They’re gettin’ the pantheon back together, man! Wednesday and Shadow Moon meet a series of deities from around the world, up to and including an idol of the silver screen itself.

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But the residual thrill you get from watching the show do its version of a movie trope as familiar and beloved “the team comes together” is where this episode’s pleasures begin and end. Alternately corny and cringeworthy, it otherwise leads you to suspect that American Gods is material tailor made to bring out the worst in Bryan Fuller. It reduces his visual spectacle to mere excess and flattens his writing from operatic to dime- store paperback.

GIF: Starz. Let’s begin at the beginning: a flashback prologue set in the hold of a slave ship in 1. The honking jazz saxophone from Brian Reitzell’s perpetually hyperactive and overbearing score that accompanies the scene is enough to let us know we’re in trouble right away; it’s like something out of Billy Crystal’s “Jazz Man” character. Gacy House Full Movie Online Free.

As the sax wails away, one of the slaves begins praying aloud to Anansi, the West African spider god. Inexplicably, the subtitles that translate his prayer into English translate it into broken English — “I will bring you gifts. Gifts of leather, and stew, and silks, and best wine. Please, I don’t know where is my mother” — as is if to emphasize the man’s foreignness even while making him comprehensible to the viewer. Anansi overlooks this teeth- grindingly poor choice on the part of the writing and appears anyway, though the form he selects is no less confounding. When not in his original, less than impressive CGI- spider form, he’s played by Orlando Jones as an anachronistic mid- 2. The speech he gives the kidnapped men (in English, albeit with a hint of jive just to remind viewers he represents a bunch of white guys’ idea of black culture) regales them with the centuries of racist horror about to befall them and their descendants in America.

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The awful score, Jones’s tryhard performance, and the “I can’t believe we’re using this world- historical human rights atrocity as a backdrop for a CGI spider god’s big entrance” effect dull the impact even its best moments. It does have some, though: “Shit, you all don’t know you black yet,” Anansi says at one point.

Let me be the first to tell you: You are all black.”  It’s an efficient and bleakly funny way to illustrate the absurdity behind the horror; it’s just too bad the rest of the scene is absurd by accident, not on purpose. Watch All Is Bright Online Hitfix more. GIF: Starz. After Anansi incites a mutiny by the slaves that burns and sinks the ship, enabling him to crawl on shore via driftwood from the wreck, we cut back to the future, where Shadow and Wednesday’s road trip truly begins. Eventually, anyway, after Shadow first has his salary doubled by his new boss following the run- in with the so- called “Technical Boy” that saw him lynched and left for dead, then goes to his old house to pack up his and his late wife Laura’s belongings. I never want to hear another complaint about The Americans and Better Call Saul taking too long to do things, not after witnessing director David Slade pull out all the visual stops just to show Shadow using packing tape on a series of cardboard boxes. Clearly the idea is to emphasize the drudgery of the task, but when you film it the same way you film slaves breaking chains or demons beating a man half to death — or really, every single other thing on the show — that idea gets lost.

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At any rate, the sequence is superfluous: the juxtaposition of Shadow’s sweet dream about Laura that night (“No, you’re just having a bad dream,” she says to reassure him that she never died — right before he wakes up) with the dick pic from his best friend he finds on her cracked phone tells us all we need to know about how difficult this is for him to do. Watch My Name Is Bruce Streaming more. GIF: Starz. Noticing a pattern here? Throughout the episode, an occasional flash of intelligence, insight, emotion, or just plain entertainment is buried beneath a stew of overbaked cinematography, ploddingly obvious scoring, and weird ethnic stereotyping (up to and including having captured slaves pray to a fucking pimp). For example, there’s something kind of cool about the new Hollywood god Shadow encounters, in the form of a bank of flatscreen TVs through which Lucille Ball talks to him and offers to give him a job so he’ll be on the winning side of the coming war with Wednesday. But the dialogue is a sophomoric litany about movies, TV, and technology turning us into brainwashed sheeple. Actor Gillian Anderson plays the Lucy- god, for some reason, since she looks about as much like Lucille Ball as, well, Lucille Ball looks like Gillian Anderson.

That cheeseball Lewis Carroll paraphrase is the payoff for the scene? Come on, folks — a show about the Power of Story ought to do better than that. GIF: Starz. After an interlude showing us the continued depredations of the love goddess Bilquis, who’s still inserting a series of lovers into her cosmic vagina but is now doing so with visual effects and music from Reitzell that rips off Under the Skin almost as shamelessly as Stranger Things did, we resume contact with Wedneday and Shadow. They’ve traveled to Chicago for a meeting with the Zorya sisters (led by Cloris Leachman, doing decent work with half- baked fish- out- of- water writing) and Czernobog (Peter Stormare, doing an Old World version of his nihilist character from The Big Lebowski who we’re now supposed to find frightening instead of funny), Slavic deities Wednesday needs for his big plan.

Czernobog cribs a speech about the way airguns have destroyed the once honorable profession of killing cows in a slaughterhouse from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, then swipes the “playing board games with Death” thing from The Seventh Seal; He has a cool bleeding sledgehammer, but that one drop of “ooh, cool” amid an ocean of “oh, brother” is really not enough to make the trip worthwhile. Or the episode. Or, I’m increasingly afraid, the whole show. GIF: Starz. Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) writes about TV for Rolling Stone, Vulture, the Observer, and anyplace that will have him, really. He and his family live on Long Island.

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