As I sat down to watch Preacher episode 10, the season finale, I prepared myself for a cliffhanger. Well, we certainly got one. Even though this episode probably raised more questions than it answered, I really, really enjoyed it.
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.
It’s nice to know that even a twisted voodoo she-devil like Gran’Ma has nightmares. That’s where we start this episode – Angelville’s matriarch is dreaming that she meets her end thanks to Jesse and Tulip, and she is having NONE of it.
Totally kicking myself for these now. Five fandoms I didn’t think I would love (and am now completely obsessed with).
First and foremost, Preacher episode 7 is called “Hilter,” NOT “Hitler.” Secondly, it’s kind of a bait-and-switch of an episode title, because we get about 5 minutes of the Fuhrer and then he disappears again (reluctantly) with the Saint and Eugene.
Since I binge watch basically everything, I’m very used to skipping past the first thirty seconds of every show so I don’t have to watch show intros a million times.
But, there are a select few shows with an intro so good I just can’t skip it. These are their stories.
Episode 4 picks up right where Episode 3 left off – with Luke getting his ass handed to him by Bushmaster. After coming to and finding a group of (former?) fans standing over him, Luke heads back to the barber shop; when Bobby sees Luke in such a state and asks if he should call Claire, Luke says no. It cannot be good that there is a person who can successfully attack Luke AND that Claire is no longer around to patch Luke up – physically AND emotionally.
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.