![]() * At the end of the episode, Shadow attempted to break into his apartment after the key broke in the lock. But when he tried to take a bus to literally anywhere else, a sudden winter storm determined that he was, indeed, going to Lakeside. “I do better when I make my own decisions,” Shadow said. Before he and Cordelia took off, Wednesday reminded his son that there’s a paid apartment waiting for him in Lakeside. ![]() The mystical man (a god?) told him that he has a destiny to fulfill, “so don’t screw it up, or everything will come to an end.” When Wednesday and Shadow returned to the real world, they were met by Cordelia, a young woman Wednesday introduced as his fiancé. They entered a different dimension with a wicked cool, northern lights-type sky, but Shadow was the only one to have a meaningful connection with Whiskey Jack. * Early in the episode, Wednesday got Shadow to accompany him in the latest incarnation of Betty - a Winnebago - to see Whiskey Jack. He did not succeed, and Bilquis put some whammy on him, via touch, that messed him up good. Then she sent him to bring Bilquis to their side. She reminded Tech Boy that the New Gods are trying to build a pipeline into everyone’s brains, but they’re having trouble securing funding. When one of the millennials working for her didn’t take her anger seriously, she hefted a baseball bat and beat him into a paste while Technical Boy and the rest of her staff were spattered with his blood. World (played by Pose‘s Dominique Jackson), who was irked that Wednesday’s crowd-surfing - and not the New Gods’ message - went viral. Nearby, though, the vial of resurrection juice she procured from a local witchy woman broke and trickled closer to her pile of powder. * In New Orleans, Laura’s attempts to bring Mad Sweeney back to life backfired when she cut his coin from her - ending her un-life and turning her to dust. When he arrived at the stage, the lead singer Johan (played by goth rocker Marilyn Manson) unsheathed a sword and knelt before him, offering his fealty. * Wednesday crowd-dove at a concert that doubled as a tribute to the allfather himself. (I’ve seen the first few episodes so far, the trend continues.) Here are a few other events of note that took place in “A Winter’s Tale”: On the whole, the episode felt like the start of a season that’s been creatively zhushed. (And if you’ve read American Gods, please don’t spoil anything in the comments for those who haven’t.) In the book, for instance, Richie Hinzelmann is male. Also for the record: The exchange in question does not happen in Neil Gaiman’s novel on which the series is based - Shadow and Hinzelmann’s introduction is very straight-forward there - but it’s hardly the only departure from the source material in the season ahead. Hmmmm… right? For the record: Whittle, as always, was very charming while delivering his non-answer. And so, there are always moments that you need to pay attention to, character traits, things that they say, things that they do. Of course, now it all makes sense! They knew from the very beginning.” It’s those moments. Like, Neil Gaiman told you everything you ever need to know in Chapter 1, in Episode 1… But it’s so finely detailed and so meticulously laid that, it’s one of those moments, for instance, where, once you’ve seen this whole show play out, and you go back and re-watch it, that’s when you realize, “He just said that. And if you watch, we have told you everything that you ever need to know. We are gifted by an intelligent audience in the sci-fi and fantasy world that I love, that you don’t have to spoon-feed. TVLINE | Wait, start to say your evasive quote again, because I was laughing too hard and it’ll be tough to transcribe. TVLINE | When Shadow comes into Ann-Marie Hinzelmann’s shop, she refers to him by name without him telling her, right? So when TVLine recently chatted with Ricky Whittle, we asked him about it. It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but Shadow certainly noticed (though he said nothing). ![]()
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