How to Watch American Gods

On January 10, 2021, Starz’s American Gods returns with its 3rd season of the mystical, sensual, and gritty adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s best-selling novel.

• When American Gods Airs: 9 pm ET on Sundays
• TV Network: Starz
• Best Way to Stream Live: Anyone can watch using this special offer to Starz

How To Watch American Gods

American God’s Airs on Starz, but you don’t need cable to watch. You can sign up for Starz directly and watch American Gods on your TV with just about any streaming device. Right now there is a special offer to give you Starz for $5 per month if you sign up for 6 months.

The Starz App is supported on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV devices, and modern web browsers. You can also use the Starz App on iOS and Android tablets and phones.

Once you sign up, you can watch American God’s on your TV by activating Starz on your device by following the instructions below on most streaming devices

• Sign in to your Roku or other streaming devices.
• Launch the Starz app/channel. (If the App isn’t in your menu, simply download it from the appropriate app store on your device)
• Sign in to the Starz app with the email address and password you used when signing up for Starz. You will see an activation code.
• Then, go to activate.starz.com
• Enter the activation code on the Roku TV screen in the provided box.

You can also sign up for Starz directly through Philo, Hulu, Sling TV, DIRECTV STREAM

What Is American Gods About

American Gods debuted on Starz in April 2017, and was a critical and fan hit. The series centers on Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle, The 100, Mistresses), an ex-convict who, after losing his wife in a tragic accident on the eve of his release from prison, is struggling to find his purpose. When charismatic con man Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane, Deadwood) offers him a job as body guard, Shadow finds himself plunged into a world beyond reality, the hidden America, in which old gods of myth are tailors, cab drivers, and morticians, living mundane lives and clinging to the thread of belief that sustain them. 

After centuries in America, borne to these shores by generations of people traversing the globe, the old gods are being lost and forgotten. As their religions and believers diminish, they are growing weak, fading away, and being wiped out by the new gods of Media, Technology, and Globalization. However, Mr. Wednesday is on a quest to recruit the old gods to pull together, to gather their strength, and go to war to save their very existence, and Shadow has yet to know his own mysterious role in this pending clash of the titans.

Following the many layers in Gaiman’s novel, it is an expansive series, stretching not just across the American landscape, from tourist trap to dusty motel, but back through millennia of human belief and mythology. Each episode contains stories within the story, prologues that show the arrival of gods and their people to American shores. Its intriguing mix of urban fantasy and horror is definitely on the adult end, particularly in terms of the violence (a warning to the faint of heart). However, American Gods is also clearly supported by the budget to make the show visually stunning, bigger than life, and captivating in its creation of moments of magic that roil and tumble free from the gritty façade of everyday life. Behind a grimy motel door, a goddess receives her sacrifices of worship, and a fire escape in Queens rises infinitely to the heavens and the entry to the afterlife.

American Gods Season 1 Trailer

The cast of characters—and the cast that plays them—is as broad as the stories and histories represented. Featured actors include Emily Browning (The Affair) as Shadow’s dead-but-not-gone wife Laura, Pablo Schreiber as a volatile leprechaun Mad Sweeney, Peter Stormare as a god of darkness and death, Orlando Jones as trickster god Anansi, and a delightfully floral bedecked Kristen Chenoweth as Easter, as well as goddess of love Bilquis (Yetide Badaki), Anubis (Chris Obi), and Egyptian god Thoth (Demore Barnes). 

The slick, flickering persona of the new gods’ leader, Mr. World, is played with glee by Crispin Glover, accompanied by Bruce Langley as Technological Boy, and Gillian Anderson as the shape shifting pop-culture channeling New Goddess Media. (Season 2 will see a new New Goddess of New Media rise in Kahyun Kim.)

After spending the first season building the team and laying the groundwork for what’s to come, on March 10, it’s show time and the gods are ready for war. 

American Gods Season 2 Trailer