Moon is taken on a journey of deities and mystical creatures, who are living in uncanny harmony with our world.Įach episode includes a “Coming to America” sequence, which depicts how these divine beings interact with humans. (“You guys need to go back and figure out where holes are,” showrunner Bryan Fuller told the team.) And it presented the very kind of sex conservatives have worked so hard to stigmatise – a random hook-up between strangers – with an intimacy that’s never been shown before on mainstream TV.īased on the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name, American Gods follows the journey of an ex-con named Shadow Moon, enlisted as the bodyguard of an actual god – one of many brought into existence by the sheer belief of their worshippers. It involved CGI penises and a very evident climax, with sexual positions that had to be re-shot after complaints from the editing suite. But this week’s episode of American Gods seemed woven from the nightmares of the far right.