This is an eyeful with an interesting premise and a whole glittering galaxy of terrific actors, but it's not for kids, not even close. Many characters curse routinely: 'f-k,' 'f-king,' 'motherf-king,' 'goddamn,' 'a-hole,' 's-t,' 'ass,' 'hell,' 'teat,' 'piss off,' a man calls a particular group of woman 'bitches.' Characters drink, take Ativan to deal with emotional blows, and in one vivid scene a god smokes 'synthetic toad skins' (a hallucinogen?) in a vape-like pipe. There are vulgar terms for different types of sex, and for body parts (male and female) characters urinate onscreen.

Characters have sex nude the woman's breasts are visible for a long time as she thrusts and moans, exchanging very graphic talk with her partner other scenes include full-frontal male nudity and same-sex couplings. A woman kills a man during sex by devouring him with her private parts, and there's a lot of horror-movie type imagery: henchmen with featureless heads, a ground heaped with human bones. Men take part in a ritual in which one eye is stabbed out, men punch each other in the face until they're bloody pulps, complete with sickening crunching noises. There's frequent brutal violence, with onscreen deaths by decapitation, stabbings, slashings, bludgeonings, with spouting blood, lingering shots of gore, dead bodies, and disembodied limbs. Parents need to know that American Gods is a surreal drama (based on the book by Neil Gaiman) that truly earns its TV-MA rating.

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