Already renewed for Season 2, American Gods‘ quest for a coveted third season will see the show take an “angrier” path, EPs Bryan Fuller and Michael Green explain in a new Deadline interview:
DEADLINE: Where does the end of this season leave us, going into Season 2 and going into the rest of Neil’s book?
GREEN: Precariously. We always knew we wanted to end the season with our weight tilted towards House on the Rock. We talked a lot, early on about wanting to get there and even starting that story, then advancing the narrative that far. But we enjoyed our time with our characters so much and were doing so many things that took so much time and resources that we realized that we had a very interesting and satisfying ending with Wednesday taking his first real aggressive stance against the new gods. With him saying, ‘You were very, very unwise to count me out and to speak in those tones to me.’ So Wednesday has the upper hand in two ways, he is taking a shot across the bow that’s going to hurt the new gods and he has a believer in Shadow Moon. Those are two things that are not without significance.
DEADLINE: With where we are in terms of Neil’s book, will that play a big part in the consequences of Season 2?
FULLER: I think the bigger interpersonal dramas that are waiting for us in Season two that excites us greatly is the notion of Laura Moon versus Mr. Wednesday. We see, by the end of the season, that Laura understands that Wednesday had her assassinated, specifically, to put Shadow in this situation. We always talked about Laura becoming that metaphor for the last Catholic who can, you know, shake her fist at the sky, and say, “Fuck you, God.” But now she actually gets to say it to a real god and she’s a god that she can get her hands on so what is she going to do next?
GREEN: [..] we can’t help but acknowledge that the world we’re going to be writing in is so much darker now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Season 2 got a lot angrier.
American Gods Season 2 premieres in 2018 on Starz.
Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the renew/cancel status of American Gods Season 3…
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