Prepare to
worship the
deities of
'American Gods'
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Belief is power in the world of
American Gods. In Neil Gaiman's beloved **vel — and the lavish new Starz adaptation from Bryan Fuller and Michael Green — gods exist because people believe in them, and as soon as we stop believing... well, you remember what
Peter Pan told us about fairies.
Unfortunately for the Old Gods — mythological
deities like Odin and Anubis, who were worshiped in earlier periods of civilization — humans typically have a short attention span, and we're increasingly turning away from the holy figures of our pasts in favor of smartphones and binge-watching. Tech**logy has become our new god, and that tension between the old and the new drives a lot of the drama in
American Gods, as these mythic figures battle for relevance and the attention of humanity.
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Orlando Jones,
Kristin Che**weth,
Gillian Anderson,
Ian Mcshane, and
American Gods
