SummaryTexas preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) go on a journey to find God in this drama based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
SummaryTexas preacher Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) go on a journey to find God in this drama based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
Pulling it all together is the cast. Cooper is fierce and weathered, Negga is spunky smart and Gilgun is just a joy to watch and hear, with that thick Irish accent of his.
This show is messed up. I don't know why I'm watching it, the actors don't know why they are playing in it and the director... he is somewhere lost, maybe in Costa Rica drinking tequila with his dog running around with I don't know, I haven't been to Costa Rica! So there is this guy, Jesse, and he... do stuff. Oh, and he is a preacher. But hey, no, his father was a preacher. Do you even have to study to be a preacher? Do preachers need some certificates? I don't know, actor playing Jesse doesn't know and director... Yes, who the hell know what's inside his head. And this guys Jesse is doing stuff and it's awesome. Just watch this show. It's weird, and interesting, there is action, and there are... I don't know, problems? Yes, problems and they are solving them with odd solutions. It's odd little show with weird mood but you will love it.
It'd be easy for Preacher to operate as a cut-and-dried adaptation; the comic is vibrant, with an incredibly specific tone and complicated backstory. But in reimagining it for television, AMC dug a little deeper, and came up with something more satisfying and complex.
It has a chance to crossbreed the better angels of character drama with devilish genre splatter. Within its oversize color panels there’s some hard-boiled philosophy about trying to be good in a world of sin. And there’s little on TV quite like its fallen world.
Like many shows these days, Preacher is not for everyone, nor is it trying to be. But it will almost certainly work for some viewers, and it seems to have a good idea of who those viewers are and what they want.
By the end of the fourth episode, the plot starts to show slight signs of life, but there’s nothing to indicate that the show will capture the energy and creativity of the source material that should set it apart.
Fargo-style meets Pulp Fiction-style; This show is hilarious! It's witty, it's well written, the characters are fantastic!
The story and characters build through-out with meaningful purpose; very entertaining. Didn't read the comic, and didnt even know it existed, but had a great time with this series.
Preacher is largely a cool show with a unique premise and characters. But, Preacher's first episode is really what set the rest of the season up for disappointment. The pilot is really good. Actually too good. Problem is, the first episode delivers these amazing character introductions, full of amazingly bad-ass stunts, only to dial things down to a simmer and allow its characters to talk ad-nauseam for 9 more episodes to a degree even The Walking Dead could only dream about. There is no sense of pacing. There's no sense of urgency. The mood is completely manic- sometimes overly serious, sometimes darkly comic. I expected for some character to stop at any moment and ask "Wait, didn't we used to be completely badass?" and let the ass-kicking commence. Sadly, far too few of these moments were to be had. Having said that, season 1 really only lays the groundwork for what sounds like a far more focused season 2. And when season 2 is released, I will definitely be there.
The first 7 episodes of this show were outstanding, then it fell into what, after writing up so many reviews these past couple years, i'm going to call the season fluff, and fell off dramatically in the last 3 episodes. When you're making a TV show it seems there's some core story, but often times, that core story, and the way they're telling it, simply can't be stretched out, so they put filler in, it's happened over & over, I really dig a show, then the filler subplots ruin it for me, the last 3 eps were just about unwatchable. This gets a 6.
Preacher is a boring, uninspired series that goes nowhere. Within fifteen minutes I completely lost interest in what was happening, and went off to look for something else to do. I kept the show running in the background and discovered it was a show where you didn't have to watch it to know what was going on. This is never a good sign. I haven't gone back to watch further episodes.
Four episodes out of six into the first season and I am wondering if anything is going to happen. Stylish ass-kicking does not in itself constitute a plot. The dialog is stilted and cliched; the acting shallow and ropey, and the characters are little more than types (man in black with a past, feisty ex-girlfriend, comedy side-kick, impassive nemeses). Whole scenes go by in which nothing is said that matters and the plot doesn't move. I have a feeling that this must just be 'True Blood' for straight men. We're just gonna hang around this small town getting to know boring people and solving their little life-problems forever. And the sign outside the church is getting old already. I'm bored.