Sweeney Mortuary

This week Shadow deals with the repercussions of what he did, and New Media makes her move. It’s finale time! Let’s recap, God Squad!Warning: It’s about to get spoiler-y!It’s a dark night on a farm and a family is gathered around the radio for the evening broadcast. There are glimpses of certain details like the newspaper Pa is reading: Munich Agreement Brings Peace, Ma stitching, the radio announcing a meteorite that’s fallen in New Jersey, and a kid playing Cat’s Cradle. The family is listening more closely now, frightened. The news increases with terror about aliens invading, and if you don’t recognize the screening of War of the Worlds on the radio, then, well, this is your first experience. It’s well-known that when this was broadcasted many families were terrified and leaving their homes in fear of the invasion actually happening.Mr. World gives a monologue on fear and how people hadn’t ever conceived aliens and what they’d looked like before this broadcast. He then settles in a director’s chair, mentioning horror and sitting in a theater for the sheer enjoyment of fear, as an alien invasion scene is filmed.Flash to a little boy watching an alien movie. He hears his dog at night and goes to check on him, but the dog runs off into the dark. The boy chases him and is suddenly washed in a beam of light and abducted. What’s so interesting about this is that it’s very similar to how Shadow had been abducted at the end of the first episode of this season, “House on the Rock”.World ends his monologue on fear with, “The more you believe, the more you believe.”American Gods Starz Youtube" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/theseriesregulars.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AG-.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/theseriesregulars.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AG-.jpg?fit=940%2C529&ssl=1" class="wp-image-10795 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/theseriesregulars.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AG-.jpg?resize=940%2C529&ssl=1" alt="American Gods " width="940" height="529" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/theseriesregulars.com/wp-content/...

The second season of American Gods concludes the same way as the first with a character on a bus bringing us to a pivotal location in Neil Gaiman’s novel. American Gods season 2 added more color to the stories of the Jinn and Salim, Laura and Mad Sweeney, Ibis and Jacquel, Bilquis and Mama-Ji.We met Sam Black Crow, got to ride the carousel, and saw what became of Thor Odinson. While at times the season felt a bit disjointed and all over the place, it managed to pull off one of the more impressive diversions from the novel we, as writers and fans, never saw coming — we lost Shadow Moon.“Moon Shadow,” even in title form, gives us that twisted look at the character. In our final review of the season, our writers look at what the rise of the New Gods says about societies connection to mass hysteria today, what a hub of action Cairo became, and what is in store for Mike Ainsel and the series in season 3.‘American Gods’ season 2, episode 8 in conversationNatalie: It’s the final installment of this season of American Gods, which feels like it has arrived rather quickly. From the House on the Rock to Cairo and beyond.I must say that this has kept us on the basic roadmap the book lays out in terms of player movement, but it detoured into back alleys that I never would have imagined. But this portion of Shadow’s journey, which was in the novel a very sleepy sort of time, in the funeral home, has become one of the most action filled. We need to talk about how that landed, but first – Mr. World and his Godzilla’ing through his tiny town.This opening monologue that addressed the audience was interspersed with scenes set the night that War of the Worlds was broadcast on radio, as an example of the power he wants to wield.How did this feel for you?Brittany: If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times — Crispin Glover in this role creeps me out. It made perfect sense that he would use the fear of the masses — manipulating them into believing these imaged beings could be real simply because they think of it. What a powerful weapon to wield. How humble his beginnings we...