 novel the Starz series was based on — took to social media late Tuesday to assure fans that the troubled fantasy drama is “definitely not dead,” adding, […]

American Gods Finale: Stars Weigh In on Mr. Wednesday’s Final (?) Screw-You

RELATED STORIES Warning: This post contains major spoilers from Sunday’s American Gods Season 3 finale. Proceed accordingly. Should we really be surprised that the tally at the end of American Gods‘ third season is Mr. Wednesday: one, Shadow Moon: Less than zero? Shadow spent most of Sunday’s finale hanging from a mystical tree, undergoing a vigil […]

American Gods’ Ricky Whittle and Yetide Badaki Tease the Orisha’s Role in the Game-Changing Season Finale

RELATED STORIES Sunday’s American Gods finale will find Shadow Moon holding an extremely physically taxing vigil for his dead father Mr. Wednesday, who also happens to be the Norse deity Odin. There’s no assurance that Shadow, whose mother was a Black woman with no celestial powers to speak of, will even make it through the […]

Ragnarok Season Finale Recap: Gods Don’t Need Smartphones

RELATED STORIES In the season finale of Netflix’s Ragnarok, small-town secrets wait to be exposed, while dormant powers finally break the surface. As Magne comes to terms with who he is, Gry gets closer to the truth about Fjor’s family. The whole shebang culminates with lightning and glowing eyes and lots of punching, but let’s […]

Power’s Lela Loren Joins American Gods as Shadow’s New [Spoiler]

RELATED STORIES Snowy Lakeside, Wisc. just got a lot warmer. Power star Lela Loren has signed on to recur as Marguerite Olsen, a neighbor of Shadow Moon’s — excuse us, Mike Ainsel’s — in Season 3 of Starz’s American Gods. Our sister site, Deadline, first reported the casting. In the Neil Gaiman novel on which […]

American Gods season 2 spoilers: Truth about Mad Sweeney's past revealed HUGE twist

American Gods started of its season two with an incredible display of colour and mystery. As Shadow Moon (played by Ricky Whittle) and the team – comprised of Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) and Laura Moon (Emily Browning) – ventured into the House on the Rock, things got a little strange. The team jumped into “Backstage” […]

Sentient rock gods, Hamlet, and a dash of LOTR: Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower

Warning: Mild spoilers ahead. (credit: Tor/Orbit) Author Ann Leckie may not be the first to explore the consequences of ruling sentient beings and dueling AIs within a book, though her award-winning sci-fi novel Ancillary Justice and its sequels suggested there were still new storytelling ideas in the conceit. For instance, what if that dystopian-future lens […]

Old Gods and New Gods prepare for war in new trailer for American Gods S2

Second trailer for American Gods season 2, which debuts on Starz March 10. We’re less than two months away from the season 2 debut of American Gods, the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel, and Starz has rewarded fans’ patience with a shiny new trailer. (Spoilers for first season below.) In season 1, Shadow […]

American Gods Season 2 Trailer: For Old Gods and New, It's 'Time to Ride'

We’re not entirely sure it’s Shadow who’s receiving multiple, dire warnings in the newly released American Gods Season 2 trailer, but if so, we suggest he heeds them — and quickly. Because when Laura says “He is dangerous. I need you to believe that” and Mad Sweeney cautions “There’s always a cost with him. You just […]

The warring old and new gods are back in American Gods S2 teaser trailer

The second season of American Gods, the Starz adaption of Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel, has been plagued for months by production turmoil, including the recent sidelining of its replacement show runner. So there’s been some skepticism among fans of the series that season 2 could live up to the darkly haunting tone of the well-received […]