Welcome back to Anville for this week’s Preacher review
Buckle your seatbelts folks cos this one is a bit mental.
Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Tom Brooke as Fiore, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc.
Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC
Preacher this week kicked off with the LONG awaited (for me anyway) explanation of exactly what is cohabiting in Jesse’s brain (in a speech taken almost verbatim from the comics if I recall). Called Genesis, it’s the offspring of the illicit union of a Demon and an Angel and considered something of a political screw up by those in heaven. DeBlanc and Fiore just want to take it home quietly so that no-one else is the wiser and before anyone else comes looking for it.
Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Juliana Potter as Susan.
Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC
Sadly they are a bit late and what begins with Fiore whispering ‘Seraphim’ turns into one of the most bonkers fight scenes I have witnessed in quite some time.
As you may recall from when Cassidy ran our hapless angels over a few weeks back, these heavenly bodies basically respawn when they die, albeit leaving a messy corpse behind.
Tom Brooke as Fiore, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer.
Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC
With 3 involved in the fight, one motel room very quickly fills up with brutalised angel corpses until finally Fiore incapacitates the Serpahim with his trusty chainsaw. See, they have to die to respawn…so just maiming her keeps her out of the way and not hell bent (heaven sent… I dunno) on destroying Jesse!
After the epic fight Jesse and Cassidy head back to the church to do some laundry as they are a little rumpled. I do apologise if I go a little off track here but I am human, and a red blooded female at that, and the sight of Dominic Cooper and Joseph Gilgun in their underwear for a considerable period of time was more than a little distracting.
Credit: comicbook.com
Cassidy enquires about a tattoo on Jesse’s back and he replies that a mean old lady gave it to him. Wait… holy… was that just a reference to Marie L’Angelle, Jesse’s evil grandmother from the comics? *dances*
Tulip goes to see Emily to warn her to stay away from her “boyfriend”. The pair end up bonding after a fashion and Tulip takes over Emily’s church errands so Emily can look after her sick daughter. Of course this brings her to the church and into contact with both Jesse and Cassidy, the latter assumes she is there for him until he realises she is Jesse’s Tulip… the subject of the other tattoo he has. Things are not going well for our poor vampire friend and I have a feeling they are only going to get worse.
The other big plot thread this week involves everyone’s favourite failed suicide attemptee – Arseface! He’s back at school and everyone seems to be fine with him now. Something that makes him decidedly uncomfortable.
Ian Colletti as Arseface, Jack Justice as Scott’s Friend #1, Riley Carson Lewis as Scott’s Friend #2.
Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC
After some other boys actually include him in their after school plans he goes to see Jesse to ask him to undo whatever he did before because he feels like he’s cheating. This pisses Jesse off and despite repeated warnings, pleadings and orders not to use Genesis he does exactly that as he tells Arseface to go to hell…
Right, Jesse Custer, I don’t care how much of a badass you are, you had better fix this or I’m coming down there to kick your ass myself. Ian Colletti’s Arseface/Eugene is one of the best adaptations of a comic character I have seen in some time. Wonderfully endearing, he does not deserve to be in hell. So fix it. NOW!
So this week we’ve had comic hints, straight up passages of text and Jesse using his power WAY more than is probably healthy and we’re left in a spot where I’m not entirely sure what’s coming down the line next. But things are definitely heating up down in Anville, TX so here’s to next week!
