So, is it shit?

Better than anything HBO has put out in a while.

like hannibal, yes

>>82259683
I enjoyed the first episode. Will continue until it disinterests me.

As someone who's never read the book and doesn't know what this story is actually about I thought the first episode was enjoyable.

Will watch.
That black chick with the unbirth scene was annoying though, they should have had at least picked a good looking one.

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fucken Freddie Rumsen

I really liked it

>>82260115
her not looking that good is the point of the whole thing though

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It's guaranteed to be shit after a season or two.

> The two are in a graveyard mourning their respective spouses, who died in a car crash while engaging in oral sex. Audrey, who has had time to mull the affair, is bitter and wants revenge. She argues that the act will provide closure. Meanwhile, Shadow is in something closer to a state of shock. According to Gaiman, Fuller and Green initially proposed that the fellatio take place, but Gaiman said he threatened to take extreme measures if that happened.
>“I’m like, ‘Okay, guys, if you do that, I will go and step in front of a bus, and I will leave a suicide note explaining exactly why this is your fault,’” Gaiman said. “They were like, ‘You really feel that strongly?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I really do. He would not do that, and it’s wrong, and it throws everything out of kilter.’ And they are like, ‘Yeah, but he’s just out of prison. Wouldn’t he want a blowjob?’

Everything is shit
So suck a dick
Nothing is universally loved

>>82259683
I wish they'd ease up on the music. Stillness and silence would make for a classier production. David Slade sucks either way

I liked the introduction, and will continue watching for swearengen

Thought it was pretty good.

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>>82260984
this.

After the act.

>>82259728
This is wrong and you're a retarded fag

>>82261374
There's not enough source material for more than one season. Especially working on how close an adaption that opening episode was.

I liked it, and I really thought I wouldn't. Gonna continue to watch.

>>82262087
yea I was expecting some trainwreck but was pleasantly surprised.

Pretty good not amazing or anything. Might get pick up by alot after a while, like most Starz shows.

>>82261374
Based Fuller

Low-T cuck Gaiman has probably never gotten a blowjob from his wife

>>82262078
Anansi Boys is easily enough for another season and it was actually better than American Gods imo.

i got a feeling they are going to drag out Shadow's time in that midwest town for a couple episodes at least.

>>82262242
You realise that Gaiman regularly fucks his fans and has cosplay threesomes with his wife and Stoya.

I liked it, good casting overall (although I'm always a bit annoyed when American productions won't just cast Middle Eastern actors for Egyptians). Something felt weird about the sound mixing though, sometimes the dialogue was hella low.

>>82262078
They already confirmed expanded roles for half the characers including the Djinn and introducing Jesus. Also new gods like Vulcan who is associated with guns

>>82262317
They don't have the rights for Anansi Boys. The BBC do.

>>82262400
> including the Djinn

really? that shit was the only one that actually scared me in the book, that's cool

>>82262078
There's definitely going to be at least two. Season one s only going to cover through House on the Rock.

Pretty good.

>>82262352
Proof?

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>>82262416

>>82262078
Gayman has been talking about writing a sequel for many years. He'll probably just give his sequel ideas to Fuller so he doesn't have to write the book.

>>82259683
Worth watching for Ian McShane. Dialogue is well written.

Just ignore the CGI.

>>82262582
The books meant to be coming out this year so I think he'll follow through, just depends how much the show influences the book, though he has an insane amount of influence on the show already considering that blow job thing

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>>82262438
he fucked her in that

I hate Gayman because he killed setting
>all new "stories"
>Shadow MC again
Come on. His story is over. I don't want gary stu shittery anymore

>>82261374
that scene was hilarious. first she calls him a BIG GUY then she begs him to let her suck his "gorgeous black cock". Is Fuller /ourguy/?

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>>82262438

>>82262610
To be fair, CGI is really fucking expensive, especially if the show is intensive over the course of a season and there are lots of one or few time use elements.

>>82259957
looked like Leftovers

>>82262772
I don't see them fucking.

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>>82262582
I think you're thinking of a different writer.

>>82262787
>CGI is really fucking expensive
it really isn't if you're not in a rush. most of this stuff could be done by a single guy on a computer in india or korea but it'd take many months. studios are in a hurry and compete for very limited slots with a couple big effects companies, which drives the prices up and leads directly to those inflated capeshit budgets that'll destroy hollywood.

>>82262871
Gayman is buddies with HIV Santa Claus though. #grrmisnotyourbitch

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html

>>82262787
>CGI is really fucking expensive
Not really. The prices are artificially inflated so the CGI-companies can make more money. Once the Chinese and Indians get enough processing power, decent CGI will be as cheap as dirt in the Ukraine.

