Preacher‘s second episode does not slow down; there is literally a speedballing angel and vampire involved.
- This episode is as on point and as sharp and dark as Ganesh’s eyeliner, y’all.
- Mild Spoilers ahead.
Preacher Season 2X02 finds the trio of Jesse (Dominic Cooper), Tulip (Ruth Negga), and vampire Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) heading to a casino after a bloody shootout with The Saint of Killers (Graham McTavish), along with a dozen or so members of a gun convention at the same hotel where they are staying.
Old Tyme Axle Grease didn’t lube the Saint of Killer’s(Graham McTavish) guns, but the truck slid right off of him.
Photo credit: Skip Bolen/ AMC/Sony
This is where Tulip finally sees on a hotel television that Annville, and her uncle Walter, are gone.
After the shootout(ginger ale stops blood loss, Cassidy quips to a bleeding man), the trio stop at a gas station, and Cassidy’s memory is jogged about the commercial he had seen the night before. The group is heading to a casino to meet an old friend.
Ganesh
We finally see what happened to Fiore (Tom Brooke) after the death of DeBlanc. He is stuck on earth and alone.
Eating apples makes you look like an asshole, Ganesh/Fiore(TomBrooke)
Photo credit: AMC
Ganesh/Fiore gets a horrifyingly funny flashback about his life after hiring the Saint of Killers and how he came to be Ganesh, the stage magician that cannot die.
He tells Cassidy and Jesse that he doesn’t care about anything, even God gone missing, and he refuses to call off The Saint.
Cassidy tells Jesse to give him two hours and forty five minutes and he will get Ganesh and The Saint off their backs. Jesse agrees and goes to find a grieving Tulip.
Cassidy’s Plan
Cassidy has a specific skill set that involves drugs, lemon juice, and mineral water. It also involves getting Ganesh sorted out before his six o’clock curtain time. He gets Ganesh high(after a sort of fatal trial), and bonds with him. By bond, I mean Cassidy also does drugs, plays ball with, hot tubs with, and possibly has sex with the miserable angel. It seems to work, and Cassidy goes to find Tulip and Jesse.
A bonding moment with Cassidy(Joseph Gilgun) and Ganesh/Fiore(Tom Brooke)
Photo Credit: Skip Bolen/AMC/Sony
Saying That Will Get You Slapped, Jesse
Jesse has found Tulip, and they have discovered a way to work through her grief. He makes a suggestion she calls stupid, but ultimately goes along with, until she sees an old business partner that she needs to silence without Jesse knowing. Cassidy helps clean up the mess, and they leave. Jesse uses the Word to command Ganesh to find peace, and thinking they are in the clear with the Saint and Ganesh thanks to Cassidy, leave for New Orleans-home of the best jazz in the world.
It’s Not Over, There Ain’t No Fat Lady. Well…It is Finally Over For Someone
We see the Saint of Killers in Ganesh’s dressing room. Ganesh, now sober, makes a new deal with the Saint, and it doesn’t involve leaving Jesse and Genesis alive, or anyone else for that matter.
And we see a familiar, uh, face…
Thoughts
Wow. Just…wow. One of the best episodes of either season.
First and foremost, a big bag of gold stars for Dave Blass. The set design in this episode is definitely award worthy. I’m looking at you, Emmy Board/ATAS. Everything that Blass works on, the sets become interesting characters themselves. The detail is stunning and has that perfectly sumptuous veneer of the casino setting. Have fun looking for Preacher Easter eggs, too!
Fiore/Ganesh has picked up some sass at the cost of his innocence, and the last scene with him may have given me a sniffle.
Where do angels go when they die?
Ruth Negga’s scene as Tulip reminiscing about her Uncle Walter is heartbreaking in it’s sparseness. Tulip is not one for long winded opining, and she captures grief in a few sentences that most actors would need a long soliloquy to do.
Callback to the Cassidy foreskin theory from episode 1, in the grossest way.
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