Wow, fuck this shit. Another episode of dead wife filler

Wow, fuck this shit. Another episode of dead wife filler.

>filler
Yeah it wasn't in the manga.

What show?

Is this show any good? I hated the book.

What fucking show

I understand that the show is expanding her character, since in the book she usually just shows up out of nowhere, does shit, then leaves.

But this ep was actual filler. Nothing of significance happened, the character interactions were almost exactly the same as last episode, so no development there. In terms of plot, they're basically in the same situation they were in at the end of last episode, except taxi man isn't with them anymore, big fucking deal. The only new thing we got was a tiny piece of cryptic shit about mad sweeny's relationship with wednesday, which wasn't in the book either.

American Gods.

Emily Browning a CUTE

Needed much more Sweeey desu

why is no one making a remark about how bad she must smell?

>muh acshun
>muh plot progressun
holy fuck, stick with the walking dead buddy

Why'd he do it? There isn't a single redeeming factor to asshole dead wife.

what was that flashback before he put back the coin? did he kill her on the orders of wednesday?

Did I say anything about action faggot? There was plenty of dumb action showing off how badass deadwife is supposed to be, which again was basically a rehash of previous episodes.

Just fucking admit that there was almost nothing new in this episode. And don't you dare try say you're just trolling dumbass.

I thought it was the best episode of the series so far.

American Gods is a very intelligent show, but it doesn't usually have much in the way of feelings, but this episode did.

I really liked the story of Essie McGowan and Mad Sweeney.

I'm not trolling and you're a legit idiot if by episode seven you still haven't realized what type of show this is

It's a serial with some episodic "coming to america" segments. I wasn't commenting on those parts. They're fine I guess, in terms of giving background on the world and setting the tone.

But the main plot is serial and taken from an original work. An episode like this that wasn't from the original work and does not advance the plot or character relationships in any way is objectively filler trash.

Except, you know...Sweeney showed growth at the end of the episode.

>episode summary said it was going to be Sweeney's past
>Sweeney is there for all of 5 minutes, if that
honestly, I felt pretty let down

I saw that more as a small piece of background on his relationship with wednesday, rather than growth on his part.

Something like, puppetmaster odin arranged to have her die () and receive the coin from shadow, thus becoming a loyal superzombie. Or some contrived bullshit like that.

If the whole point of this episode and the last was to get sweeny in a situation where he had to give the coin back to zombie, I still think they wasted a lot of time getting to the point, and it wasn't really worth it in my opinion.

if you didn't like the book, you won't like the show. i liked the book, and i don't like the show

they're really dragging this out

It's a short book and they're making five seasons out of it

i thought it was 3 seasons. i wonder if they'll do anything from anansi boys

She's Essie's descendant. Or so it's implied, anyway, since Emily Brown plays both.

Why's she such a cunt?

It's confirmed they're including Anansi Boys material

You moronic ass. Now I hate this fag show as much as the next guy but Sweeney grew into a tall luxurious tree but you were too busy sucking your own nuts to have noticed.

I liked the episode

If she's the thief's descendant then her and Sweeney shares a destiny. Which makes her being a cunt even funnier.

Why are people watching this if its so fucking awful.

>cunt

Jesus fuck this episode. We didn't even get any leprechaun shit done in this episode. Where is his backstory? We just get nothing but this irish whore sleeping around stealing and telling stories to other people's kids. Dead waifu being all gross looking and shit. Bitch is ugly as fuck. Show is testing my damn patience.

fantabulous

I loved the book and went from loving the show to not even bothering to download the latest episode. It's about as hamfisted an adaptation as Preacher.

He doesn't know that, though. And if he does then he'd have known it the first time he killed her too.

Because she's a modern American woman.

So you got a whole set up that turned Mad Sweeney from a one note joke to a more layered character, making him a great guy in the process, and that's not enough?

The whole episode is about Sweeney.

What saddens me is that I find the series is laying it on way too thick to ever be really good, but still it's not enough for some.

She's not necessarily a strict descendant.

We're not seeing a literal depiction.The characters work pretty well as archetypes (what with the same actress playing both Macgowan once old and her grandmother) and Sweeney is seeing traces of the woman that bought him in Laura.

>He doesn't know that, though.
He's only now starting to recognise it in her face and personality.
>And if he does then he'd have known it the first time he killed her too.
He didn't recognise her then.

