Last Week’S Review: ‘Preacher’ Brings Us Jesse At His Worst
This Week In Backstories
We finally learn what Odin Quincannon’s deal is this episode, including the full story of John Custer’s visit that was seen from Jesse’s perspective a few episodes back. Turns out the entire Quincannon family, minus Odin, died in a freak ski lift accident, and he didn’t take it very well, In fact, he went completely around the bend, dissected his families corpses, and called John to tell him there is no soul, only meat. John fled as Odin cried, “Denounce him! Denounce him!” So you can maybe see why Odin doesn’t go to church that often.
So why, then, did Jesse’s command to “serve God” not work on Odin? Well, it did, it’s just that Odin’s god is the God of Meat, the god of what’s “touchable and true,...
This Week In Backstories
We finally learn what Odin Quincannon’s deal is this episode, including the full story of John Custer’s visit that was seen from Jesse’s perspective a few episodes back. Turns out the entire Quincannon family, minus Odin, died in a freak ski lift accident, and he didn’t take it very well, In fact, he went completely around the bend, dissected his families corpses, and called John to tell him there is no soul, only meat. John fled as Odin cried, “Denounce him! Denounce him!” So you can maybe see why Odin doesn’t go to church that often.
So why, then, did Jesse’s command to “serve God” not work on Odin? Well, it did, it’s just that Odin’s god is the God of Meat, the god of what’s “touchable and true,...
- 7/18/2016
- by Jeff Stone
- Indiewire
A review of tonight's Preacher coming up just as soon as I think your favorite movie star is Ryan Phillippe... "I didn't mean to. I said the words, and he was gone." -Jesse Now that was more like it. Last week's episode, you may recall, left me frustrated with Jesse's stubborn refusal to move off his plan to save Annville, since the town and its people didn't seem worthy of the show's fuss. "He Gone," though, turned its gaze largely on Jesse himself, filling in a lot of his backstory (and showing how far back he and Tulip go), demonstrating how he's always struggled to balance his good and bad impulses, and also showing just how the combination of his new power, his upbringing, and his general arrogance has made him unable to get off the current path, even after he banished Eugene to Hell. It's a dark place to...
- 7/11/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Last Week’S Review: ‘Preacher’ Builds Its Mysteries In a Low-Key Episode (By Comparison)
In The Beginning
You know the old trope of how when small Texas towns are dominated by a single business, that business lets its employees hunt down prostitutes with paintball guns in the dead of night? We open with that classic scenario, as the Quincannon men chase down and corner a girl named Lacey. She gives up, but Clive, the guy Tulip beat at cards last episode, shoots her anyway. She takes a step back and vanishes into a sinkhole. Just another typical night in Annville!
Tulip Does Cool Stuff
Despite the rather out-there beginning, this is a pretty sedate episode, but Tulip does get a chance to raise some hell. After Lacey’s dead body has to be pulled out of the hole by a crane, Odin Quincannon, ever the picture of tact, takes a...
In The Beginning
You know the old trope of how when small Texas towns are dominated by a single business, that business lets its employees hunt down prostitutes with paintball guns in the dead of night? We open with that classic scenario, as the Quincannon men chase down and corner a girl named Lacey. She gives up, but Clive, the guy Tulip beat at cards last episode, shoots her anyway. She takes a step back and vanishes into a sinkhole. Just another typical night in Annville!
Tulip Does Cool Stuff
Despite the rather out-there beginning, this is a pretty sedate episode, but Tulip does get a chance to raise some hell. After Lacey’s dead body has to be pulled out of the hole by a crane, Odin Quincannon, ever the picture of tact, takes a...
- 6/20/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
A quick review of tonight's Preacher coming up just as soon as I have a direct line to Heaven... "Some people just can't be saved." -John Custer "Monster Swamp" was the last of the four episodes AMC sent critics before Preacher debuted, and the one that most felt like an actual episode of television. It gave us more backstory on Jesse and Tulip, focused a lot on the people of the town Jesse is trying (in vain?) to save, explained more about the angels (including the fact that they're down here without permission from their superiors), and moved Odin Quincannon from the margins to the forefront of the action, as Jesse decides to use his new powers to make the town's richest (and perhaps most heinous) man into the church's most passionate advocate. Overall, it's a more successful than last week's episode was at trying to pivot from the...
- 6/20/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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