'Preacher' Season 2 episode 5 Review: Dallas

★★★★☆
The previous episode left us hanging as Tulip admitted to being married to Viktor, an elusive new figure in the show that we really don’t know to much about. This episode continues on from there, as Jesse uses Genesis to make Tulip leave, strings Viktor up on his own torture device and starts wondering whether to kill him or not.

‘Dallas’ is basically a short collection of flashbacks of the aftermath of Carlos' betrayal.

Just to hammer across the point that we’ve never seen Jesse more lost, the camera takes great care to show him, and their stoner roommate Reggie tearing pieces of the Bible to use for rolling paper. Again, nothing that is incredibly new to the viewers.

The safe, yet unhappy lifestyle ends when he finds Tulip’s stash with ill-gotten cash and birth control pills. That’s the last straw that breaks their relationship up and pushes him over the edge and in turn he takes that anger/frustration out on Reggie: Jesse then decides to return to Annville and Tulip lets him.

‘Dallas’ is good at filling in the gaps in Jesse and Tulip’s past, as well as showing us Jesse's darker side. He went stark raving mad when he found out about what Tulip did, filled with pure rage due to jealousy and hurt, Jesse decides to take that hurt out on Viktor in an episode where Jesse perfectly portrays almost every emotion in the book. But In the end, it comes as no surprise that present day Jesse does the noble thing. He cuts down Viktor and gets him to sign the divorce papers.

When he gets back to Tulip, they kiss and make up, going back to the “till the end of the world” promise they made before the whole drama with Viktor.

Although there was very little doubt that Jesse would have gone away with Viktor, what’s interesting to notice is the development that our favourite freeloading vampire Cassidy went through, or rather the side that he showed.

He’s been terrible at hiding his crush on Tulip for the whole season, but it is in ‘Dallas’ that we finally see what he’s capable of and how much he does care for his padres. Although Tulip is blunt and perceptive enough to call him out on that, she does tell him that if Jesse kills Viktor, the two are done.

And what Cassidy does is try and slightly convince Jesse to in fact kill him. This not-so-suble, but well executed manipulation can only spell trouble in the long run. It’s also a fresh new side to a favourite character, who, despite doing all sorts of selfless things throughout the seasons, keeps saying he’s a terrible person at heart.