American Gods

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Season 2
  • Network: Starz
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 30, 2017
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
5.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 64 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 64
  3. Negative: 23 out of 64
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  1. addict-insane
    Apr 19, 2019
    2
    This is a TV show I can absolutely watch while cooking 'cus I know I won't miss anything. Nothing but exposition and themes that used to be subtle are now being spouted through the mouths of the characters. This season the vaping kid gets more screen time, 'cause who didn't want to see more of that annoying piece of **** Wednesday and Orlando Jones get even more Shakespearean in theirThis is a TV show I can absolutely watch while cooking 'cus I know I won't miss anything. Nothing but exposition and themes that used to be subtle are now being spouted through the mouths of the characters. This season the vaping kid gets more screen time, 'cause who didn't want to see more of that annoying piece of **** Wednesday and Orlando Jones get even more Shakespearean in their expository/prophetic dialogue, and Shadow just makes the same face he has been making for the last two years. Don't you just love how show business destroys everything you love?… Expand
  2. laeknir45
    Apr 28, 2019
    0
    This show has gone downhill fast. From an interesting and compelling premise in the first season, it's now mired in slow, pointless, and often confusing dialogue with no clear direction or even a hint of a direction. The second season didn't answer anything or go deeper in any way. In the first season, Mr. Wednesday appeared to have strong but mysterious goals, much like the comicsThis show has gone downhill fast. From an interesting and compelling premise in the first season, it's now mired in slow, pointless, and often confusing dialogue with no clear direction or even a hint of a direction. The second season didn't answer anything or go deeper in any way. In the first season, Mr. Wednesday appeared to have strong but mysterious goals, much like the comics version. Now, Wednesday just feels like he's chaotic and pointlessly vague. We still know little to nothing about Shadow. The villains aren't much better, and for so-called powerful new American Gods they still seem shallow caricatures. Mr. World is whispery and "dark", definitely moustache-twirling, but also appears to have no real plan other than chaos. New Media is pretty awful, especially when compared to Gillian Anderson's version. Technical Boy apparently leveled up from once being Telephone Boy, but doesn't really represent new technology; rather, he seems to represent basement-dwelling stereotypes. Mad Sweeney definitely became more interesting once we had the information-dump episode about his past and origins, but then they immediately waste all of that development by killing him off. It doesn't seem like the writers really know where they're going. Fuller had a pretty good starter vision for the series, but this rapidly became like all of his other projects. Fuller bails on shows in a huff, rather than staying and working things to make them better, and so they fall into other peoples' hands who scramble to try and re-map a series into their own vision. Bringing Neil Gaiman on board was certainly good, but mainly good for visuals and side-stories; it seems they don't want to get to the big reveal about Shadow anytime soon... or ever, given the snail's pace they were at this whole season. And talk about wasted opportunities... Bilquis could be fascinating, Mr. Ibis could be so much more interesting, and Mr. Nancy just lounges around being judgy and sarcastic. The suicide of Donar the great was a disservice to a strong and clearly moral character, quite unlike Thor in the Eddas and Sagas. And Columbia seemed rather random, disconnected from anything important (did people even realize she was meant to be the goddess of America and Liberty, considering that she's introduced as a burlesque performer?). This series still has good CGI eye-candy, but it's weighed down by randomness and deep problems with the narrative.… Expand
  3. dontjimmymejulz
    May 1, 2019
    0
    What have they done to my show? Loved the first season but this is a lazy and aimless pile of moronic drivel dressed up to be meaningful and 'edgy' - it's basically just padding because they've run out of material. My wife read the book and at around episode five she had no idea what the script writers were doing. There are long scenes where nothing of any consequence or even interestWhat have they done to my show? Loved the first season but this is a lazy and aimless pile of moronic drivel dressed up to be meaningful and 'edgy' - it's basically just padding because they've run out of material. My wife read the book and at around episode five she had no idea what the script writers were doing. There are long scenes where nothing of any consequence or even interest happen... it's like they just started making stuff up to fill in the time. I actually turned off when they had shirtless dancing cowboys performing a terrible cabaret act and Shadow Moon was shuffling around a shopping mall, for... you know, reasons? - Watch the first season, it really is a lot of fun and very stylish but skip this empty and lifeless filler-fest.… Expand
  4. Bitmouse
    Apr 16, 2019
    2
    Unfortunately the loss of Showrunners Bryan Singer and Michael Green has reduced the second season to an aimless **** show suffering from too many egos run amok.
  5. SuperKev
    Aug 5, 2019
    2
    Season 1 was really good. Season 2? /what happened to this thing? Basically the plot barely advances and I mean at this rate they could do 5 seasons like this and the audience would hardly notice.
  6. Simon1111
    Dec 7, 2021
    2
    This season kill all good, that was in previous season. If you read the book, don't watch it! This plot is not from original book, it just a waste of time.
  7. eduardosfw
    May 28, 2020
    1
    Too much filller. No action. Too much bla bla bla. Too much focus on anti-religion sruff, Gay stuff. First season was OK, was a good try do adapt book to screen, but the second?
    Second season is all about filling the hours with nothing, **** the book, **** the main character, all they want is to fill episodes with enough nothing so they can escape to another season.
    Yes, season 2 is a    Too much filller. No action. Too much bla bla bla. Too much focus on anti-religion sruff, Gay stuff. First season was OK, was a good try do adapt book to screen, but the second?
    Second season is all about filling the hours with nothing, **** the book, **** the main character, all they want is to fill episodes with enough nothing so they can escape to another season.
    Yes, season 2 is a shame. It is as bad as bad can be.    … Expand

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Metascore
47

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Tristram Fane Saunders
    Jan 3, 2020
    80
    Watch this show cynically, and the whole edifice might topple down. But go along with it and it’s one hell of a ride. Like the gods themselves, American Gods requires – and rewards – your unquestioning faith.
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  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Stuart Jeffries
    Dec 3, 2019
    40
    American Gods is like a Marvel or DC franchise with theological pretensions. Like Avengers: Age of Ultron or Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement, it has a plot so baffling only weird life forms (11-year-old boys, swivel-eyed lawyers) could explain or care about.
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  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Mar 8, 2019
    40
    The overall effect is that of an imperfect series with a powerful, instantly recognizable aesthetic and personality being remade so as to remove the aesthetic and personality while leaving most of the problem spots.
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