My critique is not one calling for book purity. It's a critique of how slightly updating the time period (which would normally be fine), might be a bigger problem than the writers imagined.

The problem is that Shadow was a quiet, stern(ish) sort of fellow in the book. He got confused by the circumstances. You felt his suspicion and bewilderment. He was a cipher of sorts, and his personality worked towards that. This approach doesn't work in television format, so the actor has to add something to the…

This has been such a disappointing series so far. Episode 3 is by far the best episode early on, but the show doesn't seem to understand what makes the source material good. American Gods was aimed to be an American Novel of sorts. You get snippets of it here and there in the show, but the source material was bathed…

It was written in 2016 vernacular and view, but spoken by a centuries old God speaking to people in the time of maritime slave trade. It was jarringly anachronistic.

Monica makes a plan to trap Chen by misleading him with a false phone call. This plan starts to work, but then Bachman screws it up. Chen quickly realizes he's been played and turns it back on Monica. Now Monica must take the situation and make it work.