Genre Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Cast Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, Pablo Schreiber
Rating TV-MA
Series Premiere March 10th, 2019 (Starz)
“A recently released ex-convict named Shadow meets a mysterious man who calls himself “Wednesday” and who knows more than he first seems to about Shadow’s life and past.”
“The series is based on the 2001 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman, which follows a former convict, Shadow Moon (played by Ricky Whittle in the show), after he’s hired by a mysterious individual named Mr. Wednesday (played by Ian McShane). He acts as a body guard and driver for the man as he travels across the country on a secretive mission. (Spoilers ahead) The first season of the highly stylized show saw the pair meeting a number of strange individuals on their journey, and it isn’t until the finale that Shadow Moon realizes that the man he’s been accompanying isn’t a human at all, but a manifestation of the Norse god Odin, who is busy recruiting allies for a coming war between the older pantheon of gods, and a newer, aggressive generation that wants to squash them out.
This new trailer teases that coming battle as the pair continue their journey. “Gradually, they abandoned us.” Wednesday intones. “Old, forgotten Gods. Now there are new Gods growing in America. And they want to destroy us.” Shadow Moon, it seems, has a bigger role to play coming up.”