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American Gods · Season 1 · Starz

American Gods Season 1

American Gods Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.6/10. 8 episodes on Starz from 30 April 2017.

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BollyMeter8.6/10Season 1 earned a 92-percent Rotten Tomatoes score on the strength of Bryan Fuller and Michael Green's visually audacious direction and Ian McShane's career-best small-screen work. Critics described it as one of the most distinctive premieres of 2017.

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What BollyAI Thinks

The debut season of American Gods was a critical event. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green brought Neil Gaiman's novel to Starz with a visual grammar unlike anything else on television - each 'Coming to America' vignette a short film in its own right, the main narrative a road-movie through a mythologically haunted heartland. Ian McShane's Mr. Wednesday is one of television's great magnetic presences, and Ricky Whittle's Shadow provides the grounded perspective through which Gaiman's baroque cosmology lands. The 92-percent Rotten Tomatoes score reflected how decisively Season 1 announced its intent. The show moved like a fever dream and trusted its audience to follow.

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92%critics positive
  • “McShane, giving the runaway performance highlight of the series, does his best to charm us into submission.”
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Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1The Bone Orchard8.2

    A sharp premiere turns Shadow’s funeral journey into a trap, with grief as the bait and erasure as the threat.

    The moment: The brutal Norse landing sequence - pure aesthetic provocation that tells the audience exactly what kind of show this is.

    Full review of E1 →