Warning! This review is full of spoilers.###If you’ve never read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, or possess’own’nurse chosen to wipe your mind of all its plot details, then Lemon Scented You offers what might be a much-needed glimpse at the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous -picture hand.###In a cheeky narrative twist, we witness Ian McShane’s wily Mr. Wednesday confessing to a cop in an interrogation room exactly what he’s been up to the previous few episodes — despite’in spite of’albeit it’s intended to make the cop claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate he’s a crazy ol’ kook. But, more significant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative ly, we eventually’ultimately acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure to see the New Gods — Media (Gillian Anderson), Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) and the mysterious Mr. World (Crispin Glover, appearing at last, as primly sinister as ever) — in full in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ce, during a tense and wonderfully surreal parley.###It’s been seeded in previous episodes, but taken toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her with the gorgeous, animated prologue in which we’re told that gods are born “in individual ’s hearts” and die without their faith, it’s now eliminate’remove that Mr. Wednesday — an incarnation of Norse boss-deity Odin — is rallying dwindling old gods to take back power from the things modern culture now ‘worships’. “We occupy their time,” boasts Media. “That’s all you do, is occupy their time. We gave back. We gave them meaning,” retorts Wednesday. Fair point.###Yet in/with regard to’concerning’regarding each thing revealed, it feels like another question is raised (see below). And the pay off to Shadow and Laura’s enormous’vast’massive’tremendous reunion is limp and disappointing; not so much in terms of Shadow’s reaction, but in the way it turned into yet another recap of recent events.###Still, the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ’s skewed humour (“I’m sorry in/with regard to’concerning’regarding lynching you… it was in poor taste”) and distorted-reality atmosphere remain alluringly potent.###Anderson’s pop-culture incarnations are a peculiar joy to behold. In Episode 2 we saw her as Lucille Ball; here we acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure both her David Bowie and a Marilyn Monroe who can knock teeth out with a blown kiss. Plus, when you acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure a scene where a petite revenant sends a hulking leprechaun across a motel room with a flick of the solar plexus, you can merely’barely complain so much…###Who is Mr. World?###Now that is a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous question. One to which we can’t really give a straightin/with regard to’concerning’regarding ward answer. In Gaiman’s novel, he was more of an enin/with regard to’concerning’regarding cer of the New Gods — leader of a group of ‘Men In Black’ types, rather like the agents in The Matrix. But judging by his introduction here, he's been reconceptualised as more of a god himself: Commerce, if you like, or Big Business. But we’ll see… Eventually.###What was that wood monster thing?###Yeah, that stumped us, too. We despite’in spite of’albeit t we might twig by the end of that scene, and figured it might be something to do with Yggdrassil from Norse mythology, but we may possess’own’nurse been barking up the wrong tree. (Sorry.)###Is Mad Sweeney really a leprechaun?###Well, he is intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully keen on acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting his lucky charm back… But in medieval Celtic literature, Mad Sweeney is another name in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Buile Shuibhne, a mythical Irish king who was propel n mad by a curse and became a amble’stroll’bimble’meander’roam er. Though that gold-conjuring trick does make us wonder…