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HeвЂ™s playing to win this time, and he does. Ricky WhittleвЂ™s characterization of Shadow changes between his interactions with Zorya and Chernobog, and heвЂ™s more confident and assertive when he convinces Chernobog to play another game.

Zorya is a light in the darkness, and ShadowвЂ™s interaction with her inspires him to take control of his fate while he still can: He goes back downstairs, challenges Chernobog to a checkers rematch. Right now, heвЂ™s a shadow of a man, willing to lose his head to Chernobog rather than live in a world where he has to acknowledge that thereвЂ™s something bigger than his pain. Reading his fortune, Zorya tells Shadow that he has nothing because he believes in nothing, but she also sees that heвЂ™s on a path from nothing to everything. Much of their conversation involves ominous warnings about a future threat that is going to end the world, but Zorya is mostly interested in discussing ShadowвЂ™s lack of belief and inspiring him to find faith in something. After betting away his life on a game of checkers at the end of the last episode, Shadow wakes up and climbs the fire escape to find Zorya Polunochnaya (Erika Kaar), the youngest of the Zorya sisters, stargazing at a sky that is slowly being overtaken by storm clouds. Shadow is getting pulled deeper into a world of myth and magic with each moment. He can rationalize other people pulling coins out of thin air, but conjuring a snowstorm with his mind is something that can only be explained by accepting that what he once considered fantasy is now very real.

#Watch american gods season 1 episode 3 full#

ShadowвЂ™s struggle to make sense of his new reality and believe in the impossible is at the core of вЂњHead Full of Snow,вЂќ which reveals a greater power within Shadow that leaves him even more perplexed. He believed in love when he was with his wife, but sheвЂ™s dead after cheating on him with his best friend, so heвЂ™s back to a life of skepticism despite all of the unexplainable weirdness unfolding around him. But as weвЂ™ve seen, Shadow Moon doesnвЂ™t believe in anything anymore.

It creates gods and keeps them alive, and as long as they have believers, the gods cannot die. Photo: Jan Thijs/Starz Entertainment, LLC