>>82262623
>has an insane amount of influence on the show already
i was looking for it, but haven't seen his name in the credits, tho

>>82262977
He's executive producer, any and all changes from the source material go through him and have to be approved by him

>>82262977
preventing a moment that'd have been way out of character is hardly "insane" influence anyway

>>82262772
>fucking a pornstar
>not being a cuck

yea nah.

>>82263059
He wrote all the extended character roles, new characters and new scenes which were adapted for the teleplay by Green and Fuller

>>82263116
in a threesome. with his wife. at his wife's request.

sounds about as alpha as possible to me.

>>82262610
To be fair, the techno-god was originally a dark shades and duster wearing tips fedora autist straight outta the Matrix, so honestly adapting it to modern style is kind of okay.

>>82263147
that never happened, but assuming it did, its even double cuck.

>a woman who literally swallows semen and takes dicks for a living, a literal prostitute
>your wife requests she gets to join you two for sex
>your wife literally wants to bang another chick AND wants you to bang an actual prostitute

how is this not being a massive cuck?

>>82263148
weird-ass cyberpunk helmet thingie straight out of an early 90ies direct-to-video flick directed by albert pyun is "modern style"?

>>82263233
Because it fucking two women you fucking moron.

>>82259683
it's a meme show, taylor made for reddit

>>82263233
stoya isn't doing porn now. she's an artist and a writer. she left the porn industry after james deen raped her.

>>82262626
Need proof

>>82259683
I enjoyed the book, and I approve of the first episode, with the sole exception of the "Coming to America"-part, which I am certain would have been better if they'd stuck to the book. Of course, I understand the change, as most viewers wouldn't understand the method of sacrifice and the "eight-legged horse"-reference. Still, it could've been done a bit more tasteful IMO.

Main blacktor simply doesn't have the chops to keep this afloat.

>>82263233
Does cuckold mean something different in /pol/-speak?

>>82259683

There's one thing I don't get about the new gods is that the idea is that their power comes from people worshiping them, but people don't literally worship gods of TV and the internet. I mean sure TV and the internet are common in everyday life, but no one actually believes there are patron gods for them, like no one prays to the god of the internet to fix their router.

>>82259683

It depends, will Jesus show up and wreck everyone's face?

Complete, unadulterated shit. Bryan Fuller should be shot. Everything he makes is cheesy and terrible. Middlebrow and unwatchable.

>>82263429
Supposedly he's in the show, so maybe

He wasn't in the book

>>82263429
Jesus has a bigger role than in the book so probably. In the book he's too big to be dealing with the little gods shit and is backpacking in the middle east, or at least that's what we hear in an off hand mention

>>82263262
It's fucking a prostitute and letting your wife fuck and get fucked by another person.
>>82263283
Right. A former prostitute. My bad.
>>82263344
>everything I dont like is /pol/

I liked it. techno god was neat

>>82262952

What? do you think someone just types in "add explosion here" and if the computer has enough processing power it will do it?

CGI requires artistry and talent. The reason that CGI is so expensive is because it requires a lot of talent and involved work. Not because they require a lot of processing power.

And?

There's no way you can reframe this as him being a cuck, try as you might.

>>82263385
"Passive worship". If this was in the Malazan-universe, M00t would be an Ascendant by now.

>>82263661
Meant for >>82263580

>>82263504
The line in the book is somethign like "I saw Jesus hitchiking on the road to Kabul, but nobody stopped to pick him up."

>>82263660
You're a funny guy, I'll gas you last.

>>82259683
last week finished book. it was all right but not worth the hype around it. will try to watch the show but eh..no real interest

>>82263580
Nah, some things we don't like are 'tumblr' or 'reddit', not you though, you're /pol/.

>>82263667

Interesting, thanks.

>>82259957
FINALLY someone who shares my hate towards this pretentious garbage.

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>>82263283

>>82263667
as if anyone would worship him. and max few hundreds now and then thinking about sone guy would ascend anyone

>>82261374
>after a season or two

Isn't the book like 300 pages?

How the fuck do you adapt more than 1 season?

>>82263915
600+, as well additional scenes, characters and character roles written by Gaiman.
Should be about 3 seasons

>>82263830
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoya

>>82263915

I don't know either. Unless they really emphasize the war.

They need to just keep it at one season and just do the novel.

