DC'S PREACHER FULL SEASON REVIEW: WELL THAT HAPPENED

If you haven't seen it and your struggling to find something like I do most days you must check out dc's preacher starring Dominic Cooper and one of my top favourites Joe Gilgun, It has been adapted for tv bye seth rogen and Evan Goldberg and no wander why it had to be dulled down the comic books done by d.c consisted of inbred descendants of Jesus, a nuclear strike on Monument Valley, and a man screwing a giant pile of meat, sounds tasty right.

The jist of The story follows the adventures of a Texas reverend and child-abuse survivor named Jesse Custer after a supernatural entity grants him strange powers. He subsequently goes on a global road trip alongside his hit-man girlfriend, Tulip, and a louche Irish vampire named Cassidy. Their mission: Find God, who has abandoned His heavenly throne, and tell Him what an asshole He is. 

All I have to say is I smashed this out in one day from 5pm till midnight couldn't stop watching the hole series just drew me in, Dominic Cooper is brilliant as well as Ruth Negga who we should all know from marvel agents of shield but the stand out actor was definitely my main man Joe gilgun ( lockout,harry Brown,misfits ) who is absolutely outstanding as the pale Irish vampire Cassidy.

It has been changed a lil bit from the comics but that was probably because as I said earlier (seth rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin )they had to dull it down quite a bit to make it suitable for tv viewing, But nonetheless it's amazing and after just one season there is still so much more for them to explore and to happen as the preacher has only just started looking for God.

So all in all for me  showrunners Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin have more or less thrown away the rule book. It's thrillingly ballsy - especially as they've claimed the blast really did leave no survivors - but it's also an undeniably weird choice in light of recent plot events. Focusing the finale so much on Annville as a community ("God is coming! 50% off bikini waxes!") made the twist ending really land!

Despite the death toll, this was a much less cynical finale than we might have expected, as "God" finally shows up in the most clichéd form possible, all white beard and Hallmark halo, only to reveal himself as a fake. God is gone. And while the scene itself is deliberately absurd (crazier than taking angel dust at a Justin Bieber concert, according to Cass), there's real tragedy in the realisation that "You are all saved" is a completely hollow promise.

The fallout is swift, exemplifying the blacker-than-black twists which Preacher does best: several people commit suicide, Odin cradles a hunk of meat in his arms like it's his daughter, and Mrs Loach suffocates her daughter while her son takes a selfie. On balance, this town's probably better off as dust.

If Jesse and Tulip's backstory with Carlos was a bit of an anticlimax (he betrayed them just because they were happy?), it was still fun to see the pair of them all dressed up and robbing banks, and in barely a minute of screen time you finally understand why their relationship was so hard for her to let go. And as satisfying as their long-awaited reunion kiss was, it was even more satisfying when Tulip punched Jesse in the face right afterwards for using Genesis on her because let's be real, that's a super-creepy power to use in a sexual context. 

Cassidy's scenes with Sheriff Root also served as a reminder that his sins go much deeper than hating The Big Lebowski, and it's hard not to see Carlos's jealous betrayal as foreshadowing for the Jesse/Tulip/Cassidy triangle. That's an area where season one's slow-burn character groundwork will pay dividends down the line, because Jesse and Cassidy's bond is now so solidified that its decline will really hurt. (Unless the three of them can figure out some kind of polyamorous situation. Nothing is impossible in Preacher.) 

Having Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy spend ten whole episodes in Annville first makes for a much more compelling season two overall than if the show had started out with the three of them already "driving around, shooting people, getting wasted and looking for God", as the comics did. 

Jesse losing his congregation has to raise the stakes of that road trip - as does being pursued by a killing machine like The Cowboy, whose connection to the main story has finally become clear. And do we really trust that Emily won't emerge from the dust at some point in season two to turn the love triangle into a love rhombus? 

Preacher's first season was so consistently audacious and original that it's easy to forgive most of its uneven pacing and character shortcuts. With a leaner cast and a broader scope as the trio head out on the open road, season two is likely to feel like a very different show, but hopefully one that retains the same gloriously absurdist blend of bathos, bloody action, philosophical drama and deadpan humor. Speaking of the latter - DeBlanc had better be okay. That one's not negotiable, Preacher. 


 so look out for series 2 mid next year and I'd you haven't watched the first I highly recommend doing it now if your a fan of the unexplainable, DC and the holy shit storm of angels and demons and everything in between plus a stand out cast then get to it 9/10 #CAF #MsaNewsandViews