I've watched the first 5 episodes of American Gods and I am completely turned off by it. I've seen the raving reviews and my mom tells me the book is really good. I like the idea behind the setting (gods being legitimate entities that are powered by faith).
This show seems to exemplify "Style over substance" almost perfectly. The camera constantly shifts and focuses on random things. There's a lot of weird imagery that feels like the director is screaming: "Check out my awesome metaphor! Of course you don't get it. You aren't sophisticated enough." Then proceeds to vigorously touch himself.
This is further exacerbated by the plot moving slower than a sloth on sleeping pills. I understand the need for subtlety and drawing out the intrigue, but it has a similar issue to the second and third seasons of the Walking Dead; nothing happens.
The last big problem I have can be summed up with one spam message: DICKS EVERYWHERE!! One episode literally dedicates 10 minutes of its time to two gay Muslims fucking. I first thought: "Oh, an entity from Islamic mythology. This could prove interesting and he's got his dick out." Massive chunks of episodes are dedicated to sex scenes that add nothing. Game of Thrones had a similar issue, but those scenes tended to be short, skip able and there were actually interesting plot lines that made it easy to overlook the obvious pandering.
TLDR; I really dislike this show already and don't get the praise (unless critics are huffing their own flatulence)
This show seems to exemplify "Style over substance" almost perfectly. The camera constantly shifts and focuses on random things. There's a lot of weird imagery that feels like the director is screaming: "Check out my awesome metaphor! Of course you don't get it. You aren't sophisticated enough." Then proceeds to vigorously touch himself.
This is further exacerbated by the plot moving slower than a sloth on sleeping pills. I understand the need for subtlety and drawing out the intrigue, but it has a similar issue to the second and third seasons of the Walking Dead; nothing happens.
The last big problem I have can be summed up with one spam message: DICKS EVERYWHERE!! One episode literally dedicates 10 minutes of its time to two gay Muslims fucking. I first thought: "Oh, an entity from Islamic mythology. This could prove interesting and he's got his dick out." Massive chunks of episodes are dedicated to sex scenes that add nothing. Game of Thrones had a similar issue, but those scenes tended to be short, skip able and there were actually interesting plot lines that made it easy to overlook the obvious pandering.
TLDR; I really dislike this show already and don't get the praise (unless critics are huffing their own flatulence)