It wasn't really set up that turned him from A into B, it was just a bunch of meandering ending with him doing something that went against his established character without any real reason beyond the bitch looking like a girl who once gave him free food, and if that's meant to be the big swaying point then it's retarded because she always looked like that and for the past two episodes he's still been a giant asshole to her the entire time (justifiably, since she's an even bigger asshole, but even so). There's no real reason for him to give her the coin back outside of him being bipolar.

>personality
You fucking what? Essie was a sweet girl thrown into a shit situation who did what she had to do to survive. She lived for her dreams of magic and wander, tales of the leprechauns and fairyfolk always in her heart and ready to be told to anyone who would listen. Asshole dead wife is a nihilistic piece of shit who believes in nothing and hates her cozy family because they don't understand her edginess. They are nothing alike outside of appearance.

>She lived for her dreams of magic and wander, tales of the leprechauns and fairyfolk always in her heart and ready to be told to anyone who would listen. Asshole dead wife is a nihilistic piece of shit who believes in nothing and hates her cozy family because they don't understand her edginess.
When you put it that way, neither of them are to blame.

The New Gods are, and that's why Odin despises them so much and every shitty thing he ever does in his quest against them is justifiable.

>It wasn't really set up that turned him from A into B

It didn't turn him. He was always like that, you just didn't know. He's probably been feeling guilty about the murder for a while now. If anything it reframes everything you've seen previously in another light.

>beyond the bitch looking like a girl who once gave him free food

See The two woman may not even look similar physically, what we're seeing is a projection of Sweeney's thoughts (see how none of the Coming to America vignettes so far have been literal depictions either).
She didn't give him just food - sustenance, she gave him faith - existence. She changed his life by bringing him to Americas.

If Essie was born in modern times she'd probably end up like Laura did.

>none of the Coming to America vignettes so far have been literal depictions either

walking dead is like 10 episodes of fillers then 2 episodes things happen
bad example

You think he got a giant spider head out of nowhere halfway through his speech?

Not having Ian McShane really lowered the quality of the episode

>Asshole dead wife is a nihilistic piece of shit who believes in nothing and hates her cozy family because they don't understand her edginess.

Asshole dead wife is what remains of the Macgowans of the world when there is nothing left to believe in. Just materialism and, to quote Wednesday, New Gods that don't give back any meaning.

You can see that them in the insistence on showing Laura as disgruntled by the discovery that none of her childhood faith in stories turned real. And why she is slowly being born again now that she died: the stories are real.

This one confused me, can gods time travel? Or was it Ibis just being meta when he wrote the story?

this show is fucking bad. stop.

Not to mention the anachronistic clothing, which should be a dead giveaway.

But it did have Sweeny and since he's one of the best characters it's OK.

fuck you OP. I enjoyed this episode's coming to America tale with Mad Sweeney. Sometimes it's nice having a comfy feels episode to take a break from all the crazy shit that's been thrown at us.

Or do you want to see more homo genie butt sex?

Toastie roastie detected.

>Or do you want to see more homo genie butt sex?
yes please

Not travel, vision

Perhaps. Doesn't change the fact they're nothing alike and asshole dead wife is still an asshole.
>He was always like that
So that time he held her down in hot water to make her decompose quicker so he could take back his coin and leave her to rot was just, what, a body-double?
>what we're seeing is a projection of Sweeney's thoughts
Are you telling me that Anubis' black lover-boy (can't remember that dude's name) is reading Sweeney's mind when writing that Coming to America story? Because that's the framing device, him writing the story (which seems to be some kind of oracle thing, Anubis says something like, "I can see it in your fingers. You have a story coming on.") so it's not Sweeney's thoughts unless if that guy's actually Professor X.
That's useless conjecture. The fact they might have been alike if they had completely different lives doesn't change the fact they aren't at all alike. Laura might be a lot more like Shadow if she was born a black man and went to jail.

5 fucking seasons? Thanks for posting this, dropping now.

i couldn't even finish this episode. turned it off half way through. i hate this annoying skellington bitch and her character is fucking awful. not even sabotka could save their scenes.

t. coont wife

>8 episode season

>7 out of 8 episodes shown already

>4 of 7 have literally been filler

>next weeks might be filler


is this show even getting another season? i heard the ratings are shit. i dont blame people for dropping it. while i enjoy the filler episodes it does nothing to advance the plot. its like 2 different shows. fuck,shadow and odin the main characters have been in less than half of it already

Her character is more interesting than Shadow.

