Ian McShane returns as mullet-sporting Norse deity Odin
“Bonkers” doesn’t begin to do justice to seasons one and two of American Gods. Amazon Prime Video’s megabucks adaptation of the cult Neil Gaiman novel gave us Ian McShane as mullet-sporting Norse deity Odin, Gillian Anderson as a gender-flipped supernatural David Bowie and former Hollyoaks actor Ricky Whittle playing a brooding All American badboy named “Shadow Moon”. It was more barking than the afterparty at Crufts.
It’s still quite out there as it returns for an addictively outrageous third series. This is made clear from the outset with a sequence in which McShane’s “Mr Wednesday” – aka Wotan, aka Odin – crowd surfs at a heavy metal concert (headlined by Marilyn Manson). He does so while dressed like Thor from the Marvel comics. It’s as if someone at last decided to make a Lovejoy film only to put the guys from Game of Thrones in charge.
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American Gods has lost more than a few of the core characters that made the show’s first two seasons so compelling, the network’s barreling into a third chapter of Shadow Moon’s story that Neil Gaiman is confident will still be able to captivate audiences.
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During a panel at this year’s digital-only New York Comic Con Metaverse event, Gaiman joined
American Gods’ cast to discuss what season three has in store for the warring gods and otherworldly beings. Gaiman insisted that in season three,
American Gods has a firmer grasp on who its players are and the series will give a number of its characters more depth. Actor Ricky Whittle specifically noted that, following season two’s revelations about Shadow Moon’s heritage, he’s going to begin seriously questioning what his true place in the world is. Season three, Whittle explains, brings Shadow to Lakeside, an important location from the original novel that here takes on a new significance.
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