GOOD OMENS (Amazon/BBC, 2019)
byIn 1990, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman co-authored Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. The book was nominated for…
NEIL GAIMAN
AMERICAN GODS, 1.8 – ‘Come to Jesus’
byIf there’s one consistent theme in American Gods, it’s belief. The show is all about how faith in the Old Gods or the New…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.7 – ‘A Prayer for Mad Sweeney’
byIt can be infuriating that American Gods often lacks much-needed structure and clarity, because it’s evidently superb at standalone storytelling. This week’s penultimate hour,…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.6 – ‘A Murder Of Gods’
byAmerican Gods is a very strange show. Its strangeness is something that makes it hard to define, and often something making it hard to…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.5 – ‘Lemon Scented You’
byAll the various and previously disconnected strands of American Gods’ core narrative are beginning to come together. Unlike last week’s excellent but unusual episode,…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.4 – ‘Git Gone’
by“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, cohesive, and…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.3 – ‘Head Full of Snow’
byAmerican Gods is such an overwhelmingly gorgeous show that it feels hard to criticise it. Like the previous two episodes, “Head Full of Snow”…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.2 – ‘The Secret of Spoons’
byShadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is not having a good week. After narrowly surviving a lynching at the end of the first episode of American…
AMERICAN GODS, 1.1 – ‘The Bone Orchard’
byAmerican Gods doesn’t mess around. Right from the word go, this is a violent, beautiful, confusing drama that makes it clear it won’t be…