🟧▪️𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 & 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐒: 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 (𝐓𝐕 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗)▪️🟧

As I promised, I’m back to talk to you about 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑, the TV series which Brian recently mentioned to be fascinated by.

📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: If you like your TV escapist and sacrilegious and sexy and comically violent, this is your show. God has left heaven and gone walkabout; meanwhile, the spirit of creation has broken free and is zooming around the Earth trying to find a suitable host, and assassin-type angels are trying to track it down. And that’s just the first episode. Ruth Negga and Joseph Gilgun get total career-defining roles in this series. It’s a modern Life of Brian on psychedelics – I’ve recently rewatched the whole thing and it’s just as thrilling the second time round.
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑂𝑛 𝑀𝑦 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑟, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 19𝑡ℎ, 2022 / 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑦𝑛 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑤𝑖𝑐ℎ)

Photo credit: Mads Perch; Preacher poster / edit by Olga

⭐𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 is an American supernatural adventure TV series developed by 𝑺𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏, 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈, and 𝑺𝒆𝒕𝒉 𝑹𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒏 for AMC starring 𝑫𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓, 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒉 𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒈𝒖𝒏 and 𝑹𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑵𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒂. It is based on the comic book series Preacher created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
The series was officially picked up on September 9, 2015, with a ten-episode order which premiered on May 22, 2016. The series was renewed for a fourth and final season, which premiered on August 4, 2019 and concluded on September 29, 2019.

🟧𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆🟧
Jesse Custer is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking preacher who, enduring a crisis of faith, becomes infused with an extraordinary power. He embarks on a quest to better understand his new gift and literally find God, alongside his trigger-happy ex-girlfriend, Tulip, and new vampire friend, Cassidy.

⭐It’s not the series for everyone – but as we know, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 is a special kind with a brilliant sense of humour, intelligent approach, and sophisticated taste. And yes, he can appreciate a black humour a lot😉

“With its exploding pastors, gun-toting angels, fantastic fight scenes and pop-culture zingers, it should be a hit. And yet Preacher remains unpreached. Why?
[…] The point is, we’re lapping up genre TV. Preacher could not have launched to a more receptive audience at a more receptive time. And yet no one is talking about it. Watercoolers remain uncrowded. Preacher remains unpreached. Have you ever rushed home because every second of not knowing what happens in the next episode of Preacher is like a fingernail down the chalkboard of your soul? No. And that’s a shame, because, as brilliant as Preacher is (and let’s get this out of the way now – it really is), it’s an oddly difficult show to love.
[…] Its trio of leads help: Dominic Cooper is just the right side of impossibly handsome to pull off a murdering-criminal-turned-preacher; Ruth Negga flits from vulnerable to punch-your-face-off in a flip of the bird; and Joe Gilgun somehow makes Cassidy, the mass-murdering vampire, more darn lovable than a bucket full of puppies and cash.
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 18𝑡ℎ, 2016)

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