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Browning is nonchalant and flippant, suggesting that Laura believes her problems can just go away if she acts like they don’t matter. There’s a huge contrast between Emily Browning and Ricky Whittle’s performances. Laura views this opportunity as a second chance for her relationship with Shadow, and she wants to let go of the past while the past is all Shadow can think about, specifically his wife’s affair with his best friend. Having Laura Moon as a principle character is the smartest change this series has made to the source material, and her interactions with Shadow at the top of “Lemon Scented You” have much more definition because there was an entire episode exploring her life and her perspective. In general, American Gods has done a good job of including moments of levity in the midst of all the darkness, which makes the epic conflict more inviting and amusing. There’s a lot of dark comedy in this episode, most of it involving Laura Moon, and maintaining a sense of humor is important when there’s a war between gods brewing. “Git Gone” felt like the start of a different show, and Graziano successfully integrates that voice into the story of Shadow, Wednesday, and the New Gods. This is the first episode not written by showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, and David Graziano has the challenging task of bringing all the show’s separate threads together into one cohesive episode. World (Crispin Glover), who reveals himself to Shadow and Wednesday in hopes of swaying them to his side.

Technical Boy and Media are back this week, joined by their impish leader Mr. The writers know that they need to hook viewers with a strong conflict and compelling characters, so they’ve introduced the New Gods earlier and made them more aggressive antagonists.

Taking place over the course of a single eventful night (not counting the prehistoric prelude), the script continues to drift further from Neil Gaiman’s book, but the changes make for a more dynamic TV show.

After taking a detour to explore Laura Moon’s backstory, American Gods charges into the main plot at full force with “Lemon Scented You,” an episode that significantly ups the tension between the Old and New Gods.

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