You may remember that I wrote recaps of the first five episodes of the second season of Luke Cage. Unfortunately, I just couldn’t bring myself to go any further than that (with recapping – I watched the season through to the end).
Ah, depositions – the key to any exciting scene, amiright? Yeah, no. I mean, I’m happy to see Foggy (Elden Henson), but no lawyer can keep Luke from being Luke – so when Cockroach starts BS-ing and the big man loses his temper and busts up the conference room table, Foggy 1) asks Luke if he’s ever considered wearing a mask (funny), and 2) tells Luke that he may want to consider a settlement. But where is Luke going to get $100K, the amount necessary to make the whole lawsuit go away?
After calling some of the companies who were previously interested in a Luke Cage endorsement (BEFORE he got his butt whooped by Bushmaster, of course), he realizes that he might need to cash in on some of his superhero fame. Foggy says he has an appearance opportunity for him – it turns out it’s Piranha, Mariah’s money man, who is more than willing to pay big bucks to get Luke to attend one of his parties.
I was watching Younger the other day (SPOILER ALERT – since I haven’t been doing full recaps, the key things you need to know are that Kelsey was sleeping with two guys, Charles stopped being a jerk, Josh is still in love with Liza, and Diana is still the queen of everything), and I was really enjoying a scene between Sutton Foster and guest star Christian Borle.
In addition to thinking how weird it must be to film smoochy scenes with your ex (they used to be married!), I was appreciating that I was watching two Broadway POWERHOUSES in a show on TV Land. Sutton Foster, of course, received two Tony awards (for Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes) before starring in Bunheads (man, I miss that show) and then moving onto Younger, and Christian Borle was the original Emmett in Legally Blonde the musical (he then starred in Smash, which I still maintain was underappreciated).
It got me thinking – a LOT of my favorite TV and movie actors got their start in the theater. Such as . . .
If you are squeamish and don’t like the sight of blood and guts (however fake) on your TV or movie screen, you probably didn’t love much of Preacher episode 9. I was right there with you. While we made some progress on a few plot points, I felt disappointed at the end of this one.
When I saw the episode title and teaser for this episode of Preacher, I wasn’t super thrilled. The parts of the comic that dealt with Les Enfents du Sang were some of my least favorites of the whole series, and the television version of events hasn’t done anything to change my mind. But, it’s part of the story whether I like it or not, so I guess I should just get to it.
I asked my husband the other night how he was feeling about this season of Preacher, since he’s an even more devoted fan of the comic books than I am (he got me to read them in the first place). He thought for a second and then said, “I feel like the episodes keep getting better.” I tend to agree, and I think it’s because this season is tracking the original material much more closely than in the previous two.
We pick up Luke Cage episode 3 where episode 2 left off – with Luke in Cockroach’s apartment, and with Cockroach bloodied and unconscious.
Four episodes into this season of Preacher, and we haven’t spent a whole lot of time outside of Angelville. Even though we get to visit Hell for a bit in “The Tombs,” Jesse and crew still haven’t figured out how to leave his family’s estate – and just about everyone seems the worse for it (with the possible exception of Tulip, who – let’s face it – is always awesome, geography be damned).
Family and community are big themes in Luke Cage, and episode two dives a little deeper into that territory. But first – let’s have some fun with cameos! Luke draws a crowd, including ESPN’s Jemele Hill and Michael Smith, when he does a combine-esque demonstration of his athletic abilities. He takes selfies, and Bobby seems to appoint himself as Luke’s manager, taking business cards from companies who might want Luke to rep them. Hey, a man’s gotta eat.
When Preacher opens in black and white, I always get excited – I love the flashbacks because they fill in so many interesting details about our main characters and the events that shaped their lives. In this episode, we see a teenaged Jesse hustling a vice-principal, the latter of whom has realized that his relations with one of his students could derail his career. He wants Gran’ma to cast a spell to make the girl forget about him, and he assures Jesse that he’ll pay up. Fast forward a bit, and the VP is thrilled with the results – but he’s short on his payment. Jesse lets him know that is a BIG problem, but he doesn’t seem to get it, until he is chased by Jody and T.C. in a truck, then beaten and brought to Gran’ma’s house. A machine is wheeled in that will extract the delinquent client’s soul, and Jesse starts to leave the room – but Gran’ma says it’s about time he saw the process. We don’t see it, but we hear it. It sounds like it hurts. A lot.