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Counterpart: The Best Show You’re Not Watching

By Abe Friedtanzer

February 16, 2019

If you haven’t heard of the TV series Counterpart, you’re not alone, but it’s time to get familiar with it. The news from earlier this week that the show has been cancelled by Starz just ahead of its second season finale is immensely disappointing, but each of the twenty episodes already produced is absolutely worth…

Page to Screen: American Gods 1.08: “Come to Jesus” Review

By David Cranmer

June 19, 2017

The season finale sees the long overdue returns of Anansi and Bilquis. While Mr. Nancy (Orlando Jones) is tailoring suits for big cheese Wednesday (Ian McShane) and his henchman Shadow (Ricky Whittle), he decides he must tell a story. One of a queen. We get the rundown of Bilquis (Yetide Badaki), watching her status slowly…

Page to Screen: American Gods 1.07: “A Prayer for Mad Sweeney” Review

By David Cranmer

June 12, 2017

At the Ibis and Jacquel funeral home, the bodies are piling up and keeping the godly duo busy. But Jacquel notes Ibis’s fingers are itching to return to writing and excuses his partner to begin another Coming to America, this one beginning in 1721. Ibis writes: “It is fine fiction that America was founded by…

Page to Screen: American Gods 1.06: “A Murder of Gods” Review

By David Cranmer

June 5, 2017

The Coming to America segments have been my personal favorites thus far in the first season of American Gods, so much so that they often steal the show. But what a disappointment this week’s opening turned out to be. Maybe it was the slow-mo action scene that lacked any palpable tension as a group of…

Page to Screen: American Gods 1.04: “Git Gone” Review

By David Cranmer

May 22, 2017

Every episode of American Gods has ended with me longing for more. All the Coming to America vignettes have been pitch perfect and the acting top-notch across the board, but if I hadn't read the extraordinary Neil Gaiman novel, I don't believe I would care what comes next and—like my two viewing companions—would have bailed.…

Vote for Your Favorite God from American Gods

By Crime HQ

May 16, 2017

    Don’t see your favorite god listed? Tell us who your favorite is in the comments below!

Page to Screen: American Gods 1.03: “Head Full of Snow” Review

By David Cranmer

May 15, 2017

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is a masterpiece of early 21st-century works, and a big reason for this triumph is the seemingly disjointed threads that make up the narrative—specifically the Coming to America vignettes that explore how multitudes of cultural immortals like Odin, Anansi, and others arrived on the North American shores. Reading Gods is a…

Page to Screen: American Gods 1.02: “The Secret of Spoons” Review

By David Cranmer

May 8, 2017

Another commendable “Coming to America” opening as Mr. Nancy (Orlando Jones) makes his appearance, in 1697, in the belly of a Dutch slave ship bound for the New World as Anansi, a trickster god, in the form of a spider crawling in the hull. The spider morphs into Anansi, who doesn’t pull any punches letting…

Page to Screen: American Gods 1.01: “The Bone Orchard” Review

By David Cranmer

May 1, 2017

For many centuries, immigrants to America brought their gods with them. Once upon a time, these immortals were all-powerful, commanding unrivaled veneration. But now, in this modern age where fickle Americans worship media, drugs, technology, celebrity, guns—you name it—the old deities have lost their edge. They now exist in human form, vying for just a…

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