But now it’s, okay, what does she do next? This isn’t a story about Laura redeeming herself. I don’t know that if I was in your shoes I would have made better choices than you did.” What’s glorious is you realize, no, her story hasn’t stopped. It’s that lovely thing of, to know all is to forgive all. Seeing their life and what happens when he’s in prison. The joy of this episode is seeing who she is and what she does before she meets Shadow. If put to the test, we would probably say maybe he’s better off without her. We love Shadow, and we know that she died with his best friend’s dick in her mouth. I quite like Laura, but was there every any discussion about losing audience sympathy for her the way she’s portrayed here?įrom my point of view, what we do immediately is gain audience sympathy for Laura because, until this point, she’s his cheating wife.
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Laura’s apathy and depressive attitude in this episode make her rather an unorthodox figure in a TV landscape that can be preoccupied with only likable women. Martin, and gives a hint of what’s to come in Season 2. Then enjoy as Gaiman waxes poetic on the nature of adaptation, defends George R.R. on Starz, or currently available on demand and the network’s streaming app. Before you dive in here, be sure to watch Season 1, Episode 4 of American Gods, titled “Git Gone”-airing at 9pm E.T. Still he agrees that the show finally feels liberated in this lengthy exploration of a woman who got something of short shrift in the novel. Gaiman says a lot of what we learn about this backstory episode focused on Laura is “implicit” in his text. Gaiman fanatics may be shocked to realize it contains almost nothing from the source novel. He told Vanity Fair via phone call that this episode, centered on Shadow’s wife Laura Moon ( Emily Browning), is his very favorite. But while the first three episodes have been filled with peaks and valleys, scenes translated word-for-word from the page and flights of show-invented fantasy, in Episode 4, the whole grand experiment comes together.
In Season 1 of American Gods, Fuller, Green, Gaiman, and company are still trying to figure out exactly what American Gods the TV show looks like. When it was first announced that Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller had been tapped to finally bring Neil Gaiman’s beloved-and, by the author’s own admission, largely unadaptable-novel American Gods to television, fans wondered: would this be another Hannibal? A fiercely adored, niche show that found its greatest inspiration in wildly diverging from the Thomas Harris novels? Or would Fuller and his partner, Michael Green, turn in a slavish adaptation that could please Gaiman fans, but no one else?