It’s taken a minute for the shows return, nearly two years, following a second showrunner shakeup, but Starz’s “American Gods” is finally coming back. “American Gods” is based on celebrated fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s best-selling novel about a war brewing between Old Gods and New Gods: the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity, and drugs.
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Starring Ricky Whittle (“The 100,” “Nappily Ever After”) as Shadow Moon and Ian McShane (“Deadwood,” ‘John Wick’) as Mr. Wednesday, “American Gods” is a one-hour drama adapted that’s set to returns to the cable channel on March 10.
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Here’s the season two synopsis:
We were forged in God’s image, but the Gods are also made in ours — and in Season Two the battle moves inexorably toward crisis point as the destinies of gods and men collide. While Mr. World plots revenge for the attack against him in Season One, Shadow throws in his lot with Wednesday’s attempt to convince the Old Gods of the case for full-out war, with Laura and Mad Sweeney in tow. A council at the House on the Rock explodes into chaos, sending deities both Old and New on quests across America that will converge on Cairo, Illinois forcing Shadow to carve out a place as a believer in this strange new world of living gods — a dark world where change demands commitment, and faith requires terrible sacrifice.
“American Gods” was originally brought to you by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, the creator of “Hannibal” and the writer of “Logan,” and “Blade Runner 2049,” respectively. An exciting team that was greatly anticipated, “American Gods” didn’t quite make the splash as expected when it first premiered in 2017 and Starz eventually replaced them with showrunner Jesse Alexander (“Heroes” and “Lost“), who was then unceremoniously fired before season two even began (apparently lots of problems followed including demands from Neil Gaiman and unhappy actors rewriting scripts).
Still, he has a credit. While Starz doesn’t exactly say who the showrunner is in season 2 in their new press release “American Gods” credits Alexander, Neil Gaiman, Craig Cegielski, Scott Hornbacher, Ian McShane, Stefanie Berk, Christopher J. Byrne, and Padraic McKinley as the collective executive producers.
Regardless, Starz would like to move on and have you focus on season two, and the official trailer is finally here. Directors of s2 include Floria Sigismondi, Chris Byrne, Stacie Passion, Rachel Talalay, and more.
“American Gods,” premiering on Sunday, March 10th, 2019 at 8 PM ET/PT on Starz. Watch the new trailer below.