Orlando Jones Fired From American Gods, Sent Black America “Wrong Message” – Deadline
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deadline.comPosted Dec 18, 2019, 6:03 PM UTC
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deadline.comTranslation, the black gods got too much screen time in season 2 .
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Kinda upset that Anansi won't be in Season 3 of the show.
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I don't understand... you're firing him for reading his lines?
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Lines apparently he wrote with your(studio) approval
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The speech he made on the slave ship was the reason I started watching the show.
His absence is the reason I won't support the next season.
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Seriously, I just watched that clip and although it makes me want to watch the show, I won't be watching if the brother be fired
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I don't watch the show. What's it about?
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TLDR is all the gods are real and going to war with each other. Mainly its the old gods (Odin, Zeus and all those) against the gods of the new generation (Media, Tech, and others).
Orlando's character is an old god of mischief from Africa and he talks a lot about how the gods have failed black Americans and how they have a right to be mad. His side is he wants the old gods to when to do something about it. Most of his screen time is him give great speeches and telling off people telling him hes wrong.
His character is so good that the only reason I could see him being kicked off the show is cause they dont like what he was saying. But I dont get why they just dont tone him down rather than fire him.
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This sounds like a nice show, where can I watch it?
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Starz
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Showtime.
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Its based on a Neal Gaiman book about how the old. Gods have to adapt to the new world and adapt to the new way people worship. Some people feel it's great and others think the book/show is blasphemous (multiple versions of Jesus exist for different cultures /races)
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The show centers around a guy named Shadow and another they call Monday or something. During the course of the show you meet several characters that are described as "Gods", but like they are "American Gods'. Imagine all the huge culture innovations and there is probably some sort of God about it in the show, but there are also old Gods in the show that are shown. Without giving too many spoilers and because I haven't finished the show myself I can tell you that there is like a "Tech God" who's all about social media and stuff like that, there's a TV/Media God who people worship because people watch TV too much lol, there is a "Gun" God because apparently Americans love and worship Guns alot.
Those are just a few, but regardless the main character shadow looks like us ("black")! I'd give it a watch if your bored I just haven't finished it yet.
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If you check out the user reviews on IMDb, this show has been brigaded, I think it's the term, by white supremacist for a while now. This leads me to believe, that the first two seasons must have been really f****** good, and some too real information was in there, because now it sounds like it's being gutted from the inside.
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His bitter diatribe, aboard the slave ship, was the most powerful moment in the whole series! He kept dropping gems throughout the series. Without him, I won’t watch!
My other favorite is his speech in the morgue about slavery being rebranded as human trafficking
Yessss! When he said slavery got a rebrand, like the alt right! I’m not surprised they let him go though. Never had a black male, spitting truth like that, without being in a dress .