American Gods season 2 gets a release date

If you believe the trades, production on the second season of American Gods, Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel, has been troubled. With the showrunners being replaced not once but twice, and scripts rewritten over and over again, some have feared the worst, but today, Starz gets to laugh in their faces, as Entertainment Weekly reports that the premium cabler has finally set a premiere date: Sunday, March 10, 2019.

American Gods season 2 will consist of eight episodes, just like the first season, and will once again star Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon and Ian McShane as the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, his employer. The second season should pick up where season 1 left off: a war between the Old Gods and the New is brewing, with the human Shadow caught in the middle.

If you ask me, the first season of American Gods felt like a hollow adaptation of Gaiman’s book, although critics seemed to like it well enough, and it had some terrific performances. Still, something seemed to be missing from the story. Perhaps it was the fact that the show didn’t focus enough on the fun relationship between Shadow Moon and Mr. Wednesday.

Or Starz didn’t give the first showrunners, Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, the artistic license they needed to make something out of this material. Either way, I hope season 2 is an improvement.

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