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American Gods’ season finale is a leap of faith
“This is all too big. Too much going on at once.” That’s how Mr. Nancy starts “Come To Jesus,” the season finale of Amer…
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Late in the season, American Gods reveals a heart of gold
I’ve hugely enjoyed the first season of American Gods: admired its range and its technical daring, thrilled with its…
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An incendiary American Gods turns the god of fire to the god of firepower
“What the fuck are you?” Laura asks Mad Sweeney in “A Murder Of Gods.” “I mean, what the fuck are any of you, but first…
American Gods has made Laura Moon one of its most compelling characters
When we speak to Emily Browning on the phone Friday, she’s nervous about what people will make of Sunday’s American Gods
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American Gods’ “Git Gone” is an existential wail wrapped in a heist tale
Previous episodes of American Gods have been riffing on road movies, but the flashbacks of “Git Gone” add up to a…
A “vulgar woman” confronts Laura in this American Gods exclusive
[This post includes plot points from season one of American Gods, which is currently unfolding on Starz.]
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American Gods’ premiere is an audacious new incarnation of Gaiman’s novel
In its premiere episode, American Gods is as sweeping as the Neil Gaiman novel from which the series is adapted and as…
Ian McShane wages war in new American Gods trailer
If you watched previous American Gods previews and thought, “Hmm, that’s not nearly as bloody as I’d have guessed a…
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara reunite for an amazing Sundance Ghost Story
When it snows, it buries. Sorry to cutely twist an idiom, but in both a figurative and a meteorological sense, that…
Emily Browning croons “New York Groove” in the teaser for Golden Exits
We’re always interested in indie writer-director Alex Ross Perry here at The A.V. Club. His nearly-no-budget sophomore…
Who would you like to see on Game Of Thrones?
This week’s question comes from TV Editor Erik Adams and is inspired by this weekend’s big premiere:
Legend’s Emily Browning to star in Starz’s American Gods
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the central trio of Starz’s American Gods has been completed, as Emily Browning (Le…
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Tom Hardy’s dual performance justifies the rote gangster drama Legend
In the middling period crime drama Legend, Tom Hardy gives another of his indelible supporting performances, playing…
Chicago, see Tom Hardy (and Tom Hardy) play gangster twins in Legend early and for free
While you’d be hard-pressed to find someone complaining about too much Tom Hardy, writer-director Brian Helgeland will…
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Indie rock star Stuart Murdoch channels his inner Richard Lester in God Help The Girl
God Help The Girl finds Belle And Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch expanding his eponymous song suite—previously…