Back in November, American Gods showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green announced that they’d be leaving the critically well-regarded Starz series after the end of its first season. At the time—and in subsequent discussions—everyone involved seems to have done their best to paint the split as amicable, with Starz…

Bryan Fuller and Michael Green pulled off something of a miracle earlier this year, successfully adapting Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, the epic novel that’s long been deemed one the most unwieldy and un-filmable projects. Their well-received fantasy drama was renewed by Starz just weeks after the series premiere, and…

“This is all too big. Too much going on at once.” That’s how Mr. Nancy starts “Come To Jesus,” the season finale of American Gods. He looks up from his sewing machine and announces, “We should start with a story.”

In its third episode, American Gods already subverts expectations as nimbly as anything on television. That’s doubly surprising in a series based (reasonably faithfully, so far) on a well-known, well-loved novel, but it’s simple to explain. The unexpectedness of “Head Full Of Snow” resides not only in its action, but…

The new Starz series American Gods is based on the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name, with many characters from the book appearing in the show. The character Vulcan, however, was created by Gaiman specifically for the series. In the clip above, showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green explain what they and Gaiman…

“Let me tell you a story: Once upon a time, a man got fucked. Now, how is that for a story? Because that’s the story of black people in America.” This is the introductory speech of Anansi (Orlando Jones), or Mr. Nancy, as he’ll come to be known. It’s also how American Gods turns the lynching imagery of its premiere…

In its premiere episode, American Gods is as sweeping as the Neil Gaiman novel from which the series is adapted and as richly imaginative as co-creator Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal, but still manages to be thrillingly original. Diving into the action with inventive abandon, a gory prelude shows a ship of Vikings stranded…

The All-Father uses emoji. “This is the first time I’m saying this in an interview,” American Gods co-showrunner Michael Green divulges when talking with The A.V. Club last week. “Ian McShane: He makes fun of Instagram, Twitter. ‘Oh, that social thing I leave that to you’—he will text with emojis and GIFs. It means…

In the kind of coincidence that would make Mr. Wednesday himself chuckle, there are two major 2017 releases rooted in Nordic mythology that are being touted with a road-trip angle. Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has promised that in November, the Odinson and his “work friend” the Incredible Hulk, will trek…

Starz’s American Gods series, which is based on the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and counts Bryan Fuller as one of its showrunners, is about a coming war between old gods that represent traditional belief systems and new gods based on modern obsessions like technology and celebrity. Given that premise, it…

FX’s adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last Man is actually moving forward, which is a development that’s even more unexpected than a mysterious plague wiping out every living thing on Earth with a Y chromosome (that’s what the comic is about). FX announced its Y: The Last Man show over a year ago…

Many new series are being previewed here at TCA, but among the most anticipated (and, frankly, confusing for those unfamiliar with the source material) is American Gods, the upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Hugo-award-winning novel, which is coming to Starz in 2017. American Gods just had a hugely successful panel…

Fans of Marvel’s most famous Canadian superhero (sorry, Alpha Flight) had their imaginations fueled last year, when we announced that David James Kelly had been hired to write the third (and presumably Hugh Jackman’s final) Wolverine movie. Now we’re all a year older, and Marvel has decided that actually, no, Kelly…