![]() ![]() The episode opens to vikings stranded long ago in the New World, with no wind to fill their sales. Outside this main story we have a couple brief vignettes to help deepen the world. It's incredibly violent and bloody, and leaves Shadow understandably shaken. In any case, Technical Boy ambushes Shadow and tries to intimidate him in the back of a digital limo, but when Shadow won't go along he has his faceless goons beat lynch him, very nearly killing our hero before the story begins. Instead someone or some thing saves our hero, and makes a bloody mess of Technical Boy's goons in the process. Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) is one of the New Gods-Money and Media and Technology are the "new" American gods, rather than old gods like Thor and Zeus. Then again, Laura calls him "Puppy" which is perhaps the most galling and irritating term of endearment known to man.Īfter the funeral, Shadow meets an even more hostile adversary than Sweeney. He handles the news with stoicism, rebuking the wife of his dead friend who wants to revenge sex. Grief and anger make strong emotional cocktails, but Shadow isn't a particularly emotional guy. To learn of her infidelity would be that much harder, would make grieving that much more impossible. It would be a hard enough blow to learn of your wife's death, who you'd just spoken to on the phone, after not seeing her for five years. Shadow doesn't learn this right away, but when he does it stings. Then there's the wife, Laura (Emily Browning) who died performing a sexual act on Shadow's best friend while driving. I like him here as Shadow, a character I could never really relate to much in the book. You may recognize Whittle from The 100, where he plays a Wildling. We have Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) a newly minted ex-con who discovers, just as he's about to be released from prison, that his wife has died. The youngest sister stayed in her room, ostensibly sleeping.The series premiere introduces us to many, though not all, of the moving pieces. Man, Cloris Leachman just gets better and better, doesn’t she? The far more meek, slightly younger Utrennyaya quietly accepted a gift of romance novels from Wednesday (and HA! to the moment she realizes Shadow looks like he just stepped off one of those covers). Vechernyaya was very old, didn’t seem to want visitors and drank vodka straight from the bottle like a boss. ![]() * In Chicago, Wednesday and Shadow paid a visit to the dingy apartment belonging to the Zorya sisters: Zorya Vechernyaya, Zorya Utrennyaya and Zorya Polunochnaya. Before she ended her pitch, Media warned Shadow that guys in his position “end up a suicide, every time.” She said that she thrives on “time and attention, better than lambs’ blood” and offered him a job that he quickly refused. Book readers surely recognized this as the first incarnation of the New God Media (played by a sublime Gillian Anderson). ![]() * While Shadow was doing some of Wednesday’s shopping at a big-box store, a black-and-white version of Lucille Ball started talking to him from the television displays - even when he unplugged them. Once that painful process was done - he found a photo of Robbie’s junk on Laura’s phone, ugh - he and Wednesday got back on the road. Wednesday in tow, returned to clean out his and Laura’s home in Eagle Point, Ind. While sleeping one night, he dreamt of Laura when he woke, he finally started to actively grieve her death. * Shadow survived his fight with Technical Boy’s faceless goons, but he was in pretty rough shape - and he still doesn’t know who cut down his noose and saved him from certain death. “Once they’re angry, now we can get something done,” Jones said. It requires to connect with them and pull them out of that despair, and to ignite them in a fire.”Īfter all, “In order to worship Anansi,” Jones added with a grin, “you’ve got to let the motherf–ker burn.” (Which happened literally when the slaves realized what was happening to them and revolted.) “I’m talking to 50 slaves who are frightened out of their minds, who have no understanding where they’re getting ready to go and who are looking for some sort of glimmer of hope in a really dark place. “As much as the people at home resonate with you, that’s not who I’m talking to,” he said. (Though I hear it did earn him a standing ovation from the other actors on set.) Nancy’s speech has particular relevance in our current social and political climate, he’s quick to point out that the scene is about something different. “It was very clear and beautifully put.”Īnd though he acknowledges that Mr. “There was no need to shift the verbiage in that one,” Jones said. ![]()
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