American Gods : Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:35 am  

I've only just got around to watching this on Amazon Prime; 4 episodes in, and it's brilliant. Takes some getting your head around if you haven't read the book, but it's essentially around a hidden world of magic and ancient gods, and their response to the new world of technology and such. Well worth a go - and some perseverance.

Re: American Gods : Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:25 am  

It just didn't click with me TBH. I enjoyed the scenes with Ian McShane but there seemed an awful lot of pointless filler that seemed like it was trying too hard to be clever.

Re: American Gods : Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:34 pm  

I've just watched the final episode and whilst I take your point about being clever - I don't think it was a case of trying too hard; I think it just is clever - that's kind of the point of a Neil Gaiman story.

As I said, I'm not sure it has mass appeal - maybe for the reason you've highlighted - but I really enjoyed it; once you get the gist, it's really interesting and very well made. I'm looking forward to season 2.

Re: American Gods : Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:00 pm  

Binged on this over a couple of nights and really enjoyed it - Ian McShane is superb, an interesting concept with plenty of twists.

One problem - couldn't see past Shadow Moon being the guy from Hollyoaks.

Re: American Gods : Thu Sep 14, 2017 11:23 am  

Cronus wrote:

Binged on this over a couple of nights and really enjoyed it - Ian McShane is superb, an interesting concept with plenty of twists.

One problem - couldn't see past Shadow Moon being the guy from Hollyoaks.

Agreed - another outstanding performance from Ian McShane, as per his brilliant turn in Deadwood.

Thankfully I haven't watched Hollyoaks in donkeys, so I didn't have that to contend with.

Re: American Gods : Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:32 pm  

Season 2 is on Prime as of today I believe - at least Cronus and I will be happy.

Re: American Gods : Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:21 pm  

bren2k wrote:

Season 2 is on Prime as of today I believe - at least Cronus and I will be happy.

Hell yeah, enjoyed the first episode of S2, very mysterious. Been looking forward to this for months. Lovejoy will prevail!