Preacher (TV Series) The End of the Road (2017) User Reviews

Tales from hell and earth!

[Reno-Rangan · 8/10 · 4 February 2018]

SEASON 02:

It was like last week I saw season 1, good to see the proceeding. Yeah, the story moves on, but it was totally different than the first. The initial setup was a road trip, then in the middle of the season, it settled down where the remaining story took place.

After knowing the god is missing, Jesse the preacher along with his two friends embark to find him in various places. They come close yet unreachable. Besides, they go through a lot. A lot of obstacles, particularly the Saint of Killers was the most interesting aspect. Then there's an old man who adds the other interesting fact. Don't believe how he had ended, because they did not show that shot properly. So expect a surprise in the follow up.

On the other side of the tale, there's hell. Eugene, who has been stuck in the hell reveals his side of the struggle. He meets the most recognised historical figure. I mean in the hell, who could be it. I thought this perspective was unnecessary, but it made sense as the overall season was unfolded, Especially when it had ended, it left a big clue what might come in the next season. That would be a great clash, can't wait for it.

On paper, this season's basic plot seems silly, but they have turned it awesomely. Not as good as the first, yet still enjoyable. There were many surprises, that keeps the viewers hooked, episode after episode. Those who like Tulip might not be happy how the season had ended, particularly for her, but who know what might come in the next. So finger crossed and looking forward to it.

7/10.

They make you pull for Hitler (at least for a moment).

[fredschaefer-406-623204 · 8/10 · 11 September 2017]

After a season that spent most of its time on the streets of New Orleans, the second season of AMC's PREACER really kicked things into high gear in the finale, "The End of the Road." For most fans, this season had become somewhat leisurely in its pace, but this episode put the drama front and center again, while giving us one hell of a good action set piece, something this series does very well.

The story line of the main protagonists, Jesse Custer, Tulip, and Cassidy, came to a head as Jesse prepares to take on the mantle of Messiah under the guidance of Her Starr and the Grail, after parting ways with his lifelong love and his best bud vampire. Jesse is about to go big time, while the other two prepare to hit the road to the Caribbean and wash their hands of Jesse. Of course it does not work out like that as Tulip catches on that the couple down the hall in their dilapidated apartment building, have been spying on them all this time for the Grail. This does not end well for our heroes, as one ends up dead and the other two at each other's throats as Jesse and Cassidy are on the road again, with a dead Tulip in the back seat, on a journey to save her. This entails a reunion with Jesse's family, a very sinister clan that has only been hinted at so far.

All this had the feeling of something done to jump start the story again after a bunch of episodes that felt like they were just marking time and setting up plot points for down the road. The whole Jesse as Messiah thing seemed like a bad turn in the way he seemingly dropped the friends who'd had his back through some tough spots. Same for the Cassidy lusting after Tulip subplot; it didn't work. But we did learn a lot about the character of Cassidy when he terminates his elderly vampire son, Dennis, realizing that he had made a terrible mistake and rectifying it with extreme prejudice.

But for me, the heart of this episode, as well as the whole series, is Eugene Root, played so well by Ian Colletti, and his escape from Hell with the help of Adolf Hitler himself. It really says something about how out there this show can be in how it makes us actually pull for Hitler when Eugene beckons him to jump in the boat on the banks of the river Styx (it would have been neat if they'd cast Dennis DeYoung as Charon). Of course, things take a turn once Eugene and Hitler get back to Earth, one that we'll have to wait until next season to see played out. Eugene is the one truly moral character in the show, and his personal Hell was heartbreaking to see.

The cold open, where we learn a few things about the teenage Jesse and his awful Louisiana family, was a good set up to explain just enough, while not giving too much away and peaking the audience's interest; and special praise to Dominic Ruggeiri as the young Jesse in the Colonel Sanders suit.

The acting by all the regulars was exceptional, but I have to give a shout out to Pip Torrens who is the spitting image of the comic book's image of Herr Starr, along with Noah Taylor's sympathetic portrayal of Hitler, and long time character actress, Amy Hill, as Ms Mannering, the prison matron boss of Hell. It was so disappointing that we did not spend any time in this episode with Graham McTavish's Saint of Killers, last seen requesting a meeting with Satan (another plot point for Season 3).

This show has been an amazing adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's epic comic series, it has been dark and funny and out there, and with the three main protagonists on the road to Angelville at the end of the finale, it is only going to push its boundaries further.

Season Two Review

[southdavid · 7/10 · 11 June 2020]

I quite enjoyed the first season of "Preacher", the adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's graphic novels. I really liked the leads and the story of that run. This second season didn't quite hit the same heights for me though, for reasons I'll get into shortly.

Having left Annville behind, though unaware of its fate, our three heroes Jessie (Dominic Cooper), Tulip (Ruth Negga) and Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) head to New Orleans to look for God. They are pursued by the recently released "Saint of Killers" (Graham McTavish) sent after them on the promise of joining his family in heaven if he's successful. Meanwhile, still trapped in Hell, an equipment failure allows Eugene (Ian Colletti) to meet his neighbours, including one Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor).

I still like where the show is tonally, dark and violent, impressive in its gore, sophomoric in its sense of humour and surprisingly wide in its increased scale. But what I didn't really care for was how the story went, particularly the act of splitting up the principle three so frequently and dramatically across the run. Obviously, wedges need to be driven between them as the show runs on for dramatic purposes, but this seems really soon to be doing it, particularly as they only really got on the same page in the finale of the first season.

I also felt we spent too much time in Hell with Eugene, it's not that I didn't want to see him at all, but the story didn't have enough beats to be stretched out across the entire run, and I'm presuming that the resolution of that story is mostly there to be utilised in the later seasons . . . though obviously I'm not sure.

It's not such a disastrous downturn in quality that I'm considering not watching any more, but it is a step or two down from the first season that I felt was truly wonderful.

How can you make a season finale boring?

[Eli_Elvis · 1/10 · 26 August 2019]

How can you make a season finale boring? Just ask Seth Rogan. Wtf was the point of this season? Seriously.