bruce langley

  • American Gods Is Relying Too Much On Its Heady Subtext

    American Gods Is Relying Too Much On Its Heady Subtext

    American Gods’ anthropomorphic deities are multidimensional concepts made flesh, but they’re also flawed, emotional beings very much like the mortals whose collective beliefs willed them into existence over the millennia. Striking the right balance between the gods’ larger-than-life personae and their everyday human lives is the difficult task the show successfully set out to do…