![]() Under the deck are African slaves, who’re chained together to the vessel’s walls. ![]() “The Secret of Spoon” opens on a Dutch slave ship heading for America in 1697. ![]() Starz’s American Gods comes into its own with “The Secret of Spoon,” achieving a free-associative emotional ferocity that wasn’t fully present in last week’s “The Bone Orchard.” While the phrase “free-associative” feels right as a descriptor of this episode’s wandering, hallucinatory emotional texture, “The Secret of Spoon” is actually quite tightly structured and governed by rhyming symbols, in a manner that recalls co-creator Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal.Ī jolting prologue indicates right off the bat that we’re entering terrain of increasingly uncomfortable social resonance.
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