![]() With the woman sitting comfortably, Anubis casually tears out her heart and weighs it against a feather, as is consistent with established procedure. Again this higher plane is a desert (and again the stars are like those in which Wednesday’s dandelions explode). Thanks to an ostensibly tenuous connection, an Egyptian nanny, the woman is cognisant enough of the ancient belief system of which Anubis was part that he can escort her up an eternal fire escape into the heavens. But no, her stool toppled, she fell to the floor and she died at the age of 68, “not much for America but more than my Kita ever prayed for.” She doesn’t realise she’s dead at this point – she thinks she successfully retrieved a jar from the top shelf of her kitchen. He appears unbidden in the kitchen of a dead woman. The second new old god of the week is Anubis, the ancient Egyptian deity who acted as bouncer to the afterlife. Photograph: Jan Thijs/2017 Starz Entertainment, LLC View image in fullscreen Anubis, the ancient Egyptian deity who acted as bouncer to the afterlife. It may not have been what he wished for, but it might have been what he needed. Salim appropriates them and, wearing the Djinn’s jumper and sunglasses, starts a new life as a cabbie. But when Salim searches the Djinn’s abandoned trousers he finds a driving and a taxi licence in the pocket. During their encounter the fiery one kept insisting that the great preconception about his people, that they grant wishes, is wrong. When Salim wakes the next morning, the Djinn is gone. At the point of climax, the men appear to share Djinn juice after transcending to a literally higher plain a heavenly desert in the sky. The viewer is treated to a slow, lingering scene, with more male genitalia on display (not really a thing but worth mentioning given how rare it is to see on TV, and how keen this show is to buck that convention) and passionate sex between two men who, one might plausibly assume, are not encouraged to pursue their desires in their native culture. ![]() It turns out that even those of the fire have needs that are for men, and the tenderness intimated in Salim’s single touch is explored at length in a downtown hotel room. ![]() View image in fullscreen ‘There are angels’ … Salim. “There are angels,” says Salim by way of explanation, “there are men who Allah made from mud and then there are the people of the fire”. The driver awakes and reveals the fire in his eyes.Īt that point it’s not certain which is a greater revelation between the two men that they are both gay or that one of them is a Djinn. Salim reaches forward to try and wake him, but in a beautiful moment, that waking shrug transforms into a timid caress. He then falls asleep at the wheel as the car sits in traffic. The driver reveals himself to be an Arab, like his ride, and claims to come from Ubar, the “lost city of towers”. This week the man rematerialises as a cab driver in New York, picking up a forlorn salesman called Salim who has just been stiffed at a meeting. Last week we saw Wednesday meeting a mysterious bearded man in a diner – a man with flames where there should have been eyes. Let’s address the second first, because it was the most moving. While Shadow Moon and Wednesday largely meandered this week (of that more later), attention was drawn instead to the introductions of two new old gods in cameos that were both supernatural and human, mysterious and touching. I can survive most things but not that’ … Wednesday. View image in fullscreen ‘The only thing that scares me is being forgotten.
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