It also unfortunately falls sway to the worst, most self-indulgent excesses of prestige television, namely terrible pacing, prodigal violence, and a thuddingly unsubtle score that often feels better suited to a high-budget porn film.Īmerican Gods, which premieres Sunday, has a fiendish task when it comes to translating Gaiman’s 517-page novel to the screen-and in the first three episodes (four were made available to critics) the seams are showing. Adapted by Bryan Fuller ( Hannibal) and Michael Green ( Kings) from the 2001 novel by Neil Gaiman, the eight-episode show fantasia of ancient mythology and Americana is gorgeously conceived, vastly imaginative, and ludicrously over the top. an American treasure.It’s a shame the second season of True Detective snagged Leonard Cohen’s “ Nevermind” for its opening credits, because the song-menacing, omnipotent, maddeningly vague, and delivered in a husky, bourbon-soaked basso profundo-is downright perfect for the new Starz show American Gods. "Neil Gaiman, a writer of rare perception and endless imagination.
a real emotional richness and grandeur that emerge from masterful storytelling." -Peter Straub "American Gods is sexy, thrilling, dark, funny and poetic." -Teller, of Penn & Teller "Saying Neil Gaiman is a writer is like saying Da Vinci dabbled in the arts." - Minneapolis Star Tribune Those who are meeting him for the first time may be surprised at just how good he is." - St. Those who are familiar with Gaiman's earlier work will find a satisfying yarn by a familiar master storyteller. by turns thoughtful, hilarious, disturbing, uplifting, horrifying and enjoyable - and sometimes all at once, in a curious sort of way. "Mystery, satire, sex, horror, poetic prose - American Gods uses all these to keep the reader turning the pages." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel.It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece. One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming - a battle for the very soul of America. His wife has been killed a mysterious stranger offers him a job.
Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down.
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