In an interview earlier this month, we talked to Gaiman about why Fuller and Green were the right people for the job. For Gaiman, Fuller was someone he could trust to bring American Gods to the screen. “It was Bryan who went and found Michael,” said Gaiman. The two had previously met and worked together on Heroes, and had been looking for something to collaborate together on ever since. Green has his own impressive resume, including the creation of NBC prestige drama Kings and, more recently, as co-writer on Logan. The two were more than up for the task, bringing Gaiman’s imaginative, ambitious, and complicated work to modern TV screens in phantasmagoric ways. Has Gaiman learned anything new about his work through seeing what Fuller and Green have done with it? Gaiman notes that “I think I’ve fallen in love with Laura again, so that is interesting for me.” The role of Laura Moon, Shadow’s undead wife, has been expanded from the book for the TV show, with the character getting her own episode to tell her story halfway through the season. It’s one example of the ways in which Fuller and Green have expanded the roles of women from the novel to the screen. In ruminating on what he has learned from the TV show, Gaiman added:
