Behind-the-scenes turmoilsent Fuller and Green packing.
Nearly two long years later,American Godsreturns as a too-familiar tale of superpowered misfits assembling.
from a shadowy bad-guy HQ.
Credit: Starz
Hard to know who blame here, and reports of problematic production plagued this second season.
But you feel the reduction of ambition.
The first two episodes shed the tantalizing (and, presumably, money-burning) Coming To/Somewhere in America segments.
Scene-stealing Gillian Anderson has taken her talents toSex Education.
There is a lengthy Shadow flashback, the kind of tragic-origin sequence that felt played out whenDaredevildid it twice.
Im not trying to be glib with these references.
It could be obtuse or even incoherent.
Season 2 commits a greater sin: It punishingly expository, and boring.
So, what exactly is the House on the Rock?
asks Laura Moon (Emily Browning.)
You want a lot of things fromAmerican Gods, but we dont needThe Giftedwith swears.
The talented cast is trying hard.
Orlando Jones dials his well-dressed deity Mr. Nancy up to 11.
But consider yourself warned: Do not worship falseGods.C-
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