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American gods season 1 episode 1 recap11/9/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Wednesday and Cordelia attempt to find a way to free Demeter of her conservator’s grasp, despite her insistence that she enjoys life at the Retreat. While searching for herself, she ponders Sweeney’s whereabouts – until she’s transported to the present, thanks to a crushed gris gris bottle, smashed during the cleanup process, creating the perfect condition to mix with Sweeney’s blood and activate, restoring her humanity. As Laura looks over the newcomer’s guide yet again, she questions the mystery of death in conversation with a woman who has been waiting to move on since 1993. With more questions than answers, we return to purgatory when a young child discovers the remains of Mad Sweeney and Laura in the cemetery. A recorded message (one of seventeen from his daughter) gives them a clue, sending the duo on an unlikely mission to stake out the family’s security detail to uncover Bilquis’ location.Ī quick transition to Bilquis shows her locked inside a heavily armed room, belief that she is not alone the only thing keeping her sane as she struggles with her own identity after absorbing Sanders through her own means of worship. Insistent on joining Shadow, Technical Boy puts up a fight, absorbing the tech mogul’s cell phone in the process thanks to the glitch overtaking his system. Security guards stormed the building, and while Bilquis put up a fight, killing one man in the process, she was drugged and kidnapped, the apartment left in shambles, but William’s phone left behind. Not now, not ever.” – beating the man senseless to get information: William Sanders, founder of Levitech Computing Systems is the cause of her disappearance, as he reveals via glitching video feeds. Shadow gets his long-overdue revenge for Tech Boy’s lynching in season one – “Apology not accepted. He’s come to put a stop to the glitching, and a rage-fueled Shadow Moon is having none of it, believing he is the cause of the apartment’s destruction and gore. Technical Boy just happens to be an unlucky bystander, glitching due to Bilquis’ manipulation of his memory. The threat to Bilquis’ life was not Technical Boy, but the New Gods, who, we find out later on, struck a deal with the Queen of Sheba. This recap contains spoilers.īefore we can learn more of the Orisha, Shadow barges into Bilquis’ New York apartment, putting an end to last week’s cliffhanger. Need a quick catch up? Be sure to check out our recap of last week’s episode. Instead of appearances, give us backstory: show us where they came from, honor their history and their heritage while explaining how they came to America on the backs of Black victims. The Orisha are new territory, and in the same vein as American Gods, I’d love to see them explored in-depth, with episodes dedicated to their backstory in the same way we’ve seen Essie MacGowan and Mad Sweeney, Salim and the Jinn, especially as they serve as a reckoning for Bilquis, who has lost her way and can no longer seem to remember who she is or what she stands for. The story here is almost peaceful in tone, though it certainly makes us wonder how the Orisha will find their way into the narrative, especially given the focus on Nigeria in connection to Shadow Moon’s past. Here we see the Orisha break the chains of captives, provide food, water, and comfort – a reality, but one that could have used a longer introduction to show us who the Orisha are in the same treatment given to the gods before them. What made Orlando Jones’ performances so powerful was the anger, the blame – in Anansi, he held everyone accountable, made everyone reflect on bias, and racism, and history. There is a message of power, of community, of belief, of being one in the Orisha: Chango ( Wale), Oshun ( Herizen Guardiola), Yemoja ( Bridget Ogundipe), and Aye ( Karen Glave). Despite the imagery, despite Wale’s rendition of Wade in the Water, something feels missing. While a connection is no doubt made between the enslaved and prosperity in the sale of cotton, the message is not as powerful as it could be – as it has been, before now, in the story of Anansi. We see that, to an extent, in “The Unseen” – in the coming of the Orisha, the narration of Ibis.Ĭapitalism, materialism, and commerce open the American Gods dialogue, almost overshadowing the story’s meaning, its purpose: a “Coming to America” story inspired by the slave trade. With each passing week, a glimmer of hope sparks in the promise of a proper “Coming to America” story – one that goes back to the heart of belief, the primary focus of American Gods. ![]()
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