It didn't bother me since the main actor is not interesting in any way. The ep did drag on a bit though

It premiered to less than 1 million viewers, but was already picked up for season 2. It's primarily Amazon Video that wants it. As it's getting watched a lot by Prime users.

>Mad Sweeney is Nick Sobotka
Oh fuck, I knew I recognised him.

> it's not Sweeney's thoughts unless if that guy's actually Professor X.

But he is. He is motherfucking Thoth, creator of writing, scribe of the gods and scale of the Du'at.
He knows. That's his preview as a god.

>a flat chested big-headed superstrong decomposing zombie whore will never cuck you while still loving you with every fiber of her rotting black heart

What happened to her? She was so hot even a few years back. But now she's just nasty looking.

she is absolutely repulsive

season 2 has already been greenlit

anorexic/on drugs/ smoker

i dont know if any of these are true but it would make sense

shadow is also a shit character but at least the characters and actors that surround him are good. emily browning sucks the life out of every scene she's in

That has nothing to do with transcribing Sweeney's thoughts, he's transcribing actual history, so this idea that asshole dead wife and Essie looking the same is Sweeney projecting is bullshit because we're not viewing it from Sweeney's perspective.

>shadow is also a shit character


not to be that guy, but hes supposed to be shit. not gonna spoil it for you but its implied why in the book.

cause they did that last episode

I have an undeserved fondness for Shadow because his actor was so likeable on The 100

you have to pay for a starz subscription to watch it on prime

i stopped watching that show, did he ever fuck octavia?

She has a big head

Maybe in the US but nowhere else

she looks more like a zombie here than in the show

>So that time he held her down in hot water to make her decompose quicker so he could take back his coin and leave her to rot was just, what, a body-double?

That was him not being one note. You can be torn by guilt an not let it define you always. You can want to save people as much as you want to kill them. Without being bipolar, but just because individuals are a mess of conflicting wants and needs.

Sweeney wants his coin back. He also hates having been made a cold-hearted, calculating murderer. Where is the joy in that? Nothing like fighting an equal face to face.

This. Shadow's a fairly blank perspective character for the audience to relate to, he ties it together but it works because Odin and Czernobog and Mr. World and Vulcan etc. are the actual focus. Dead cunt wife on the other hand is both perspective and focus, her bits are all about her, even when there are good characters involved (like Sweeney and Anubis) she's the main point, and she's too shit to carry it.

What went wrong?

Yeah a lot.

shitty vegan diet. she's malnurished

I get a sensible chuckle every time he fearfully screams "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

They reserve it for such appropriate moments

pablo schreiber is a very entertaining actor, but not even he can save the scenes with this dead eyed cunt. they couldn't have picked a worst actress.

>Inconsistent writing is fine because humans are a mess of conflicting wants and needs
I'm sorry user, I didn't realise I was talking to a woman.

Because he's ridden with guilt.

sweeney deserves a fat titty wife.

What would the reaction have been if when Dead Wife got resurrected by Sweeney and she punched him, his head exploded?

>That has nothing to do with transcribing Sweeney's thoughts, he's transcribing actual history

So you think the Indians threw a hundred arrows as depicted in the first episode? You think Anansi appeared in full modern regalia to his believers? You think the same actress playing both the woman and her grandmother is what, a budget thing?

Those are stylized interpretations. Not neutral depictions. Events as filtered by the mind of someone.

I'm thinking there's latitude as to *whose* interpretation we're seeing (but her I doth ink Sweeney makes sense given the whole set up), but them being *literal* is hard case to make.

this is probably the most amount of time hes ever spent with another person every since he left that battle and went mad. hes probably developed some feelings

No reason to be sorry, I was fairly aware I was talking to someone with the mind of a child.

I actually don't think it's Emily Browning's fault, the Coming to America bit was fine (if a bit too drawn out) and she was good as Essie, I think the problem really is the writing (and possibly direction) for Laura. She's just a totally unlikeable and dull piece of shit, and there's not much any actress could do with that.

ssweeney deserves better fucking actors to work with instead of this hacktress emily

What was the point of the other story about the ginger girl

Is dead wife naked / walking around bra-less with rock hard nipples this entire episode again?