Starz’s American Gods’s just wrapped up its third season with a huge cliffhanger. If you haven’t watched the season finale, be forewarned – there are spoilers.
In the last episode of the third season, Ricky Whittle’s Shadow Moon finds out that his father, Mr. Wednesday (played by Ian McShane) had conned him until the very end. Not only was everything planned since the beginning of the series, but everything was planned since before Shadow was born. Meaning, Odin planned to be killed and for Shadow to sacrifice himself for his father, so his father could then reclaim his former glory. Not exactly something you want to find out while you’re literally dying for someone.
Neil Gaiman, who wrote the book that the show is based on; opened up about season three’s climatic end:
“Episodes 9 and 10 are a couple of my favorite episodes of the whole of American Gods. It’s like all of the ravens come home to roost. This is where lots of things that were set up in season 1, and even some things set up in season 2, this is where they all come in and land. At the end of episode 10, we know and Shadow knows what’s going on. So we’re very, very much back in the book.”
Season four has not been confirmed yet. And with each season comes a new showrunner. Gaiman says he’d really love if season three showrunner Charles “Chic” H. Eglee stayed on for a potential (and hopeful) season four:
“I would love that continuity. I sigh deeply when I learn that somebody else has left, because it means that I’m going to have to start again at the beginning with somebody, and that is literally the last thing that any of us want. But on the good side, it means that I’ve made a lot of friends that I wouldn’t have made otherwise. I put a lot of things into the stew in the beginning, and so did Bryan and Michael. Jesse put some stuff into the stew. And now Chic has actually sort of stirred it and spiced it and is serving the stew to perfection.”
Gaiman continued:
“I think season 1 was fabulous, but it tended to become almost an anthology show. There was the Laura episode, and the Easter episode. One of the things I love about season 3 is it doesn’t really do that. You remember high points and low points, but mostly it becomes a driving story that gets you through and a story in which Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon finally steps into his role.”
While we wait for a season four, Gaiman opens up if the American Gods story could go beyond that:
“We definitely wrap the novel in season 4. But it is open-ended, in that with each of the showrunners, I’ve had to sit down and say, ‘okay, this is the plot of the next American Gods book, which I have not yet written, but you need to know this, because you need to know that these characters are important, and you need to know that this thing leads to that thing. So all three of them, bless their hearts, have done things to set that up, if we ever get there.”
Come on, Starz, give us a fourth and final season!
You can check out my review of season three’s finale here.
Source: EW
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