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Perhaps sensing this, season one showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green took the Shadow-centric story of the Neil Gaiman novel and smartly shifted the focus to Shadow's compatriots (Schreiber and Browning have great onscreen chemistry), other gods (Orlando Jones swanning around as spider-trickster-dandy-god Mr. That Shadow is consistently, and by far, the least interesting thing in any given episode of American Gods is not the actor's fault he's written to be the audience surrogate, the grounded, dull-as-dishwater hub around which much more colorful and fascinating characters, events and images revolve. Viewers hoping this change to the show's status quo would effect a palpable change in Shadow's character will not be pleased to hear that while season two sees Shadow fully clued in, he's still going around in a fog of angry bewilderment - at least in the first two episodes made available to press. And all the while, Shadow allowed himself to be led along on an extended, discursive road trip, only occasionally glimpsing the bleeding edges of true reality - namely, the fomenting cosmic battle - shuddering just below the surface. World (Crispin Glover) and the callow Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) observed and plotted. The old gods, led by Odin, marshaled their forces, while the gods born on American soil like the mysterious Mr. Over the course of those first eight episodes, Shadow found himself drawn into a conflict between the gods of the Old World and the New. pretty much the central, overriding concept around which the first season of American Gods revolved. And that 'never tells me anything' bit is.

Wednesday, aka Odin the All-Father, played with a knowing smirk and a kind of sidelong, Ian McShane-y brio. (Not important to whom, for now - that'd be a spoiler.) in the second episode of American Gods' second season. That's something the burly, perpetually befuddled, improbably named bodyguard Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) says to. In the American Gods season 2 opener, Shadow (Ricky Whittle) approaches The Carousel, which will.

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