THE SCREENING ROOM
RED WIDOW: Yetide Badaki as Bilquis, a hungry goddess who gives a new meaning to the term “dinner date.”
STARZ; LOUISE LAWLER
EARLY ON IN
American Gods, the new eight-part fantasy drama from Starz, a first-time flyer is treated to an alternative theory of air travel by a fellow passenger. His seatmate explains that the 80-ton hunk of metal in which they are sitting has no business being airborne. But then Isaac Newton came along, he says, with his story about airflow and lift. “None of which makes a lick of sense,” he continues. “But you’ve got 82 passengers who believe it so fiercely that the plane continues to fly.”