![]() However, when Tyr tried to woo the goddess Demeter, she chose his roguishly charming mate Wednesday instead. ![]() ![]() The tale goes something like this: back when the country was young, Wednesday was making a good living as a gun-for-hire along with his fellow Norse war god Tyr (Denis O’Hare, now the dentist Dr Tyrell we met back in this season’s second episode). Their tragic backstory is told partly through historical flashback, and partly through an elaborate shadow-play that Wednesday writes and performs for Demeter (Wednesday clearly has a thing for Shadows). This week’s American Gods episode begins on the actual battlefields of the American Revolution, where one of this season’s biggest mysteries is finally unraveled: just what exactly did Wednesday (Ian McShane) do that Demeter (Blythe Danner) still hasn’t forgiven him for all these years later? ![]() Love, as the great philosopher Pat Benatar famously observed, is a battlefield.
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