AMERICAN GODS, 1.8 – ‘Come to Jesus’
[usr 4.0] If there’s one consistent theme in American Gods, it’s belief. The show is all about how faith in the Old Gods or...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.7 – ‘A Prayer for Mad Sweeney’
[usr 4.5] It can be infuriating that American Gods often lacks much-needed structure and clarity, because it’s evidently superb at standalone storytelling. This week’s...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.6 – ‘A Murder Of Gods’
[usr 3.5] American Gods is a very strange show. Its strangeness is something that makes it hard to define, and often something making it...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.5 – ‘Lemon Scented You’
[usr 4.5] All the various and previously disconnected strands of American Gods’ core narrative are beginning to come together. Unlike last week’s excellent but...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.4 – ‘Git Gone’
[usr 5.0] “Git Gone” is the best episode of American Gods so far. It’s more than that, though, it’s the show’s first truly great,...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.3 – ‘Head Full of Snow’
[usr 4.0] American Gods is such an overwhelmingly gorgeous show that it feels hard to criticise it. Like the previous two episodes, “Head Full...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.2 – ‘The Secret of Spoons’
[usr 4.0] Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is not having a good week. After narrowly surviving a lynching at the end of the first episode...
AMERICAN GODS, 1.1 – ‘The Bone Orchard’
[usr 4.5] American Gods doesn’t mess around. Right from the word go, this is a violent, beautiful, confusing drama that makes it clear it...