His taxi driver falls asleep in the traffic. His taxi driver keeps his sunglasses on even at night.īut soon they talk about Oman, where Salim is from, and an ancient city from long ago. The hours tick by but no one wants to see him.Īfter hours of waiting, he is forced out into the pouring rain of New York City. The scene begins Salim kept waiting in an office wearing an ill-fitting suit and a box of trinkets to sell. 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’. Neil Gaiman, who wrote the original novel, said the experience of watching the finished onscreen result was ‘absolute amazement and absolute joy’. Mousa Kraish plays the centuries-old taxi driver and the two connect.Įach episode departs from the main story for a Coming to America segment, showing how other humans interact with these ‘gods’ that walk among them. 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. American Gods has released its third episode today, and with it one of the most explicit gay sex scenes ever shown on television.
