
He still offers Odin respect, and he’s loath to launch into a war with the Old Gods, despite their weakness and his high-tech trickery.

World sends Technical Boy off to find Media, and he holds court with an elderly security guard at Black Briar. In terms of plot, “The House on the Rock” feels thin. World uses the power of the Eye of Argus and the Cold War-era nuclear bunker Black Brier, a take on the real-life Greenbrier (a hotel/fallout bunker of massive proportions built in secret by the US government through a front company).įurther reading: American Gods: What Happened in Season 1? While Wednesday uses the kitsch of roadside attractions and a bacchanal at a diner in lieu of Valhalla’s feasting, Mr. After smashing the New Gods and taking their rightful place in charge of America, of course. Wednesday’s job is to talk a bunch of Gods from a variety of cultures and epochs into working together to stop scraping together worshipful moments where they can find them and actually go out and inspire the people again.

World is ready to use all the weapons at his disposal, literally, to stop Wednesday in his attempt to bring the Old Gods together to unite against him and the New Gods. The bulk of the second season debut deals with two stories.
