There’s more than enough room for human-dog partnerships across Jim Henson’s oeuvre, but it’s true. For a while there I was convinced the narrators of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Giants were Fraggle Rock’s Doc and Sprocket. Doc wore glasses and ...

A group of people are invited to a deserted island. They’ve never met the owner. One by one, each person turns up dead. Il Demone di Laplace (The Laplace’s Demon, Giordano Giulivi, 2017) isn’t a remake of Agatha Christie’s And ...

Marcus King is not a terrorist. Anyone who feels they should begin with that assurance probably shouldn’t be taken at their word, but that’s where writer, Alex De Campi, delivers her first blow in Bankshot #1. Right before professing he’s ...

The idea of being watched has always been horrifying but what if you were being watched… by no one? That sentence might sound like it’s trying too hard, but writer, Cullen Bunn, and artist, Jack T. Cole, have created a ...

When Laura (Emily Browning) asked Salim (Omid Abtahi) whether he ‘loved God’ or was ‘in love with God,’ I wasn’t sure if I understood the question. This episode, when Wednesday (Ian McShane) asked Shadow (Ricky Whittle) if he had faith, ...

I haven’t been watching the previews for American Gods so don’t know whether Emily Browning’s double casting was kept a secret. In an episode where Shadow (Ricky Whittle) and Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) are sidelined, keeping the reason why buried ...

“A Murder of Gods” answers the question as to how American Gods showrunners, Michael Green and Bryan Fuller, plan to incorporate a new god into Neil Gaiman’s story: kill him off after one episode. Vulcan (Corbin Bernsen) is the Roman ...

When you have a show like American Gods, that’s willing to experiment visually, the ‘Somewhere in America’ story being animated for a change this week doesn’t register (animation immediately sets the first humans apart as our ancestors, instead of as ...

Last week on American Gods, Shadow (Ricky Whittle) referred to the difference between believing in ghosts and believing in gods. He also said he “…believe[d] the shit out of love” so, when his love, Laura (Emily Browning), is a ghost or “something ...

“Even the smart ones [people] have some kind of delusion they believe in, whether it’s gods or ghosts,” Shadow tells Wednesday. Since Shadow hasn’t decided on a god to believe in, that leaves ghosts and, sure enough, in the final ...