'Do you know who he is? Who he really is?' Sweeney asks. Mad's a leprechaun, and speaks in riddles more baffling than Wednesday's. I don't like you'-but Wednesday is unperturbed.Įnter Mad Sweeney, to do a little coaxing on Wednesday's behalf. Shadow tells him everything we're already thinking-'You're a little creepy, and you're forward, and familiar, and I don't like it. Shadow, lover of coin tricks, rigs a toss with a double-headed coin-'I'm not gonna work for anyone who's got worse luck than me'-and Wednesday wins, of course.

Now Shadow is pissed, but Wednesday is still pushing the job. Wednesday procures Laura's obituary, which reveals Shadow's friend Robbie also died in the car accident. Just in case you needed confirmation that Wednesday is more than human, he manages to find Shadow-who is now driving to Laura's funeral after his flight made an emergency landing-at a dive bar in the middle of nowhere. Read 's interview with Yetide Badaki, who plays Bilquis, here. I don't believe in anything I can't see, but I feel like there's a fucking axe hanging over my head.' This urgent foreshadowing is even more ominous when Shadow looks across the yard and sees another prisoner clutching a noose. 'I believe in plenty when there's reason and evidence to believe. He presents himself as a pretty down-to-earth guy: 'I'm not superstitious,' he tells his buddy, Low Key Lyesmith. We meet our hero, Shadow Moon, lifting weights in a jail yard.

More on him to come.Ģ) Shadow's on the verge of release from prison, but he has a bad feeling about it. Side note: the narrator of this sequence is none other than Mr. As the narrator tells us, a descendant of these first explorers, Leif Erikson, will find Odin waiting for him when he 'discovers' America a century later. Thus, these men are responsible for bringing Odin to the new world. The journeymen call on their god, the All-Father (you may know him as Odin) to get them home they sacrifice themselves in battle against each other-as a 'war god,' Odin really likes blood and death-to implore him to send wind for their sails. #AmericanGods /MfmO3zR3Os- American Gods US May 1, 2017

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