#Deadwood season 3 episode 6 movie
Tonally, that particular movie was all over the place, but the tonal shifts in Donar The Great work because of the split in settings. It’s fun and zippy, and it’s kind of a reminder to some of the more interesting scenes of Talalay’s Tank Girl. The con scene is good, solidly performed and well put together by director Rachel Talalay, but where she shines is in the song and dance number Wednesday and the girls do at the burlesque show. Now he’s turning to war, and using Shadow to work cons on people to get Lou Reed’s leather jacket and restore the runes to his famed spear.
In this case, he wants to ride Donar’s coattails to greater worship, to restore the whole pantheon, but his attempt is unsuccessful. He still has bigger dreams than to simply scrape out a worship existence thanks to a few neo-pagans. He concocts a similar plan to get Laura out of the way, giving him access to Shadow in a vulnerable-enough state to agree. It’s not true, of course, and it ends tragically for all three parties, but it establishes that the old God, for all his sadness, hasn’t really learned a lesson. When Columbia gets an invitation from Technical Boy to become the face of the war movement, she jumps at the chance (with Odin’s encouragement) after being told that Donar was heading off to be the face of the American Nazi movement. When Donar gets an invitation to be the face of American muscle courtesy of an American pro-Nazi group, he jumps at the chance (with Odin’s encouragement).
Donar, Columbia, and Wednesday can scratch out a meagre living drawing the worship of a few hundred theatregoers in a ramshackle burlesque revue, but that’s not enough for any of them. Yes, he’s still a tricky devil, manipulating others and trying to work his plans to keep Donar around while getting rid of Thor’s pesky girlfriend Columbia (Laura Bell Bundy, playing the pre-Liberty personification of the United States of America). Of all the threads that have been unravelled during American Gods‘ second season, the flashbacks involving Wednesday and his son Donar AKA Thor (Derek Theler) are the most effective bits, and some of the better writing thus far.įull credit to both Ian McShane and Adira Lang, whose script stays true to the character of Wednesday while imbuing the character with more pathos than he’s had so far.
Wednesday’s past as a burlesque leader named Al Grimnir is an amusing nod to both one of Odin’s many names (Grimnir) and Ian McShane’s most famous non-Lovejoy character, Deadwood‘s Al Swearingen, who was a similarly greasy, yet intimidating, huckster of booze and women and lascivious entertainment.