VikenMekhtarian

When you've seen movies as much as I have you develop a sixth sense, this one stinks to high heaven. Heavy dose of melodrama, all made possible by some bad guy pointing a gun at a good guy, or good guys family. It's the trope of bad writers to get characters to do non characteristic things because someone with a gun threatens them. So the film starts with a weak premise and builds on that. it's not worth seeing.... and yet there will be people who still like it. Go figure!

Though I love the show in general, this last few episodes have been really grinding and grinding my gears. The plot has slowed down a lot and there are some throwaway plot twists that does not move the story forward and some scenes that are way longer than they need to be. This is the point when the writers start writing for their paychecks. Not as bad as some other shows mind you, but slow none the less. While the actors make up for lack of good dialogue by screaming out their lines very loud. Sounds like they all went to the drama school that Catherine O'Hara's character ran at the end of Waiting for Guffman. If you have made it this far, stick with it, it's worth it.

In movie productions, there is a First Unit, which comprises of the Director who shoots all the scenes featuring the lead actors and the Second Unit shoots the scenes that the stars are not in and it shot by a different director. It feels like this whole season was written by lesser writers while the ones who wrote the first season relax or recover. This episode more than any of the second season of American Gods can be skipped and you won't loose anything in the story line. This episode does not advance the plot in any significant way plus, what's worse is that it has Nazis! The whole second season of AG feels like one drawn out Second Act of a play, heavy on character development but low on plot. Except in this case, it feels like we are watching a different show, one without the bite and tang of the first season. We suffer the second act as we wait for the final act where the pace picks up and all the plot lines come together. However, if you consider that this is the second to last episode of season 2 and it's a snoozer. then we fear that American Gods may not have a third season at all. I probably won't watch it, like I didn't watch the last season of Game of Thrones. The producers of these second rate episodes need to learn their lesson. Either go the British way and make fewer episodes or risk bad reviews on IMDB! lol