American Gods
has released its third episode today, and with it one of the most explicit gay sex scenes ever shown on television.
The Starz
fantasy series sees depressed salesman Salim (Omid Abtahi) finds himself in a
cab driven by a jinn – who you might call a genie, an ancient Arab god. Mousa
Kraish plays the centuries-old taxi driver and the two connect.
Each episode
departs from the main story for a Coming to America segment, showing how other
humans interact with these ‘gods’ that walk among them.
Neil Gaiman,
who wrote the original novel, said the experience of watching the finished
onscreen result was ‘absolute amazement and absolute joy’.
Run by gay
writer and director Bryan Fuller and his producing partner Michael Green, they
said they wanted the scene to be ‘undeniably beautiful for even those who were
uncomfortable with same-sex romance’.
The scene
begins Salim kept waiting in an office wearing an ill-fitting suit and a box of
trinkets to sell. The hours tick by but no one wants to see him.
After hours of
waiting, he is forced out into the pouring rain of New York City. His taxi
driver keeps his sunglasses on even at night.
But soon they
talk about Oman, where Salim is from, and an ancient city from long ago.
His taxi driver
falls asleep in the traffic. Salim goes to shake him awake, and as he does the
sunglasses fall away. And in the rear view mirror, Salim sees eyes that burn
with fire.
Salim
recognizes the jinn for what he is. The jinn said he had been at the wheel for
30 hours trying to make a buck, and the two connect over their misfortune.
They reach
Salim’s hotel, and nervously, the salesman offers up his room number.
The jinn goes
to shower, and Salim undresses. Once the bathroom door opens, the jinn drops
his towel to reveal a huge penis. (You can see it on the show, sorry we can’t
show it here!)
‘I wish you
could see what I could see,’ Salim says, as he gets on his knees.
‘I do not grant
wishes,’ the jinn says. The two kiss and get on the bed.
They kiss
deeply and passionately.
And then, the
jinn prepares Salim.
They have sex
slowly and sensually, with any kind of trepidation falling away.
And as it
reaches the climax…
The world falls
away, and the couple are transported to the deserts of ancient Oman. The jinn
fills Salim with an ejaculation of flame.
And Salim can
feel it in every part of him.
The next day,
and Salim awakes. The jinn is nowhere to be found. Salim’s clothes and
belongings are gone, and the taxi driver’s stuff only remains.
Getting
dressed, Salim dons the sunglasses and begins his new life working behind the
wheel.
Speaking at an
American Gods screening at a EW panel, Green said: ‘The more Bryan and I talked
about it and the more he brought his perspective into it, I saw it as a story
of a god giving a man permission to be himself and to enjoy sex and to be made
love to.’
American Gods
actor: ‘It was just so beautiful’
‘Just seeing
two Middle Eastern men represented in that way, with humor and love and
joy…it’s taken me 11 years to get to that,’ Kraish said.
And Abtahi
said: ‘It was just so fucking beautiful. I’m so proud to be a part of it.’
While the
original novel only featured Salim and the jinn in one segment, viewers will be
able to see more of their story going forward.
American Gods
airs on Starz and Amazon. The third episode is out now.
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