American Gods: Old Gods! New Faces! Reacquaint Yourself With Shadow, Wednesday & Co. Ahead Of Season 3

Nearly two years may be but a celestial blip — after all, what is time to a deity? — but by human measure, it's been a long time since American Gods graced our TV screens.

So before the Starz series returns for Season 3 on Sunday (8/7c), we thought we — with the help of cast members Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki and Lela Loren — would refresh your memory regarding exactly what the members of the God Squad were up to the last time we met.

The list below gives you a quick refresher on the Season 2 finale (though you can always go here for a more detailed recap). So if you can't exactly recall what became of Bilquis, or where Mr. Wednesday ended up, or how things shook out for Salim & The Jinn, no worries! Your prayers have been answered.

We've also included some info on some new characters entering the existential fray in Season 3, from a no-nonsense Wisconsinite to the older-than-old gods who suddenly take great interest in Shadow for reasons not yet known. (And if you've read Neil Gaiman's novel on which the show is based, you're in for some surprises.)

Scroll through the photos below to get caught up, then hit the comments with your thoughts: What do you hope to see happen in this season of American Gods? 

LAST SEEN: Reeling from the news that Mr. Wednesday, aka the Norse god Odin, is his father; fleeing Cairo after Mr. World convinced everyone he was responsible for a massacre; finding a card identifying him as "Mike Ainsel" in his wallet, which helped him evade police

IN SEASON 3...: Shadow kicks off the new season "in hiding. He's grown his hair out. He's grown his beard out," says Ricky Whittle. "He's hiding from the FBI, the police, the authorities, but he's also hiding from Wednesday and the gods. He's done with that world." But that world is far from done with Shadow, as Wednesday's frequent interruptions into his son's new life attest. "Shadow has realized that Wednesday needs Shadow more than Shadow needs Wednesday," Whittle previews. "But in true American Gods fashion, there's only so long you can outrun your destiny in this story until it finds out. And along with destiny comes Mr. Wednesday, and that's just a problem that's not going to go away."

LAST SEEN: Getting named as one of Shadow's co-conspirators in the "Bellefontaine massacre," courtesy of Mr. World; sitting in a restaurant and noting with affection that "my boy's gonna be just fine"

IN SEASON 3...: Ol' Odin himself has got a new wardrobe, a new ride and a new "girl Friday" in the character of Cordelia, Ian McShane previews. (More on that later.) "Of course, you don't think anything's by accident. So she might not know it, but she's not exactly an ordinary person, you know what I mean?" While Shadow spends much of the start of the season in idyllic Lakeside, Wisc., expect Wednesday to continue his cross-country jaunt to rally troops in his building war against the New Gods.

LAST SEEN: Stripping down and kissing Shadow in the Cairo funeral home, and telling him that their fortunes were linked

IN SEASON 3...: Life is not very lovely for the goddess of love in the season premiere, Yetide Badaki tells TVLine. "Where we see Bilquis start off, you definitely see the walls closing on her, people coming in to collect on debts that they believe she owes," she says, hinting at a storyline that brings one of the old gods into her swank new digs — with brutal consequences. "You're seeing a lot of the labels others want to put on her, and expectations," Badaki adds. "She is feeling the need to break free."

LAST SEEN: Getting resurrected by the Xie Comm CEO and transferring a ton of digital information to Mr. World, making it possible for the New Gods to convince a panicked America that it is under attack

IN SEASON 3...: Tech Boy may have gotten rebooted, but don't expect that to wipe all the bugs from his system. The new episodes are "the first time, in a real, detailed sense, we get to see Tech Boy really off his game," Bruce Langley says. Without giving away exactly how it happens, "We get to see him without access to a lot of his toys. We get to see him without his backup. And we get to see when, by virtue of necessity, he has to make alliances with people he normally wouldn't look twice at."

LAST SEEN: Messing with America at large and Shadow Moon in particular by causing a panic that led to runs on banks, upsets in the supply chain and a police manhunt for Wednesday's kid

IN SEASON 3...: As previously reported, several actors — including American Gods newbies Dominique Jackson (Pose) and Danny Trejo (The Flash) — will portray the New God, who's previously shown up in only one form (played by Crispin Glover). "There are multiple versions of World that I get to play with this season, and they've all pretty much done it their own way. Dominique most definitely brings her own energy to it," Langley says, chuckling. "After our introductory scene, there isn't any question of who's in charge."

LAST SEEN: Vowing to kill Mr. Wednesday, carrying Mad Sweeney's dead body down the road

IN SEASON 3...: Laura starts off by trying to make things right with one character (things go awry), then having a bit of an awakening (wherein things also go awry), and that's when her storyline gets very interesting.

LAST SEEN: Leaving Cairo with The Jinn

IN SEASON 3...: You probably already know that Mousa Kraish isn't returning this season, so it shouldn't be a huge surprise to know that Salim's heart is broken by The Jinn's absence at the start of the season. (Sniff!) But the break-up will give Salim an opportunity to explore his budding sexuality, and that's a good thing, right?

IN SEASON 3...: Power player Lela Loren shows up as Shadow's neighbor in Lakeside, Wisc. And if you thought the weather was chilly in his new town, wait until you see their first interaction. "Marguerite is very guarded," Loren tells TVLine. "They kind of get off on the wrong foot." But when things thaw a bit between the two, the pair get to know each other (perhaps very well, as the Season 3 trailer hints). "The really hilarious thing with Shadow is, seeing crazy beheadings and murders and all of that stuff is old hat for him. But walking in the snow and having a hot chocolate, that's out of Shadow's comfort zone," Loren says, laughing. "So this small-town, pedestrian nature of Lakeside, the Hallmark movie version of Lakeside, is exotic for him."

IN SEASON 3...: The Greek goddess of the harvest (who's played by Will & Grace's Blythe Danner) is a former love of Wednesday's... who is now residing at a psychiatric facility.

IN SEASON 3...: These divine beings from the Yoruba tradition will figure into Shadow's life this season, as he undergoes a different kind of spiritual awakening than we've seen in the past. Herizen Guardiola (Dare Me), pictured here, plays Oshun, the goddess of all that is beautiful and sweet — but don't cross her. Rapper Wale plays Chango, who wields two axes and has a warrior's spirit.

IN SEASON 3...: A college dropout with a lot of debt to her name, Cordelia (played by Ashley Reyes, Broadway's The Play That Goes Wrong) shows up as Mr. Wednesday's right-hand woman/tech whiz. But how much does the character actually know about what the old guy is up to?

IN SEASON 3...: In a change from Neil Gaiman's book, the unofficial mayor of Shadow's new town is female. Played by Saturday Night Live vet Julia Sweeney, Hinzelmann is gregarious and highly interested in showing Shadow the best of her tight-knit community. And if you haven't read the novel, well, that's all we'll say about that.