>>82263970
>Game of Thrones adaptation gets 10 episodes for 1000+ pages
>American Gods gets 24 episodes for ~600 pages

Jesus, no wonder GoT is fucking shit.

>>82263971
>ask for proof she was raped
>wikipedia article

maybe in the dystopian future we're creating it'll be admissible, but thankfully not yet

>>82264073
Games of Thrones it's like 600 pages as well if I remember correctly

>>82264099
You didn't specify that was what you meant.

>>82264127
>700 pages
>800 pages
>1000 pages
>750 pages
>1100 pages

An average of 870 pages per book.

Seems like American Gods has a sequel book, so about 900 pages for both novels.

Not convinced. Not digging the casting (but then that was to be expected, so willing to give it a pass) not really liking the tone shifts from the book (just look at the Odin summoning tale).

Not unenjoyable, worst ways to waste away an hour. Will have to do better.

>>82263697
There was an extended edition released a few years back (40 pages longer), and contains a meeting with Jesus in California

the book was a huge disappointment because it was shit while the premise sounded cool

>>82264073
the first and second seasons of GoT are pretty accurate to the books though

>>82261374

Depressing to read.

>>82264073
>>82264479
The 3rd and 4th aren't that far off either.

5 and 6 are where it jumps into full fanfiction.

It's stupid because instead of dragging a successful series for as long as possible until it gets boring like they usually do, they've instead decided to compact and skim it to make it shorter.

anybody just waiting for Ian McShane to say cocksuker?

>>82264650

Waiting for him to grow a beard.

>>82264627
after book 3 they had to start making changes though because affc and adwd just drag and drag and drag and nothing really happens

they fucked it all up but they didn't have much to work with in the first place

>>82264627
Instead of some half decent finale you'd rather have simpson tier never ending series?

>>82263830
check to status of james deen's career after she accused him on twitter.

>>82264366

I'm kinda afraid they're going to turn it into a minorities vs the man thing when the book was smart enough to make it about everyone with and against everyone else.

Making the Odin sacrifice an act self-mutilation instead of the killing of an innocent local really changes the tone, and the framing of things to come.

>>82264695
The problem here is that it won't be 'half decent', will it?

Yes I would rather have the 'grand theft dragon' arc, and others that it skipped, and replaced.

>>82260509

THE BIGGEST, BLACKEST PROSTITUTE YOU'VE EVER SEEN

>>82259683
The dialog was pretty awful. Everyone is a tripped up motormouth retard. Not one character is likable either. Also, the god of technology is lame as fuck and Shadow Moon is not a cool name.

But I'm curious so I'll keep watching for a bit.

>>82261374
>wanting a decadent protagonist

>>82265418
>Not one character is likable either.

Not saying this isn't a valid complaint, but this is consistent with the book. The two Egyptian gods later on are the most "likable" out of everyone but mostly it's just angry, impulsive fuckers everywhere.

>>82259683
just watched...yeah..not good at all. And why the heck did they change so many things? The viking stuff in book was great, really laid out, fat kid is not fat at all, the bison..also shadow and odin really doesn't look like I would imagine, but thats personal taste. I really doubt I will watch anything past 1st episode.

Is the shit. Best show and just the pilot.

>>82263826
You're on /tv/, most people here have plebeian taste and high levels of ignorance. So congratulations, I guess.

>>82265817
>fat kid is not fat at all
The modern stereotypical tech kid has been updated to a silicon valley douchebag as opposed to a basement dwelling katana weilder.

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And here I am, thinking that I was going to find the fine gentlemen ladies and inbetweens that made every Hannibal thread here so incredibly enjoyable.

But /tv/ got worse after I left last year if is possible.

>>82259728
I don't understand how you can be this stupid to be honest

>>82265947
true, but douche acting cool is not the same as a fat fuck tries to act cool, but is afraid to death when no one is watching

>>82262050
>>82266085
Dude, not the same anon but HBO lost their quality after they got rid of Rome and Carnivale. Their last great show was The Sopranos.

Your fanboyism is blinding.

>>82266169
Making Tech Boy a 4chan's anon is not realistic anymore. It could have been 10 years ago but now being geek and nerd is "cool" so having a skinnyfag hipster who tries too hard and will make himself TO LOOK skinny in the eyes of other people is just perfect.

>>82266192
I don't even know what to say if you think Rome and Carnivale are among the best hbo has to offer let alone as good as sopranos.

>>82259683

Unironically better than Legion.

>>82260509
Is he coming back later or did they waste him on being eaten by a cunt?

>>82266192
carnivale is one of the worst shows to ever air anywhere. it was a laugh track away from being bottom of the barrell terrible.

