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May 7, 2017 · The Secret of Spoons: Directed by David Slade. With Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley. Mr. Wednesday begins recruitment for the coming battle; Shadow Moon travels to Chicago with Mr. Wednesday and agrees to a high-stakes game of checkers with the old Slavic deity Czernobog.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- David Slade
- 2017-05-07
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"The Secret of Spoons" is the second episode of the first season of American Gods and the second of the overall series. It debuted on May 7, 2017.
Mr. Wednesday begins recruitment for the coming battle; Shadow Moon travels to Chicago with Mr. Wednesday and agrees to a high-stakes game of checkers with the old Slavic deity Czernobog.
Mr. Ibis writes a story of a Dutch slave ship and the shackled people within its hold who are being transported to America to be sold. A man, Okoye, prays in desperation to Anansi, pleading for help and telling him he would give him gifts if he had them. Mr. Nancy manifests from a spider and begins to tell them a story. He informs them that they are Black and will be enslaved by white people for centuries, worked to death, murdered, shot in the back by police. Okoye is angered by what he hears and Anansi tells him to use that anger to go upstairs to kill the Dutch slavers and set fire to the ship. Another man says that it will kill them all and Anansi replies that they're already dead and might as well die in sacrifice instead of subjugation. He frees Okoye and leaves. Okoye frees the rest of the the slaves and they set fire to the ship. A plank of the destroyed ship washes ashore and Anansi the Spider arrives in America.
Shadow goes to a hospital to treat the injuries he received from Technical Boy's Children. The nurse asks if he was shot because he would have to call the police. Shadow tells him no and to not involve the police. He returns to the motel and pounds on Wednesday's door, disrupting him with a young, blonde woman. He tells Wednesday how Technical Boy hijacked him and tried to kill him. Wednesday offers him occupational hazard pay and doubles his salary. Wednesday promises that he is angry about Technical Boy and has a plan.
Shadow goes to his room and draws up a bath. He removes his wedding ring. He goes to bed and dreams of Laura visiting him. He tells her she's dead and she replies that he is having a bad dream and he wakes up to find himself alone. He cries himself back to sleep.
The next day, he arrives at Laura's house to pack up her stuff. He avoids the coroner's box with Laura's belongings, leaving it for last. Once he's finished packing, he opens the box and removes Laura's cell phone. He scrolls through her texts and finds a dick pic from Robbie, confirming their affair. He cleans the house, scrubbing the bathroom floor so hard his fingers bleed. After he is finished, Wednesday arrives, asking if he'll miss Eagle Point. Shadow says no because it was Laura's town. Wednesday tells Shadow that he only gets to be upset for so long because Laura was cheating on him.
They take off in Wednesday's car, Betty, and start driving. Wednesday informs Shadow they won't ever take the highway and will take back roads to recruit various people to attend a meeting in one of the most sacred places in America. Their first stop is Chicago to get Wednesday's hammer.
They stop at a diner where Wednesday is meeting someone. He gives Shadow a list and sends him shopping. Shadow heads to a superstore to get the items on Wednesday's list, including maps, romance novels, cigarettes, and vodka. As he is walking through the store, I love Lucy is playing on one of the TVs in the store's entertainment section. Lucy calls out to Shadow from the TV, stopping him. He unplugs the TV and all of the TVs in the display go black before Lucy appears again. She explains the screen is the altar and she is the one they sacrifice their time and attention to. She offers Shadow a job to work for her because Wednesday isn't even yesterday while she is today and tomorrow. She is impressed by how Shadow handled the Technical Boy and she won't underestimate him. Shadow refuses her offer. She tells him she is trying to help him.
Main cast
•Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon •Emily Browning as Laura Moon •Crispin Glover as Mr. World (credit only) •Bruce Langley as Technical Boy (credit only) •Yetide Badaki as Bilquis •Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney (credit only) •Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday
Guest starring
•Orlando Jones as Mr. Nancy •Gillian Anderson as Media •Cloris Leachman as Zorya Vechernyaya •Martha Kelly as Zorya Utrennyaya •Peter Stormare as Czernobog •Mousa Kraish as The Jinn •Conphidance as Okoye •Joel Murray as Paunch
Co-starring
•Vivien Endicott Douglas as Pizza Delivery Woman (as Vivien Endicott-Douglas) •Murray Oliver as Doctor •Don Mike as Slave •Jane Smythe as Bilquis Conquest 1 •Kris Babcock as Bilquis Conquest 2 •Pastel Supernova as Bilquis Conquest 4 •Lucan Andre Francis as Bilquis Conquest 5
•Shadow references the poem "Strange Fruit," written by Abel Meeropol and most famously performed by Billie Holiday. It is a protest song about racism and in particular, lynchings.
•The title of the episode is in reference to an "old" song about stirring coffee that Czernobog sings while he's playing checkers with Shadow. Michael Green came up with the lyrics while reminiscing about a favorite aunt who had passed away, leaving him a sugar bowl and spoon.
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