American Gods has has received the usually dreaded ‘episode order cut’, however, the Starz drama is not in any medium-term danger having received an early Season 2 renewal.
TVLine reports on the shortened first season:
Originally, Bryan Fuller and Michael Green‘s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel — which follows a man named Shadow Moon (played by The 100‘s Ricky Whittle) as he becomes embroiled in a war between new and old gods — was supposed to unfold over 10 episodes. But issues arose while creating the drama’s third and fourth installments.
“When we shot it, we didn’t like what we saw,” Fuller tells TVLine. “There were issues with the sets. There were some things that happened too early in Shadow’s journey that changed the perspective of the story.” So he and Green decided to eliminate what they didn’t like, instead cutting two episodes in half and stitching them together to make what would eventually become Episode 3.
“[Starz] sat us down, and they said, ‘That went better than we could have hoped. What can we do to make sure we deliver a show as good as that trailer?’” Green recalls. “They said, ‘We will put on the table something that you can take or leave’ — because they’d always cautioned us about our own appetites — ‘If you want to do less show and focus on making it better, we’re open to that. If that means fewer episodes, consider it.’”
American Gods Season 2 is slated to release in 2018. The series is currently chasing a third season. Stay tuned…
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