And for a change, there was an actual point to it, too. In truth, while the scene was intense and intimate, it was also tender and moving, and no more explicit than the straight sex scenes in cable TV shows. “Most explicit gay sex scene in TV history,” screamed the paper’s website, which helpfully carried nine screen grabs from the scene to show its readers how truly ghastly this whole dirty business was.
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It depicted two Muslim men, one of them a taxi driver who’s really a djinn - a creature from Arabian and Islamic mythology - having sex in a New York City hotel room. Next episode of American Gods features 'the single hottest and most pornographic gay sex scene ever'.Like this year’s other great book-to-screen transfer, The Handmaid’s Tale, American Gods is considerably more than the sum of the novel’s many great parts. It all enriches Gaiman’s original vision of a war between the old gods and the new ones that have usurped them. And not for a moment does any of this feel like the story is being padded simply to justify spreading it over several seasons. Histories and backstories that were only hinted at in the book have been fleshed out. Five Jesuses, actually: white, black, Mexican, Asian and hippy. Jesus, who wasn’t in the book, will be showing up soon. Gaiman has even introduced some completely new ones specifically for the series. Pre-existing characters have been updated (the book is now 16 years old) or given bigger roles. You can admire the ingenious way showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green have - with hands-on involvement from Gaiman - painstakingly adapted the novel (the first season covers just a third of it), while at the same time building on it. You can single out the ravishing photography, lavish production design and state-of-the-art special effects, which add up to one of the most visually stunning TV spectacles ever seen. There are plenty of things to be thrilled and astounded by in American Gods, based on Neil Gaiman’s epic modern fantasy novel.