Crispin Glover, who stars as Mr. World in American Gods, is a rare talent who defies genres. He was our beloved meek George McFly from the iconic Back to the Future series, and has now come full-circle as a terrifying soft-spoken ‘new god’ villain in Neil Gaiman and Starz’ series. Born in New York in 1964, Crispin
In last night’s fourth episode of American Gods we got the backstory of how Shadow Moon and Laura Moon first met. The story starts with Laura — played by Emily Browning — working as croupier at a casino. She is bored and sick of her job. That is, until Shadow walks up to her Black Jack
This week’s American Gods focuses on the backstory of Shadow’s dead wife Laura Moon, played by Emily Browning. Laura died in a car accident while cheating on Shadow with his best friend shortly before he was released from prison. Browning has been a screen favorite so far in the Starz series with her captivating screen
This week American Gods opens with a scene in which we see a woman preparing a meal. She reaches up to the top shelf standing on a stool, which is not safe. Her cat is protesting as if it can see what is about to happen. The woman seems to get what she needs from
We first met Mad Sweeney when he challenged Shadow Moon to a bar fight in episode one, but who is he? Leprechauns are well known in Irish mythology for being mischievously cunning short people that are obsessed with their pots of gold. As Shadow Moon points out in the first episode of ‘American Gods’ Sweeney looks a
American Gods on Starz features Mousa Kraish as The Jinn. But what is a jinn, also spelled djinn — and known in the west as a genie? The jinn come from Arabian and Islamic mythology and are supernatural creatures said to have been created by God from a smokeless “scorching fire” — hence Kraish’s eyes of flames
Episode 2 of American Gods begins with a brief flashback to a slave ship in the 1600s. A slave is praying to his god asking to be freed from his chains. He gets more than he bargained for when the god appears and creates an uprising in which all the slaves revolt and burn the Dutch
This first episode of American Gods introduces us to Shadow Moon, whose world has figuratively and literally been torn asunder. We start off with a story from the past, in which a crew of vikings land on the shores of the New World. But they find that they our not welcomed and pray to their
Crispin Glover, who stars as Mr. World in American Gods, is a rare bird — a meteoric talent many know little of, save for his infamous 1987 “in character” David Letterman appearance and roles in Back to the Future and River’s Edge. He is nonconformist, erudite and highly intelligent, and not content to let corporate entertainment
On Starz’ new series American Gods, the two most eye-popping and powerful female leads are both otherworldly and intensely human. Actress Yetide Badaki is cast as Bilquis, the ancient goddess of love who craves the meteoric highs of the worship she inspired in eras long ago. Now she struggles and needs to fulfill her desire