While checking out my twitter feed this afternoon I noted some of my twitter acquaintances were talking about a new series ‘American Gods’. It sounded interesting but there was a problem … it was on Amazon Prime Video and I am not a subscriber so I was going to need an iffy stream.
It was not easy these iffy streaming sites are being blocked or shut down but I found one.
In its premiere episode, It begins with the brutality of history upon the story is built, a gory prelude of stranded Vikings pleading and praying with the silent All-Father for wind to take them away from this foreign and barren land.
They sacrifice more and more in a constant wager of blood until they are finally granted their wish. When they set sail back to their homeland, they have no idea that they are leaving a corrupted version of their beloved god on the land they abandoned, a god who craves the worship and war that he has been denied for centuries.
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| Mr Wednesday and Shadow Moon |
The episode then follows our protagonist, Shadow Moon. He starts in a jail cell, days from the end of his sentence, and the hope that he will return home to his loving wife. When he is given the news that he is going to be released early, his happiness is followed by something far more distressing – later the previous night his wife had died in a car crash.
The rest of the story follows his journey to his wife’s funeral and along the way; he meets the volatile Mr. Wednesday, who wins his services as a bodyguard with a toss of a coin. We find out his wife had been having an affair with his best friend while he was locked away. We were also introduced to Bilquis who I would never hope to meet on Tinder. She swallows a man whole with her vagina while having sex a new way to die for me.
Mad Sweeney is a leprechaun, and did you know not all are short and then there was and Technical Boy is the first of the new gods we meet, and he certainly makes an impression. Well I an hooked and cannot wait for the next episode.
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