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Preacher 03X02: “Sonsabitches”

Preacher Season 3

Preacher 03X02: “Sonsabitches”

  • Shootin’
  • Souls in tubes
  • Goat bullets
  • Umbrella hats
  • Spoilers

The Good ‘Ol(Cringey) Pre-Preacher Days

We see Jesse(Dominic Cooper) as a teen, way before he became the Preacher, smoking on a picnic table as a slightly doughy guy approaches him, needing Gran’Ma’s(Betty Buckley) help. A teen girl has become “obsessed” with him. Take a moment to cringe. Done? Good. For a price, he knows Gran’Ma can make her forget him. Jesse reminds him that the price is high, But the assistant principal, as we find out who he is, cannot afford to let the “obsession” go.

The only problem is that he tries to make a partial payment. He thinks it is no big deal, which is a bad idea.

How Gran’Ma Stays So Young, or At Least Alive

Jesse and the boys chase the errant pervert down, and we find out the price of crossing Gran’Ma. With her, it’s your payment in full, or your soul. She uses a machine to suck out his soul, and sends his living husk to the basement, aka The Tombs. TC(Colin Cunningham) notes that’s how she stays so young.

The Grail Really Must Have One Hella Dry Cleaning Bill

Herr Starr(Pip Torrens) has made a pilgrimage to a guru to get him to acknowledge Humperdoo as the one true God. Of course, The Grail operatives wipe out the guru’s security force first, so he’s not really keen. There was a bloodbath and a nutshot. The guru gives Herr Starr a huge “NO” and is killed. Starr really needs Preacher Jesse.

Shootin’ with Tulip

Tulip(Ruth Negga) is drinking out of, then dispatching beer bottles. Jody(Jeremy Childs) rains on her parade by blowing errthang up, then offers her the gun.

Great for Tulip, not so great for the spying in a Ghillie suit Featherstone(Julie Ann Emery) and Hoover(Malcolm Barrett). They are quickly captured and headed to become consomme, until Jesse sneakily frees them. He needs The Word back, to be the Preacher, to get rid of Gran’Ma and The Grail once and for all. The only way he can do that is to get word to Starr.

There’s More Shootin’

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Shootin’ with Cassidy(Joseph Gilgun) and Tulip(Ruth Negga)!
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A rival bunch of magic users(voodoo, we learn) shoot a goat at(yes, shoot a goat at), then shoot an umbrella hat wearing Cassidy(Joseph Gilgun). He is still trying to drive a wedge between Jesse and Tulip, and Tulip tells him she loves him(not like that, Cassid–oh, you’re going to take it like that? Ok…).

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Placebo Word makes Starr(Pip Torrens) do what he’d do anyway…
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Amidst the commotion, Herr Starr shows up with Jesse’s soul. Jesse immediately tries to use The Word on Starr, and finds out it is a placebo. To get the real thing, he has to go to the car with Starr and–oops! Tulip shoots at him, and the deal is off. Jesse comforts her, telling her it wasn’t her fault.

Jesse the Janitor

Later, we see Jesse go down to a basement labeled The Tombs, and he has cleanup duty. The perv from Jesse’s youth is there, still looking the same way he did all those years ago. He asks for Jesse’s help, but Jesse replies he can’t.

Thoughts on Preacher 3X02

Cassidy is really pouring on the Jesse hate. It seems pretty obvious he is going to have Gran’Ma pay her debt to him by making the same draught for Tulip that she once made for herself.

Goat shooting.

I loved the gun talk, as it would be something Tulip would talk about with a stranger.

The Grail in Ghillie suits was fun!

The consomme bit was hilarious. Tulip was the least amused.

I always wondered why Cassidy didn’t get an umbrella hat.

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