Preacher: El Valero
July 18, 2016 3:45 AM - Season 1, Episode 8 - Subscribe
Quincannon's motives come to light. Jesse comes to acceptance. Annville comes to watch. Donnie gets creative. Tulip makes a heartbreaking choice.
The show is starting to tie some things together and events are being set in motion.
Opening with a particularly gruesome death-by-ski-accident of a family, we learn why Quincannon is particularly angry with God, and why John Custer had to see him in the middle of the night.
Because it's all meat. And now we understand that Quincannon worships the God Of Meat. And in Jesse's guilt-ridden state, that's a particularly funny cherry on top of the day he's having.
Donnie - fixated on Jesse's powers - goes to particular extremes to defend himself on this point - and the bait-and-switch on the show in this scene was masterfully done.
Tulip adopts a new friend, too. Which ends sadly, but it probably answers the "Where's Cassidy?" question from last week, too.
And finally, it seems that Jesse is now angry and guilt-ridden enough to take God to task for recent events. It's not very often that your main deity is held accountable.
The show is starting to tie some things together and events are being set in motion.
Opening with a particularly gruesome death-by-ski-accident of a family, we learn why Quincannon is particularly angry with God, and why John Custer had to see him in the middle of the night.
Because it's all meat. And now we understand that Quincannon worships the God Of Meat. And in Jesse's guilt-ridden state, that's a particularly funny cherry on top of the day he's having.
Donnie - fixated on Jesse's powers - goes to particular extremes to defend himself on this point - and the bait-and-switch on the show in this scene was masterfully done.
Tulip adopts a new friend, too. Which ends sadly, but it probably answers the "Where's Cassidy?" question from last week, too.
And finally, it seems that Jesse is now angry and guilt-ridden enough to take God to task for recent events. It's not very often that your main deity is held accountable.
I meant this to be a show-only thread, but we're starting to get some alignment with the books here. At least, some elements.
I'm actually really enjoying Fiore and DeBlanc, despite Cassidy stealing every single scene he's in.
posted by Thistledown at 1:05 PM on July 18, 2016
I'm actually really enjoying Fiore and DeBlanc, despite Cassidy stealing every single scene he's in.
posted by Thistledown at 1:05 PM on July 18, 2016
For me it's still a trudge that I hope turns into something. This particular episode felt wildly padded and Jesse continuing to be a real ass. Tulip continues to be my favorite, but she didn't have much this time around.
Love the angels, hope they stick around. Quincannon needs to go.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:01 PM on July 18, 2016
Love the angels, hope they stick around. Quincannon needs to go.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:01 PM on July 18, 2016
I have to say Clive, running up there with a bayonet chanting "food court" only to retreat with his dick shot off was pretty great. I am still laughing about it.
posted by selenized at 7:52 PM on July 18, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by selenized at 7:52 PM on July 18, 2016 [1 favorite]
For me it's still a trudge that I hope turns into something. This particular episode felt wildly padded and Jesse continuing to be a real ass. Tulip continues to be my favorite, but she didn't have much this time around.
Love the angels, hope they stick around. Quincannon needs to go.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:01 PM on July 18 [+] [!]
He's central to the story, though. At least the first season. Depends on if this turns into a road show, which I'm sort of hoping it does.
posted by Thistledown at 3:13 AM on July 19, 2016 [1 favorite]
Love the angels, hope they stick around. Quincannon needs to go.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:01 PM on July 18 [+] [!]
He's central to the story, though. At least the first season. Depends on if this turns into a road show, which I'm sort of hoping it does.
posted by Thistledown at 3:13 AM on July 19, 2016 [1 favorite]
It *has* to turn into a road show because that town is too small to have material for an entire season, let alone an ongoing series.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:19 AM on July 19, 2016
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:19 AM on July 19, 2016
"God of Meat" sounds like it should be the name of some alternative rock band.
posted by Roger Pittman at 7:35 AM on July 19, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Roger Pittman at 7:35 AM on July 19, 2016 [1 favorite]
It really does need to turn into a road show to maintain my interest, but I'm of the opinion they're headed that way. They even threw in a meta joke a few weeks back with Cassidy telling Jesse something along the lines of "this is all leadin' to a road trip, man, ye have to see that!"
posted by Gaz Errant at 3:01 PM on July 19, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Gaz Errant at 3:01 PM on July 19, 2016 [1 favorite]
I had some reservations at the start of the season, but this is rapidly becoming my favourite show. I'm glad they got a second season.
