As you see, the show's just a little complicated, as you would know if you've read the epic Neil Gaiman novel of the same name. Who, it must be admitted, is still trying to recover from his shock when the coin he drops into the grave of his wife Laura ( Emily Browning) accidentally turned her into one of the undead. Wednesday is equally creepy, dropping hints of his true nature to a confused Shadow.
Nancy ( Orlando Jones) has him turning into a spider to creep onto an African slave ship to predict several hundred years of future American racism to the terrified captives. The jaw-dropping scene that introduces Mr. The way we meet Technical Boy is a wow: a tiny robot leaps up to cling to Shadow's face, and Technical Boy takes shape pixel by pixel, Tintin quiff and all. This is strong stuff, but also arrestingly beautiful too.
Mad Men's Freddy Rumsen - naked!) into her vagina, you'll probably be done by the time Jesus Christ ( Jeremy Davies) shows up. Even if you can handle your kids seeing a Viking warrior get his head sliced in half in slow motion, or don't mind them watching as a totally nude sex goddess refreshes her life force by sucking the entire body of a man (played by Joel Murray a.k.a. This is an eyeful with an interesting premise and a whole glittering galaxy of terrific actors, but it's not for kids, not even close. Many characters curse routinely: "f-k," "f-king," "motherf-king," "goddamn," "a-hole," "s-t," "ass," "hell," "teat," "piss off," a man calls a particular group of woman "bitches." Characters drink, take Ativan to deal with emotional blows, and in one vivid scene a god smokes "synthetic toad skins" (a hallucinogen?) in a vape-like pipe. There are vulgar terms for different types of sex, and for body parts (male and female) characters urinate onscreen. Characters have sex nude the woman's breasts are visible for a long time as she thrusts and moans, exchanging very graphic talk with her partner other scenes include full-frontal male nudity and same-sex couplings. A woman kills a man during sex by devouring him with her private parts, and there's a lot of horror-movie type imagery: henchmen with featureless heads, a ground heaped with human bones. Men take part in a ritual in which one eye is stabbed out, men punch each other in the face until they're bloody pulps, complete with sickening crunching noises. There's frequent brutal violence, with onscreen deaths by decapitation, stabbings, slashings, bludgeonings, with spouting blood, lingering shots of gore, dead bodies, and disembodied limbs. Parents need to know that American Gods is a surreal drama (based on the book by Neil Gaiman) that truly earns its TV-MA rating.