>>82263826
hannibal isn't pretentious, pretension is just part of the style because hannibal lecter is some sort of renaissance man

>>82266409
Anything is better than Legion

How much of the book was in the first episode? I've just started the book, read up to the point where Czernobog is introduced (I'm like 60 pages in). Pretty comfy so far.

>>82263385

I have seen people pray to various gods to fix the office printer. People do some crazy shit to relieve stress.

How are they going to do the Low-Key Lyesmith story?

>>82260107

This isn't another fucking "we'll show 1000 mysteries in the first episode then very very slowly drip feed you the answer to 950 of them over 12 episodes" show is it?

I can deal with that method of story telling once every so often but it seems every new show does it now. It's TV clickbait

>>82266819

Without panache.

>>82266898
nah, there is an overarching "mystery" throughout the book, but most of Shadow's adventures are self contained within a chapter or two.

It's pretty good actually. I liked the book though.

It reminds me of Carnivale.

>>82266690
Not that much, but the show isn't in the same order as the book

>>82266819
They have two actors for him and Mr.
World

>>82261374

Shadow is supposed to be a very level headed mild mannered guy who just loves his dead whore wife. Wednesday is the degenerate sex fiend who uses charms on young girls to fuck them. It would be weird if Shadow was degenerate too. Also gives more impact for the later cat-sex to show that it was irresistible

>>82267356
I figured as much, thanks..

>>82259683
Is it based off that book?
Didnt even know they making a tv show.
Book was okeish.

>>82259683
Thought it was pretty great. CGI was pretty crappy, but it's STARZ, and that cast is outstanding. Planning on sticking with it until I'm given a reason not to. Personally, Ian McShane is an inexplicable addiction I have, so his not only being in this, but being featured as prominently as he seems he will be should keep me watching for awhile.

>>82265148
kek

I want to be sucked into a negress gods giant vagina.

>>82259683
As if God wasn't founded by, Jesus.

Blasphemy.

>>82268522
America that is.

The whole reason this country is a thing is because the British still thought we were still the "weird" pilgrims & fucked off.

>>82262418
>including the Djinn
>
>really? that shit was the only one that actually scared me in the book

how, by threatening your sexuality? that wasn't a horror scene at all.

granted, the guy he switched places with got killed in the later crossfire, but that was just an unfortunate coincidence

>>82262942
ah, that famous post.

grrm has long since genuinely let us all down, of course.

>>82263385
>no one prays to the god of the internet to fix their router.

speak for yourself, man

So far better than Legion

>>82259728
>B-but muh GoT

>>82269076
Aahahahaahahahahaahahahaaahh
no

the only thing I didn't like was the Spartacus blood

>>82269101
you're an idiot

>>82264627
>they've instead decided to compact and skim it to make it shorter
Because GRRM's written himself into a corner you mong, if they followed the books to the letter then they'd run into the same problems GRRM ran into years ago hence him not being able to finish the bloody thing.

>>82262026
White men literally can't notice the difference

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>>82259683
it was atrocious beyond beleif. i hated every second of it. i hope this shit gets cancelled, i hope hbo goes bankrupt, i hope cable goes out of business, i hope hollywood crashes and burns, i hope western civilization collapses, and i hope earth is destroyed. all because this fucking show was so bad.

what god is Moon Shadow's prison friend?

>>82269239
GRRM knows where he's going, he's just too lazy to get there.

>>82269304
>what god is Moon Shadow's prison friend?

Low-Key Lyesmith. Say it fast several times.

>>82269350
it's my favorite, I really really like that actor, since the black donnellys. I have no idea why he isn't more popular. He's basically a better JGL

>>82263283
Artist and a w r I t e r
Artista onum librarum lax
Aqurtisium estua lyberaroiunoum
Qartis cet libea

>>82269323
nah, going nowhere slowly.

>>82269304
Answer: Loki. Low-Key Lyesmith. Gaiman didn't describe what the guy looked like closely,
so the read would probably assume that he has a gangster name or something. When his real name is revealed, the reader feels like a retard for not catching something so obvious in retrospect

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>>82269350
>Low-Key Lyesmith. Say it fast several times.
>mfw

Biggest grief for me is macho aggressive bullshit done in a way that kids find cool(50% comic/50% testosterone)

>>82269706
---> /r/feminism

>>82269706
This.

>muh fist fights
>muh blood and gore
>muh badass nigga

>>82262026
i would.

