‘American Gods': Bryan Fuller Teases Longer, ‘Much More Exciting’ Season 2

“Much of the pacing and dreamlike quality of Season 1 was about Shadow Moon’s (Ricky Whittle) mental state, and now that he’s been activated [as a believer], we can expect something a little different from how we’re going to tell the stories,” Fuller previewed.

Whittle’s character made a huge transformation in the Season 1 finale when Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) revealed his true identity – the Norse god Odin – and Shadow subsequently became a believer.

[...] the story we get to tell with Shadow in the future is one of a character who’s crossed that first benchmark, which was non-believer to believer.

“Originally, we had another episode and we were going to go all the way to House on the Rock,” he said, citing budgetary reasons for cutting the number of episodes in the season.

The season ends with just a brief tag of the aforementioned House on the Rock, with the god Bilquis (Yetide Badaki) arriving with mysterious intentions after a meeting with Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) earlier in the episode.

Fuller also credits the close cast for inspiring the writing of unusual character developments that diverge from the book.