“Sometimes I remember things one way, sometimes I remember them another.”

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the most fun American Gods has had all season long. “Donar The Great” isn’t quite as, well, great as its burlesque strongman, but it’s nice to see American Gods return to its strengths. Split between the Regius Theater in pre-WWII Chicago and a mall somewhere in America (as the show’s…

“Everything that you said about things getting better was a lie!”

“How much longer can we afford to wait?”

Like the believers who brought their gods to America, or like the down-at-heel gods themselves, I can’t seem to stop offering up scraps of faith to American Gods. I want it to be good. I want it to reach the heights and breadths of season one. I want it to evoke the ineffable,…

“How the fuck is that an upgrade?”

“You can’t just give up because the fuckin’ road ends.”

“I know where I’m going!” That plaintive whine, uttered by Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) as he charges over a golf course (and golfer) in a stretch limo, is not a reassuring opening for a beleaguered show.

“Now Am Found” delivers everything I expected from a True Detective finale: two hardbitten men having a talking like this contest, a perversely cheerful dungeon for a kidnapped child, and a last-minute revelation in the form of that conspicuous landscaper and his scampering daughter.

“The Final Country” feels like it’s breaking new ground showing teenage Becca Hays (Deborah Ayorinde) as Wayne drives her to college, his truck loaded down with furniture and boxes. The absence of adult Becca looms over the third season, starting well before Wayne lost her at Walmart. It’s one more thread tying Wayne…

“It’s terrible what this work makes you ponder, isn’t it?”

At a 1990 reading from Life And Death And The Harvest Moon, Amelia Hays concludes, “A lost child is a story that’s never allowed to end,” and her rapt audience nods along. New evidence (and fresh publicity) in the Purcell case means renewed interest in her…

“You shouldn’t have seen that. Try and forget it.” That’s what Roland West says after Tom Purcell walks in on photos of his dead wife and possible daughter.

For inveterate puzzlers, “If You Have Ghosts” provides some choice dates and details to enter into your spreadsheets or tack up on your bulletin board. Lucy…

In 2015, former detective Wayne Hays stands in his former police station, waiting for his son. He uses every tool in his possession to get what he wants from Henry, who is a detective just like Dad. He first tries charm (already demonstrated on the desk sergeant), asking his son, once so hungry for dad’s…

“Are you awakening to what you withheld?”

“It’s too dark, man!” “I don’t care.”

“Where are you now?”

“I am home,” Steven types onto a blank screen in the opening of “Silence Lay Steadily,” and pauses. “‘I am home,’ I thought, and stopped in wonder at the thought.”

“Are you awake now?”

Several episodes ago, I said that Hill House had done its worst to one of the Crains. And that was true then. But “Screaming Meemies,” which takes place long ago in the twisted timeline of The Haunting Of Hill House, does something so much worse.

It’s a sneaky piece of false logic that Hill House,…