>>82269787
No, don't get me wrong, I don't mind the bloods, I get what they were trying , they just didn't succeed and by extension they made it extra bad.
Reminded me on 80-90 Stallone action flicks(not Rambo, more like Cobra) but without the good parts

>>82259683

It has potential, but the first 30 minutes were a little slow.

The sound design irritated me, though. Every shot was accompanied by a whoosh or the sound of rolling thunder or something.

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>>82269518
seriously I was just reading an article about Mr World and they literally fucked the whole show and told me the ending. what the fuck!!

>>82269916
worse ways to go

>>82270126
Yeah, that's on the wikipedia page too I think. They even cast two different actors for those roles, then fucking spoil it in interviews

>>82266819
Was the guy who told Shadow not to fuck with airport bitches Low-Key?
I think they're just going to continue showing him in flashbacks and not say his name out loud until the reveal. Or just not treat it as a twist at all.

>>82269518
Shadow realizing what an idiot he is for not catching that is one of my favorite parts of the book.

>>82259683
Turning a Native American protag into an African American is cultural appropriation

so am i the only one who just thought it was really fucking great?
never read the book though

>>82270994
They really did fuck up by not making him more ambiguous.

>>82270994
>this
There are plenty of Indian actors. But they had to force a black man into the role

>>82271099
>>82270994
blacks can be main characters now

get used to it white bois

>>82270994
His mom was black in the book, too. Although his skin was implied to be ambiguous probably due to his dad being literally a Norse god.

>>82267535
Yeah, wonder what they'll do for the reveal.

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>>82262610
>Ian McShane.

Does he imitate Pacino in all his roles?

>>82271034
it was cool yea

>>82262772
>>82262626
now i need to jerk off to stoya again
thanks a lot

>>82271144
I think a lot of people missed that Shadow was ambiguously brown in the book. I think Gaiman actually changed it to make his character description more explicit in the extended version of the book. Otherwise, we only have that Shadow's mom died from complications of sickle-cell disorder (so she was probably black).
Spoiler part for the book:

Is his dad "actually" a Norse god?
I might have misunderstood some of the book,
but I thought that the native american guy who the vikings hung in the flashback was actually Mr. Wednesday, since part of the story involved people literally making new gods. Plus, Mr.
Wednesday was described as having a very "leather" complexion

>>82263253
Compared to tech from almost 2 decades ago? Yes.

>>82263385
You know how you read a newspaper and have faith that every word on it is vetted and true and that the knowledge it imparts on your perception is therefore also truth?

Congrats, you just worshiped Media.

>>82271653
Yes and no, they created a new aspect of Odin when they did that, one which lived in and adapted to american culture. That's the way I interpreted it anyway with all the references to Odin hanging himself as a sacrafice of himself to himself, and the Odin Shadow ran into in Iceland proves that they can have other aspects as well.

>>82271653
He's an aspect of Odin adapted to the North American continent. Basically via faith the vikings "cloned" Odin, but because it was a different land he took on physical characteristics appropriate to the land. In a fuzzy way, it's like quantum entanglement because they're both Odin and yet the same Odin, just with different fashion sense, presumably with complete knowledge of each other yet indivisible, capable of existing in two places at the same time, doing two different things, and being aware of what both parts are doing and where both parts are simultaneously.

>>82263385
>but people don't literally worship gods of TV and the internet
m8...

>>82263385

I always loved Kirby's take on this in the New Gods:

>And the New Gods? We're as old as time, constantly remade. Constantly reborn with each turning of the wheel.
>No WORSHIPPERS? FOOL!!! LOOK ABOUT YOU! Each time a mortal turns on a computer, puts a piece of bread in the toaster, opens a door, strikes a match, or wonders at the stars...he WORSHIPS at the altar of the New Gods.

>>82273330
>>82273244
>>82271653
Has Gaiman ever actually discussed or clarified this in more detail?

>>82271653

That's why I don't really like the casting choice. Not nearly ambiguous enough (and then look at poor Ibis). I mean, I can leave with it, the complete lack of finesse, the transition from what was a fairly grounded magic realism rendition to this image over substance adaptation is much worse than some minor casting quibble.

>>82273362

Wait, that one was Simonson, not Kirby, was it? Been so long I'm not so sure anymore.

Where can I find an African goddess to fuck me to death?

>>82273422
Nah, he pretty much just hand-waves it as "it's a god thing". He rarely feels the need to explain the mechanics of the miraculous.

>>82273782
New Orleans.

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I loved him in the novel, but I was not expecting Mad Sweeney to steal the show last night.

