Whose side is Bilquis on?
Heres a spoiler-filled refresher on American Gods season one…
This article comes fromDen of Geek UK.
Warning: contains major spoilers for American Gods Season 1.
A war is coming.
The old gods and the new are preparing for battle.
Both sides are recruiting soldiers.
In the broadest of strokes, thats the story ofAmerican Godsseason one.
Pitched somewhere between the above, heres a recap of the major action so far ahead of season two…
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Your wife, she died in the early hours of this morning.
It was an automobile accident.
He pursues Shadow to get it back.
Technical Boys goons beat Shadow savagely and lynch him.
Im the one they sacrifice to.
She also tries to recruit him but confused, he ignores it as just another strange dream.
Shadow bets his life against Czernobog joining the cause in a game of checkers but loses.
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Hi Puppy.
Shadow and Wednesday pull off a scheme to rob a nights worth of bank deposits.
On Wednesdays urging, Shadow makes it snow.
At Shadows motel room, undead Laura is waiting for him.
Believing in nothing, she once tried to kill herself using bug spray in her hot tub.
Laura rescues Shadow from being lynched, visits Audrey, and has her arm sewn back on.
When Laura kisses Shadow, she feels her dead heart beat for the first time.
Youve gotten yourself mixed up in some really weird shit, Shadow.
The new godsMr World, Media and Technical Boypropose a merger with the old gods.
Having discovered Lauras empty grave, Mad Sweeney tracks her down to recover his magic coin.
Its enchantment means that he cant take it from her and she must give it willingly.
What came first, Gods or the people who believe in them?
When Essie dies, its Mad Sweeney who comes to take her to her death.
Lauras magic coin is flung from her body in the impact, which kills her permanently.
Wednesday was also the one who ruined Lauras perfect robbery plan and orchestrated Shadow going to prison.
He needed him to have nothing left to lose, Mad Sweeney explains to Laura.
We should start with a story.
Bilquis absorbs her lovers into her vagina, where they live on floating in a space-like void.
Anubis tells Wednesday that as the new Gods have a queen, he also needs one.
Wednesday and Shadow go to visit Ostara (Kristin Chenoweth), the goddess of spring.
They arrive mid-celebrations on Easter Sunday when Ostara is hosting a party for many incarnations of Jesus.
Laura and Mad Sweeney arrive at Ostaras, where Mad Sweeney has told Laura she can be resurrected.
Laura learns that because she was killed by a godWednesdayOstara cant resurrect her.
(That is a death without undoing.
Not by my hand, anyway.)
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Tell them weve taken the spring.
They can have it back when they pray for it.
Wednesday reveals his true identity to Shadow.
He is the ancient Norse God Odin.
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