With the advent of internet we are witnessing some kind of a golden age of TV series and American Gods is a most unconventional example of this.
Myths and superstitions embroidered in American culture melt here in the most imaginative and surrealist of manners.
The show is visually astonishing. The storyline vague. The characters shallow. But, then, I am guessing that that is precisely how it is supposed to be for its structure borrows from the Greek and other mythologies (think, for instance of the Mabinogion) where Gods, heroes and simple mortals get entangled in plots that, unbound to any notion of logic or realism, may well appear childish absurd to a modern audience.
I, for one, am savouring it (in all its imperfection).
Myths and superstitions embroidered in American culture melt here in the most imaginative and surrealist of manners.
The show is visually astonishing. The storyline vague. The characters shallow. But, then, I am guessing that that is precisely how it is supposed to be for its structure borrows from the Greek and other mythologies (think, for instance of the Mabinogion) where Gods, heroes and simple mortals get entangled in plots that, unbound to any notion of logic or realism, may well appear childish absurd to a modern audience.
I, for one, am savouring it (in all its imperfection).