>>82262078

They're folding all of the post-American Gods material (Black Dog, Anansi Boys and the Monarch of the Glenn, as well as the forthcoming sequel) into the show's upcoming seasons. Gaiman has also said that he'll begin work in earnest on the sequel after he finishes the kid's book he's working on.

>>82274297
I still can't believe this guy is Liev Schreiber's younger brother.

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if I never liked the book and basically forced myself to finish it and even then barely remember it.....will I like the show version

>>82274297
fave so far

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>>82274428
Sure. What could go wrong?

>>82274428
If you enjoy Fullers visuals and style then yeah.
And depends what aspect of the book you didn't like.

>>82274492

I don't know I thought the book was pretty gay from what I remembered and that's not much.

somewhat corny and convoluted and just mythology name dropping.

>>82261374

> when the show runners adapting your book are retards and don't even have a basic understanding of the main character

Were they inspired by D&D?

I like that they put Vulcan in, makes sense that he'd still have power nowadays. Come to think of it I wonder what Bacchus is doing.

>>82274297
I just can never unremember this guy as nick from the wire, its all i could think of during the scene

>>82274645
Then maybe give it a shot.
It's packaged a bit differently compared to the book. I wasn't all that invested in the book from what I can remember (been about 5 years). But the first ep really had an unusual atmosphere that managed to feel enticing and refreshing compared to most other shows.
Now it depends how they'll continue to structure the story and what kind of liberties they'll take.

>>82263826
>>82259957
Yeah same here. People complained that such a ""masterpiece" had low ratings and canceled too early. It was deserved. Could barely finish first season. It was all style over substance. Not even good directing, it was just generic network shit show with some cool looking color palette.

>>82269207
welcome to /tv/

>>82274835

Completely blew my mind when I saw that. He was just totally absorbed into Mad Sweeney. Fucker can act, apparently.

COLLEGE BOYS AIN'T SHIT

>>82274875
>style over substance

Why do plebs always fall back on this """"""""criticism"""""""""""" when they watch something that's above their level?

>>82274413
Decent, I loved Monarch of the Glen and Black Dog.
Would Anansi Boys be a proper spinoff though? Think in some ways I prefer that to American Gods, less portentous and more simply entertaining.

>>82259683
I liked it. Everyone in yesterday's thread seemed to like it too.

>>82259683
If it's like anything else Neil Gaiman writes, yes.

>>82275053
Anansi Boys with forest whitaker and denzel would be fucking great.

>>82270994
>>82271055
>>82271099
Nowhere in the book her mother was described or labeled as Native American. She could have been a hipster African woman traveling around. Most of you don't think rich black people existed in the 70s but they did.

>>82274413
>Monarch of the Glenn
I really wonder if Mr.Alice and Smith will make an appearance or is Neil saving them for something seperate like he did with the Anansi Boys

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>>82274645
>I don't know I thought the book was pretty gay

I guess this is it for you, dudebro.

>>82275286
DJINNED

>>82275029
>>82274875


Because the ones who always use that to shit on a show or film are the ones who enjoy Transformers, The Walking Dead and think Marvel movies are good.

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>>82275029
*tips*

>>82274297
I thought that was adam sandler for a while

>>82275146

Who's playing Mr. Nancy?

>>82262772

What a fucking creep

He's got that sex fiend look. Like he enjoys pizza and pizza related degeneracy

>>82275468
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO1c7YWIYsE

>>82259683
Book was good.

>>82275468

Orlando Jones is who they got now and he isn't too bad. kind of nerdy to be playing mr nancy though.

i was thinking Mos Def could play mr nancy or even spider if they couldn't get denzel.

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>>82275286
Honestly can't wait.

>>82275820
what is this

>>82275719

He definitely has that 'gentleman' look to him, but I was expecting someone twenty years older. I'm sure he'll kill it, though.

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>>82276113
Most /tv/fags will be too but with one hand they will complain that this show is shit for not showing lesbian fucking instead and with the other hand they will fap with the scene.

>>82276208
Are you a faggot?

>>82276264
Bi. Why?

>>82276297
Post your dick

Reminds me of carnevale

>>82276458
Why?

>>82274808
The pills in the intro makes me think Drugs is one of the new gods, which is essentially just a permutation of Bacchus.

>>82275162
But we're not talking about his mother. We're talking about Shadow, who other characters comment on not being able to tell his ethnicity multiple times.

>>82276734
...and people here are claiming that he's Native American when he, like his mother, was never labeled as one? Because his father is white so the other 50% of his DNA should be obviously not white?
So yeah we're talking about his fucking mother.

