Review: Preacher 3X08: “The Tom/Brady”
- Gran’Ma phones the devil
- Hoover may start sucking
- Sexual harassment class
- Humperdoo goes the way of Tom Cruise-a lot
- Cassidy figures shit out
The Devil Went Down to Angelville
One of these is a hideous creature, the other is the devil.
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Gran’Ma(Betty Buckley) wants Tulip(Ruth Negga) dead. She calls up the devil(Jesse Douglas) with her devil phone, and he comes up to see her. They confab, and since Gran’Ma knows about Genesis, Ol’ Red decides to do a deal. There is no fiddlin’, no gold fiddles, also no devil shamed while setting in that chair right there and seeing how it’s done. He does commission The Angel of Death(Erinn Ruth) to dispatch Tulip tootsweet.
The Old Osaka Sexual Harassment Con
Tulip, Jody(Jeremy Childs), and Featherstone(Julie Ann Emery) get in the soul repository with no problem. Also, Jody gets to kill a bunch of guards, but has to act out a sexual harassment scenario with Tulip to get the keycard. They exit, each with a suitcase, some with a crossword puzzle book and sledgehammer(lookin’ at you, Jody), and they board the plane home.
Humperdon’t
Jesse(Dominic Cooper) successfully shot the All Father(Johnny Coyne), but considering he has a layer of fat that elephant seals would envy, the bullet is ineffective.
Starr and Jesse are ready to either kill All Father or get Genesis sucked out.
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Jesse gets strapped to a Genesis extractor(not available on Amazon) and Genesis is sucked out of him and into Humperdoo(Tyson Ritter), who promptly explodes. Then the Grail brings in…yet another Humperdoo. He is injected with a good/evil serum to match Jesse’s level of averaging out, and it doesn’t work. Lather and rinse down the room, repeat. Until…the Tom/Brady mix-a blend of Thomas Jefferson and Wayne Brady. Okie dokie. Anyway, it works, and All Father yells to bring out the real Savior.
Cassidy Snoops
Cassidy(Joseph Gilgun) puts two and two together
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Poor Hoover(Malcolm Barrett) can’t catch a break. Cassidy(Joseph Gilgun) and Eccarius(Adam Croasdell) capture Hoover. He is given the choice to be killed or turned. Herr Starr(Pip Torrens) really didn’t care either way. They discuss bee cages(from the godawful remake of The Wicker Man) but Hoover chooses to be turned because he loves his mother.
Hoover is sent up to the garage with Eccarius and is about to become another Lisa(Lucy Faust) from last week, but thanks to Cassidy’s snooping, he figures out what’s up. He confronts Eccarius, and in the very brief struggle, Hoover gets away.
The Hell Bus
Featherstone insults Tulip, and because of this, she gets even by telling what she thinks is a cop that Featherstone is Tulip. It’s The Angel of Death, and Featherstone is taken to catch the hell bus along with Hitler(Noah Taylor), The Saint of Killers(Graham McTavish, and Eugene(Ian Colletti). Too late, Jody tells Tulip who the cop really was, and that the devil has ordered her death. Even more noteworthy, the suitcases were switched, and Featherstone has the souls. Hitler borrows Featherstone’s phone and makes a call…
Thoughts on Tom/Brady
We have a potential vampire beekeeper, much to Cassidy’s surprise.
Eccarius can’t think up a new speech? Don’t phone it in, Eccarius.
Hoover tries so hard! I hope he doesn’t die. He is the Pollyanna of Preacher. Don’t let Herr Starr’s indifference bring you down.
Gran’Ma can hold her own with the devil. Love how she greets him.
The sexual harassment seminar was grade A.
I want to punch Eccarius because of the ease in which he dispatches Cassidy.
The fact that the Grail cleans up the testing room after every Humperdoo explosion, though.
Who is the “real” messiah?
HOW COULD JESSE GET THE GUN IF HIS HANDS ARE BOUND, STARR?
With only two episodes left, it only gets crazier from here. Be sure to live tweet Preacher with us @FandemoniumNet 10 pm Sundays on AMC!
