Martin Carr reviews the second episode of American Gods… American Gods is more of a mood than set of narrative ideas. It welcomes you in from the cold with thick blankets, a roaring fire and steaming cup of mulled wine. You let your guard down being wooed by the visual majesty of dandelion seeds being […]

Martin Carr reviews the first episode of American Gods… American Gods has a petulant swagger, hunkering self-assurance and arrogance backed up by a conceited faith in its source material. From the opening frame to a jaw dropping closing salvo ‘The Bone Orchard’ delivers on visual panache, audacious invention, hard R rated sexual congress and violence […]

Martin Carr reviews the season 3 finale of American Gods… Seedy summit meetings attended by undesirable people of power happen every day.  A gathering of individuals with opposing ideologies come together in order to gain an advantage. Agendas are cloaked, intentions diverse and wriggle room minimal. In the aftermath of Laura Moon’s assassination attempt diplomacy […]

Martin Carr reviews the penultimate episode of American Gods season 3… Lakeside sacrifice, gold coin reincarnation and tenuous peace talks lay the groundwork for this penultimate episode. A convergence of opposing ideologies is imminent as new and old are drawn together out of necessity. Political pacts might be mooted, ceasefires negotiated and blood oaths sworn […]

Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of American Gods season 3… Sexual liberation can come in many forms and American Gods embraces that notion with open arms. Weaving Chinese folklore together with contemporary attitudes on attraction, gender fluidity and individual identity episode eight feels like a return to form. Myths and legends intertwine, confrontations are brutally […]

Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of American Gods season 3… This feels like a reckoning. A coalition of opposing forces gathered en mass for the sole execution of one singular purpose. Retribution brought forth by eternal deities and rained down upon one specific individual. Scavengers are closing in ready to extol a price upon […]

Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of American Gods season 3… There is something inherently humanising about a love story which stretches back centuries. Weathered by war and forever smitten by one affair of the heart, ‘Conscience of the King’ revels in the one true weakness of all entities. As a grizzled Odin and his […]

Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of American Gods season 3… Tales of technical innovation, demonstrations of genuine power and a side order of Seventies cinema make this episode come alive. Ruminations on the afterlife, a silky smooth voice over and Yetide Badaki in full flow, also ensure this fifty minutes of fulsome television flies. […]