>>82276734
Honestly, as dumb as this may sound, he doesn't seem black to me. At least, not what I think of by black American. His facial structure is different, more caucasoid. It doesn't matter anyway really.

>>82276920
Well, he's black European.

post the bilquis webm

>>82276734
remember that actors aren't just materialized from a computer, they have to find someone who actually fits beyond just basic physical features too, they might not have found this racial enigma who also fit the role. But I've never read the book so I don't know how important it was.

>>82276734
I swear to fucking god if I read one more argument about Shadow's race I'm spoiling it for all the showfags. SHUT THE FUCK UP

What's the fucking deal with HBO not putting their new episodes on HBO GO?

What's the fucking point of having it if they don't put the new shit on?

>>82276208
Whatever, let them if it keeps them feeling like they didn't lose het points on an anonymous fart forum.

>>82277446
This is on Starz, pham. Not HBO.

>>82277498
Oh shit, my bad.

My point sort of still stands, though.

It took them forever to put The Young Pope on GO.

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>>82277515
On the whole, I really only see a delay for This Week or Real Time. I suppose excluding The Young Pope, I've always seen shows become available shortly after they premiere. In the case of GoT, it becomes available as the premiere begins.

>>82259683
No I quite liked it.

>>82268570
>>82268570
>because the British still thought we were still the "weird" pilgrims & fucked off.
Probably the dumbest post I've read today.

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>Sweeneys Irish accent

Not as bad as I expected

>>82277037
It's really not important in the book. Shadow himself doesn't have much of a presence.

>>82277037
It's kind of important that he's mixed, but this guy clearly is. I'm not sure why some people complain that he's "too black" when he looks at least partially Indian

>>82260107
No. The show really exaggerates a lot of the violence and sex.

>>82266898
No, once you understand the premise there's very little mystery past character motivations

>>82259683
It's a good adaptation so far.
I don't like the lead actor's performance as Shadow. He emotes too much, should be more taciturn. I have a hard time believing he grew up a quite bookworm. And I doubt anyone would suspect THAT guy of having Native American blood.
Don't like how nutty Low Key seems even though I like the actor.
Really don't like the racial symbolism they added in the first episode.
But overall, it's looking like a good adaptation so far. McShane as Wednesday is brilliant.

>>82278133
Yeah, he was surprisingly fine for... an American Jew playing an Irishman? Strange casting, but it worked out

I guess I shouldn't have doubted him, he was Nick Sobotka too

>>82268950
You thought it was a coincidence? I thought that was a subtle hint that the "war" was beginning and the guy he switched with was the target.

>>82263283
Allegedly. She was so confident in her charges she took it to the Court of Social Media.

>>82273354
PRAISE KEK

>>82274908
>>82274835
did you guys see Orange is the New Black? he's really fucking good in that, too

Besides the over the top gorefest I enjoyed the first ep. Seems pretty faithful so far but I havn't read the book in 6 years. Casting seems pretty perfect. Really looking forward to new episodes. plus im really diggin Low-Key.
>dont piss off airport bitches

wait, was emily browning really cheating?

>>82264851
Yeah, but they had to do that because your average viewer doesn't know mythology and won't realize the significance of Wednesday's one eye unless they have it "pointed out" to them with the new story.

>>82279713
yes

Show is style over substance, but the visuals are crazy good for a tv show

>>82275286
g-gay as in lesbian right? pls...

>>82280078
Get ready for hot djinni man on man sex, anon. The only lesbian we get doesn't have a sex scene

>6 books a week

dunno about that

>>82280142
I mean, what does one actually do in prison besides sit on your ass and do menial labor the state/feds line up for you?

>>82280142
It's not that difficult if you have nothing to do.

>>82279744
why?

>>82280175
lift dem weights

>>82280142
In the book, Shadow does nothing in jail but exercise, coin tricks, and read because he doesn't want to get in trouble and extend his sentence. That's what Low Key means in the book when he talks about prison trying "to keep you in prison."

>>82280231
she was lonely

it was an affair, not really complicated

>>82267615
I think the post is more meant to highlight that the showrunners are fucking idiots, not that OP was supportive of what they wanted to do

>>82280276
i HATE her now!

>>82275367
Those are the same people who like Hannibal though

So is shadow the son of odin?

>>82280370
No, he is Odin's wife's son.

>>82280352
if that were true it wouldn't have gotten shit ratings. checkmate

>>82279305
Same here, haven't read the book in years but I thought Shadow was supposed to be a mixed race guy that gets stereotyped all the time by people but is actually a fairly smart and moral dude that was a skinny nerd when he was a kid.

