《美国众神》主要讲述了新神和旧神之间一场正在酝酿的战争：神话中传统的神开始逐渐失去了自己的信徒，转而去信仰一些新崛起的新神，新神反映了当前社会对金钱、科技、现代媒体、名人名流和药物毒品的贪恋。剧中主要描写Mr. Wednesday（Ian McShane饰），一个狡猾而魅力无穷的骗子，充满了邪恶的智慧、令人好奇的魔法以及宏伟的抱负。他雇佣有诈骗前科的Shadow Moon（Ricky Whittle饰）作为贴身保镖伴游美国，用他个人魅力到处招兵买马为最终的新旧神之间的战争做准备。
播出日期: 2017-04-30
运行时间: 60 min
概述: When Shadow Moon is released from prison early after the death of his wife, he meets Mr. Wednesday and is recruited as his bodyguard. Shadow discovers that this may be more than he bargained for.
播出日期: 2017-05-07
运行时间: 56 min
概述: As Mr. Wednesday begins recruitment for the coming battle, Shadow Moon travels with him to Chicago and agrees to a very high stakes game of checkers with the old Slavic god, Czernobog.
播出日期: 2017-05-14
运行时间: 57 min
概述: Shadow questions the terms of his employment when Mr. Wednesday informs him of his plan to rob a bank (because, naturally, every army needs a source of funding). And just when Shadow thought his life couldn’t get any more complicated, he returns to his motel room to a surprising discovery.
播出日期: 2017-05-21
运行时间: 56 min
概述: Alternating between the past and the present, Laura’s life and death are explored—how she met Shadow, how she died, and how exactly she came to be sitting on the edge of his motel room bed.
播出日期: 2017-05-28
运行时间: 54 min
概述: Trying to work things out with his dead and unfaithful wife, Shadow's emotional reunion is interrupted when he and Mr. Wednesday are kidnapped by the New Gods.
播出日期: 2017-06-04
运行时间: 50 min
概述: On the run after the New Gods' show of force, Shadow and Mr. Wednesday seek safe haven with one of Mr. Wednesday's oldest friends, Vulcan, God of the Fire and the Forge.
播出日期: 2017-06-11
运行时间: 49 min
概述: Her brief reunion with Shadow over far too quickly, Laura turns to an unlikely travel companion to find her way back to life, and back to Shadow. Mad Sweeney's long, winding, and often tragic past is explored.
播出日期: 2017-06-18
运行时间: 58 min
概述: On the eve of war, Mr. Wednesday must recruit one more Old God: Ostara, ne Easter, Goddess of the Dawn, but winning her over will require making a good impression, and that is where Mr. Nancy comes in.
