AMC’s Brilliant ‘Preacher’ Is Television’s inayofuata Great Weekly Cultural Event 

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AMC’s Brilliant ‘Preacher’ Is Television’s Next Great Weekly Cultural Event

We live in a glorious period, one in which television options are abundant. During this era of peak television, there are too many great shows for any one person to be able to watch, and so we pick and choose the four or five or six shows we watch every week. More shows are being watched, but those shows have fewer viewers.

It’s put the internet in a difficult position, however, because there are only a few shows with enough viewers to generate big conversations. For all the choices, in many respects we’ve reverted to a kind of monoculture, thanks to the phenomenon in which the internet crowds around only a few shows to the detriment of all others. Right now, those two shows are

The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. With the exception of the first season of True Detective and the NFL, nothing else since Breaking Bad comes close to those two shows in terms of the number of viewers, and the ability to attract an audience of that scale on the internet.

That’s going to change soon. When Preacher debuts later this month on AMC, it’s finally going to break The Walking Dead/Game of Thrones logjam, because Preacher has everything the internet loves in a show: Great and abundant source material with which we can make comparisons; mysteries we can tease out and explore; questions about faith and spirituality; an abundance of characters; compelling and original storylines; myriad influences from Westerns to Tarantino to the Bible; and sex, booze, blood and bullets.

It’s also wicked fun. If there is a God — and Preacher certainly suggests there is — this show is going to be huge.

"AMC’s Brilliant ‘Preacher’ Is Television’s Next Great Weekly Cultural Event"

AMC needs this, regardless of how much is strays from the source material.

Yeah, honestly I just want it to be good. I don’t care if it strays, as long as the big beats are still there. Do your own thing… just be good.

They can’t not stray really, some of the comic is SO 90s.

@Krooner True. But these days… I will take all the 90s I can get.

Does the Saint of Killers show up in the pilot or do we have to wait for his reveal?

I’ve never read these comics, but the setting and other story elements remind me of Stephen King’s Desperation.

Hmm, interesting comparison. It doesn’t really feel like Desperation, tthough, at least in the comics. It is far more up-front with its menace, and is gleefully naughty. Also way funnier.

If it gets the Rowles Seal of Approval then everyone will certainly hate it and it will not see season 2.

I know, right? This will be just like “Sons of Anarchy,” “Mad Men,” “The Walking Dead” and all of the other failures of television that Rowles has reviewed.

Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead are both horrible for what it’s worth. You’d have to be a masochist to have watched the entire run of Sons, that show fell off a cliff after season 2.

Oh, I stopped watching both a several years ago. I just wanted to point out how ridiculous Pallazzo’s premise was.

I would watch it if they didnt call it preacher. It sounds like a real shitty version of the comic.

I’m already lowering my expectations. (Honestly, I lowered my expectations when I first heard Seth Rogen was behind this. I can imagine we’ll see his personal comedic fingerprints increase for as long as this show lasts. I hope I’m wrong, I hope it’s good, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, I hope it feels like the original comic. But it doesn’t sound much like it so far to me. Please don’t let this wonderful comic get Rogen’ized.)

There’s just too many things they’ve changed for me to get excited about this. Firstly where the fuck is Cassidy’s sunglasses? Is it that hard to at least keep that part?

Uhh, maybe open them eyelids once in a while, because Cass has been shown wearing sunglasses in promos here…

And about four other spots/prints since like February. But I guess working for the Sunglass Hut lobby is super time-consuming or something.

Surprised there hasn’t been more controversy around this one (assuming it stays fairly close to the source material). It doesn’t just “ask questions about spirituality” or even advocate some sort of rationalist-atheist philosophy.

Unlike a lot of other works the villains aren’t just people who do evil deeds in God’s name or use religion to justify cruelty and violence. It actually portrays the literal Abrahamic god (who exists in the story) as a deceitful, cowardly, and unworthy being. God himself is the antagonist of the story, and not in some vague, allegorical way. You usually only see this type of thing in satire or parodies (South Park, Simpsons, various Seth MacFarlane shows), but Preacher mostly plays it straight.

I imagine that AMC might soften that aspect of the story a bit in later seasons.

I’m guessing that most people who would be offended by this aren’t aware of the series yet (or at least the type who would loudly proclaim their disapproval)?

Honestly, some changes I’ve seen have me a lil worried, but a flawed Preacher show is better than none (unless it’s on the CW). I just pray they do justice to the Saint of Killers. And they need to cast a good Jody.

Also, the Masada massacre could be an amazing season finale if done well

And Jackie Earle Haley is a great pick for Quincannon, tho I have no idea what he’s doing in season 1

This is going to be Into the Badlands 2.0. Good premise, terrible execution. AMC doesn’t know how to leave a show alone and let a good thing be a good thing.

ok, so we already know that Jesse Custer is the new Coach Taylor. who is the new Daryl? who is the new Negan? who is the new Badger and Skinny Pete?

“AMC’s Brilliant ‘Preacher’ Is Television’s Next Great Weekly Cultural Event”

I highly doubt Preacher having anywhere near the level of broad appeal of the other shows mentioned.

But when will the Irish show up to fight the Wolves?

So, this should be filed under “Sponsored” right?

This shit had me at Willie Nelson. I haven’t read the comics, though rest assured I will be balls deep in my local comic shop tomorrow buying all the graphic novels. Fuck it man. In an era of “Death Lottery” bullshit television, I’m looking for something that has some clever and badass writing, and Mr. Ennis and this fucking show has delivered on the pilot. Yeah, it may turn around and suck ass through a straw mid-season, but I’m just barely not-jaded enough to hope that this crazy genius writing shitstorm will continue for a while.

And even Rowles, who I’m pretty sure got me drunk and had sex with me during that whole “True Detective” fiasco, can’t shake me off the thing, for now.

Unless of course the showrunners shit in the bed and then try to three-way me in an epic German Shciessefest… or whatever the word is for shitshow.

We shall see, but for now I’m drunk as fuck and happy with it and damn tomorrow and the vagaries of internet haters anyhow.

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