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adaptations, allies, enemies, fantasy, Gods, power, recuiting, social commentary
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Hello everyone! Welcome to the Book Nook. Today we are going to be doing a review on Season 2 of American Gods. I did a review on Season 1 a few weeks ago and you can read my review here. Season 1 was great and I enjoyed it a lot. Season 2…eh; not so much. Before we get started, I encourage you all to comment down below and tell me your thoughts. Also, make sure you are following the Book Nook on WordPress, Instagram and YouTube; that way you don’t miss any of my reviews in the future. So, without further ado, lets get into it.
Just a little bit of background info if you don’t already know; American Gods is about this man named Shadow who gets out of prison only to find that his wife and best friend have died. With nothing holding him down he starts to work for a Mr. Wednesday and ends up getting caught up in a war between the new gods and the gods of old.
Season 2 is still entertaining and hilarious. A few characters from Season 1 get more screen time this time around. Orlando Jones who plays Anansi is hilarious! Like, this man is so petty and ridiculous and he’s always starting something with Shadow just to get a reaction out of him and I love it. Mousa Hussein Kraish and Omid Abtahi who play the Jihn and Salim respectively also got more screen time and I liked that for them. They did change the actress that played Media. Gillian Anderson was in S1 but now we have Kahyun Kim who plays New Media in S2. Dean Wintes also shows up in the beginning and I was really excited to see him. He played Mr. Town (who made several appearances in the book) but again he was only in that one episode which was disappointing. Now…I wouldn’t say I spoiled S3 for myself but…I was looking up Kraish because I thought he was kind of cute and I saw that he wouldn’t be in S3 or at least he wouldn’t be in the next season as much because he was leaving the show. I guess the next season started going in a different direction and lot of actors left. With that being said, I am nervous about what S3 will bring to the table.
I anticipated S2 following the second half of the book but that wasn’t the case. In the second half of the book Shadow is hiding out in a small town while Wednesday is taking care of business. That’s not 100% how it happened. It wasn’t even…70% how it happened to be honest. I did also notice there was more social commentary in this season; especially concerning race. The show doesn’t bombard us with it but it was something that I noticed.
Overall, S2 was just okay. I do like that they gave Mad Sweeney a background story. I’m still not keen about Emily Browning as Laura. The season did give us a subplot following Laura and Mad Sweeney and their relationship and I hope S3 doesn’t make anything more out of it because…I ain’t here for it. S1 was better that S2 in my opinion and I hope S3 is better but after knowing that a couple of characters won’t be making an appearance, I’m pretty skeptical. But we’ll see.
Accuracy wise: 1/5
Overall: 3/5
Until next time!