American Gods Recap: Git Gone

Season 1/ Episode 4/ Starz Pretty much every episode of American Gods so far has focused on Shadow Moon. Which is a bit of a step away from the books which casts the protagonist as a stoic who is mostly there so we can meet all of the gods he comes across. Episode four, entitled “Git Gone,” steps even further into this new territory by adding depth to a character that will play a much larger role than expected in Laura Moon. [It also committed the grave sin of giving Dane Cook a job. But we’ll get into that later.] As a devoted fan of How I Met Your Mother – team Mosby fo’ life! – I couldn’t help but be reminded of the classic episode entitled “How Your mother Met Me” while watching the latest episode of American Gods. We’ve already gotten to know plenty about Shadow in the present and have had loose references to his origin story. But this episode focused heavily on Laura’s story before she met Shadow and caught us up all the way until her present moment sitting on his motel room bed as a zombie. “Git Gone” opens by showing Laura working as a dealer in a casino with an ancient Egyptian theme. You can tell she doesn’t really enjoy her job as much as puts up with it before she’s pushed even further into discontent when they upgrade her shuffling duties to a machine. Her life’s noticeably lacking in the happiness department. She lives alone with a cat and spends her evenings reading and contemplating suicide by way of an enclosed hot tub and a can of bug spray. [Some people thi…