This is very much where I'm at. I wasn't sure about this during the pilot due to the obviously dodgy connection to the source material and uncertainty about what, (if anything), they were doing, but I've come to adore the whole thing. Even when it's wrong, it's not afraid to be its own thing, and I really appreciate that.
Some stuff:
* Tulip's day with the dog, only to feed that dog to a (presumably grievously injured) Cassidy was absolutely heartbreaking. Reminded me of nothing so much as a particularly great suicide near the midpoint if Battlestar Galactica. I also love how low-key that bit of assholery on Jesse's part was played.
* This exchange killed me, even if it later turned out to be a figment of Jesse's imagination:
Jesse: You clawed your way out of Hell with your bare hands?
Eugene: It's not so far.
Jesse: What's it like?
Eugene: Crowded.
* Odin Quincannon was fantastic, this go. His rousing speech about how, "I don't want to say you'll be human shields, but you will be functioning in a shield-like capacity" was so, so great. (I really like Odin as the arc villain for right now. He's not sustainable long term, but he's a great S1 problem.)
... so yeah, really looking forward to the next one.
posted by mordax at 12:15 AM on July 20, 2016 [6 favorites]
This is very much where I'm at. I wasn't sure about this during the pilot due to the obviously dodgy connection to the source material and uncertainty about what, (if anything), they were doing, but I've come to adore the whole thing. Even when it's wrong, it's not afraid to be its own thing, and I really appreciate that.
Some stuff:
* Tulip's day with the dog, only to feed that dog to a (presumably grievously injured) Cassidy was absolutely heartbreaking. Reminded me of nothing so much as a particularly great suicide near the midpoint if Battlestar Galactica. I also love how low-key that bit of assholery on Jesse's part was played.
* This exchange killed me, even if it later turned out to be a figment of Jesse's imagination:
Jesse: You clawed your way out of Hell with your bare hands?
Eugene: It's not so far.
Jesse: What's it like?
Eugene: Crowded.
* Odin Quincannon was fantastic, this go. His rousing speech about how, "I don't want to say you'll be human shields, but you will be functioning in a shield-like capacity" was so, so great. (I really like Odin as the arc villain for right now. He's not sustainable long term, but he's a great S1 problem.)
... so yeah, really looking forward to the next one.
posted by mordax at 12:15 AM on July 20, 2016 [6 favorites]
I LOVED the Quincannon battle speech. I couldn't stop laughing.
Jackie Earle Haley has impressed the crap out of me lately. He had a great turn on a short-run TV show called "Eyes" (which was excellent, and cancelled) and I thought he was fantastic as Rorschach in Watchmen.
The man has far more range than I ever gave him credit for, shame on me.
posted by Thistledown at 1:24 PM on July 20, 2016 [3 favorites]
Jackie Earle Haley has impressed the crap out of me lately. He had a great turn on a short-run TV show called "Eyes" (which was excellent, and cancelled) and I thought he was fantastic as Rorschach in Watchmen.
The man has far more range than I ever gave him credit for, shame on me.
posted by Thistledown at 1:24 PM on July 20, 2016 [3 favorites]
It was a pretty fun episode. The entirety of the conversation about Hell between Imaginary Eugene (something which managed to trick me until the reveal) and Jesse was a nice insight into how Jesse understood Hell to be. Not far from our world, crowded, and a place where 'they' like to trick you into thinking everything is going to be all right - that final thing being pretty relevant to Jesse's situation.
That poor dog.
Incidentally, I was also thrown off when Donnie went to his car trunk to blow up his ear drums. It was a nice touch that he removed his Confederate uniform (the loser's uniform) to find a way to "beat" Jesse.
Jackie Earle Haley has impressed the crap out of me lately. He had a great turn on a short-run TV show called "Eyes" (which was excellent, and cancelled) and I thought he was fantastic as Rorschach in Watchmen.
He was also fun on a short lived Fox series, The Protector.
posted by Atreides at 8:13 AM on July 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
That poor dog.
Incidentally, I was also thrown off when Donnie went to his car trunk to blow up his ear drums. It was a nice touch that he removed his Confederate uniform (the loser's uniform) to find a way to "beat" Jesse.
Jackie Earle Haley has impressed the crap out of me lately. He had a great turn on a short-run TV show called "Eyes" (which was excellent, and cancelled) and I thought he was fantastic as Rorschach in Watchmen.
He was also fun on a short lived Fox series, The Protector.
posted by Atreides at 8:13 AM on July 21, 2016 [2 favorites]
Tulip has, as of this episode, become officially Canonical Tulip for me. Way better than the original.
posted by corb at 1:04 AM on September 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by corb at 1:04 AM on September 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
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