Even then, for viewers tuning in last night, the Jinn scene proved particularly jaw-dropping in its unexpectedly graphic depiction of a love scene between two men. This will be of no surprise to anyone who has been watching the show, in which Shadow ( Ricky Whittle) unfortunately found the photographic evidence of his late wife’s affair with his best friend, and the audience saw a poor soul being devoured sexually by the goddess of love, Bilquis (Yetide Badaki).
If there is a sex scene in a show or film that if you eliminated it, someone can still appreciate the emotional journeys of the characters, then it probably wasn’t done right – or at least that’s how we went about it.' They knew that there was going to be sexual content in this show, we were clear that our sexual content was always going to be uncuttable in the sense that it would be related to character and story and be presented as artfully as anything else. When Bryan Fuller and Michael Green began to adapt American Gods for the small-screen, they had a rule in place in regards to the novel's often graphic depictions of sexuality: If there was going to be nudity, then everyone would be getting naked! Green expanded upon this rule, which Fuller jokingly referred to as 'Starz loves cock': Warning: SPOILERS ahead for episode three of American Gods
