American Gods is one of the strangest series ever to air on American television. I say that with the authority of a critic who put Hannibal, the last series from American Gods co-producer Bryan Fuller, in the number-one spot on his top-ten list two years running. Hannibal was an aggressively strange show: bloody, perverse, and intellectually playful, and more interested in dreamlike atmosphere and imagery than in traditional storytelling. The influence of three Davids — Lynch, Fincher, and Cronenberg — was always apparent, and there were times, especially in season three, when Hannibal got as close to abstraction as a series with a plot and characters could get. As a piece of storytelling, American Gods makes Hannibal look like The Andy Griffith Show.American Gods Season 1-3 Download.
The pilot starts with a prologue about a band of Norse explorers making landfall in the Americas and suffering horribly, turning, in desperation, to supernatural forces that seem to ignore them. The first four episodes all have prologues like this: little self-contained stories about the relationship between humans and gods, or prayers and actions, that are thematically adjacent to the main show but exactly a part of it. They’re parables attached to a show which itself has the feel of a parable.American Gods Season 1-3 Download.
The main series takes its sweet time introducing its main character, Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle of The 100), a man who gets released from prison at the same time that he learns his wife Laura (Emily Browning) has died in a car wreck. In time, Shadow Moon will fall into the orbit of Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane), a rascally con man who waxes philosophical about everything under the sun (a perfect role for McShane).
The show then becomes a picaresque narrative, and at times a straight-up road movie, with Mr. Wednesday and Shadow Moon crisscrossing the United States in a big, old American car, contacting various supernatural figures and having conversations with them.