The guy playing him looks like a full on arab and acts like a prison thug that is constantly trying to suppress a nigga moment and wanted kudos from his dead wife for learning math in prison. seriously weird portrayal.

>>82280477
>The guy playing him looks like a full on arab
The fact he's also been called Indian and black in this thread kinda proves they did good casting. The only similar ethnicity no one in this thread has compared him to is native American which is talked about in the book

>>82280637
Isn't he like, actually some Indian-Black-White mix? Or is he just some ludicrously ambiguous black man

I'm surprised how close to the book episode 1 is.

>>82280675
Someone at some point said his mother was black, but in the book he is described as having coffee colored skin and gray eyes. and his name and a couple other moments in the book I can't remember allude to native american ancestry. I always assumed he was half white and half native maybe with some black.

So whats the context of the unbirthing scene? Shes a goddess who turns giant and absorbs guys she has sex with to be younger or something?

>>82279305
>Really don't like the racial symbolism they added in the first episode.
Was he lynched in the books too? Because I liked it as a part of the odin theme, since odin is also famous for hanging. Even if it's just meaningless symbolism fuckery.

>weirded out by why they changed Coming to America so much
>get to the end of the episode
>they've now attempted to hang Shadow who is ambiguously native american
I mean I guess its still in there?

>>82281429

As I said here >>82264851, on top of the tonal shift in presentation, I'm kinda afraid of the re-framing.

The Gods are not not nice to one another. Odin is not nice. We'll get to see later on if they manage to save some nuances.

>>82281429
they changed it obviously so the finale has more impact and helps non-bookfags get the end-game

>>82280776
I meant the actor. Shadow is ambiguous on purpose with very tiny clues.

>>82280175
few prisons actually have cons doing menial labor. most guys literally just sit in their cell and lift weights in the yard. 6 books a week is not that surprising.

>>82281196
>Was he lynched in the books too?
Not as far as I can remember. I think they just beat him up and threw him out of the car.

I like the main protagonist. He's pretty cute desu :3

>>82282569
>main protagonist
WHAT OTHER KIND OF PROTAGONIST IS THERE REEEEEEE

>>82283002
Deuteragonists, what morons refer to as secondary protagonists

>>82282552

It's another hint they threw towards the viewers about who Odin is, imo. For the incredibly dense among them.

You can't hang a man who works for the god of the gallows.

>>82259683

WE WAS KANGZ

i read the book ama

haven't watched it yet

>>82259957
finally

At one point he turned some guy into a tree and then dragged him into the middle of a parking lot. Then there was a silo filled with dozens of people. Too much.

>>82280785
To show how some gods get their "faith" and power in ways other than traditional prayer services.

>>82284140
did you like it? I thought it was pretty good.

>>82280785
She got bigger for practice reasons... how else do you shoot a scene of a woman absorbing a full-grown man otherwise? But it also works if you consider it a metaphor. His "worship" is making her greater.

>>82285024
yeah i liked it. but i adore sandman so i'm biased towards anything gaiman

>>82280339
You're supposed to. Her betrayal adds a dimension to the rest of the story that wouldn't have been there otherwise.

>>82279417
He's a Canadian Jew, actually.

>>82285140
I don't think you're supposed to hate her. You're supposed to empathize with shadows feeling of betrayal but still be fond of her.

>>82285154
I didn't realize he was related to Liev Schreiber. Why did his parents name him Pablo? I assumed he was just some ultra lanky Spanish Jew or something.

>>82285058
>I adore sandman so i'm biased towards anything gaiman

same my nigga. i fan girl out at like everything he writes.

>>82285215
Well okay, "hate" is a little strong. But her betrayal is so profound and Shadow, of all men, so undeserving, that it stains your perception the character, especially in my opinion for male readers, and stays with her. (Even she thinks so.) That explains a lot about her character later on.

>>82285404
Sure that I can see. You're not supposed to be too fond of her or anything for sure.

yes and blackwashing AM/WF

hur, why not do something different if you want to do that at all

>tfw seen the whole season
it gets bigly better after the first episode, which I think was weakest of the season
it's built up kinda like leftovers s2

>>82286584
What the fuck does bigly mean and why should I believe you? I enjoyed episode 1 so if it is all uphill from here that is rad, but whisper to us sweet secrets to see if they match up next week.

>>82286725
better question - why shouldn't you believe me? you should believe me bigly.
almost every episode new characters are introduced who are a lot better than anything in the pilot. next week is gillian anderson and peter stormare. first scene takes place on a slave ship