Review I Preacher – The Possibilities

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Apologies for the tardiness of this, I was sick, but lo I am healed (without the use of The Word or needing to eat a cow) and ready to go with this week’s Preacher review.

Things are starting to come together, and the slow burn that I mentioned last week, in regards to initial elements from the comics, seems to be continuing.

Deblanc and Fiore are back and meet with Sherrif Root about their impending mission, something which seems to involve a small arsenal.

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Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Tom Brooke as Fiore – Preacher Season 1, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC

They end up back at the church where Cassidy is rather surprised to see them again since he dismembered them and buried them in a box last week. They explain that they aren’t after him, they want what is in Jesse, and they’ve been sent from Heaven to get it back.

Tulip exchanges the map she was last seen poring over for a piece of paper with the last known whereabouts of someone named Carlos. Carlos is someone from her past with Jesse, a loose end significant enough for him to finally succumb to her schemes and join her to take this guy down.

In one of the funnier, more irreverent scenes this week, the coma patient Jesse commanded to open her eyes last week has done so, and is now the puppet of her obnoxious, selfie taking brother while her poor mother has a crisis of faith.

Donnie Schenk, he of the bunny in a trap noise, tries to explain his complicated relationship with his wife to their son on the way to the school bus, when he arrives at the bus all of the children call him bunny man. Meanwhile the driver Jesse whammied with The Word last week can’t even remember the young girl he had been having inappropriate feelings for.

Jesse certainly has had an impact on the people of Annville, not a good one, but by no means as, um, explosive as what happened in the comics.

Definitely the most fun moment this week had to be Jesse and Cass trying to figure out how Jesse had gotten his power, the triple threat of references to Phenomenon, the Bourne movies and Star Wars was just hilarious. I thought I laughed loudly when Cass mentioned John Travolta but when he suggested Jesse was a Jedi I nearly fell off my chair! Jesse testing out the word on Cass was also pretty hilarious.

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Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy – Preacher Season 1, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC

The biggest OMG YES moment this week had to be Danni, the woman Tulip gave the map to, handing it over to her superior, a bald, white suited man who was taking great delight in viewing an entry in the local snuff movie festival. I may have leapt in the air yelling HERR STARR!

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Julie Dretzin as Dany, Morse Bicknell as Man in White Suit – Preacher Season 1, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC

So we’ve got Deblanc and Fiore on the verge of fessing up and telling Cass what they are and what they are actually looking for, hints at Grail Industries tied to a bald guy in a white suit who MUST be Herr Starr (right? RIGHT?!) and Jesse flexing The Word now he acknowledges what’s going on, couple that with the Saint of Killers being introduced last week and things are starting to pick up towards an inevitably bloody conclusion to this initial season.

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Clare Hemsworth

Hey, I'm Clare, aka Ciara or C. My current fandoms are RWBY and The Last Kingdom along with a bunch of other stuff I tend to let build up and then binge! I'm a keen, albeit amateur, cosplayer and love attending cons in various cosplays. I'm also the resident comic book girl around these parts, especially small press comics, so if you've got an indie book you want reviewed, I'm your gal! When I'm not doing the fangirl thing I am a keen long-distance hiker, having completed Te Araroa in New Zealand and The Pacific Crest Trail on the West Coast of the US.