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Five Thoughts on Preacher’s “Sonsabitches”

By | July 2nd, 2018
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Sort out some red Gummi Bears and warm up your organ grinder- it’s time for some more Preacher y’all! Here we are once again, barreling through season three. Nice to have you with me. In a world where god is a dalmatian man and the messiah is an inbred idiot, it’s good to have a friend to share some laughs with. This season is shaping up to be a hell of a thing and I’m with ya ’til the end of the world dear reader. The end of the world. Let’s see what’s in store for us in season three, episode two, “Sunsabitches.” Last week was rough, but I’m sure nothing bad will happen this week.

1. Harry Krishna and the Hendersons
This episode has two very weird cold opens. The first involves a young Jesse, and a shady high school science teacher who misses a payment with Gran’ma and is chased down by TC, Jodie, and little Jesse who kidnap him and steal his soul.

The second one is much more colorful. We’re in India. At what is called Hare Krishna headquarters. And we are reunited with none other than Herr Starr. It’s colorful, silly, and probably in bad taste, exploding into a Matrix-style shootout between the white-suited Grail soldiers, and the robed-Krishna disciples. Starr kicks the (white) Swami in the balls, and then shoots him in the face. The whole scene is pure Preacher, but also somewhat incosequential to the rest of the episode.

I would like to note that I sorta love bad guys who are so so evil, they’ll kill their minions for failing them. It’s good enough for Darth Vader, and it’s good enough for Herr Starr. It’s sort of refreshing to have an evil so over the top.

2. Jesse vs Cassidy
This Jesse vs Cassidy thing is getting old and it’s only episode 2. Cassidy is in love with Tulip. Jesse is in love with Tulip. Tulip ostensibly loves Jesse. Now, it’s not like Jesse has never made a mistake in his life, but fracturing the central trio is a tough move, and it’s hard to do right. It’s especially irksome because it takes everything fun about Cassidy and replaces it with one boring note. He doesn’t trust Jesse, he wants to ditch Jesse. If Jesse says go up, he wants to go down. It’s dreary to watch and I hope it gets resolved soon.

3. Fun vampire in the sun
…Especially because the regular Cass stuff is on point. Cassidy and TC? Great. After turning down an offer to play backgammon or to share some gummi bears, Cass bonds with the weirdo pervert over his favorite thing. Drugs. That’s what new characters are for, pairing them up in fun combos. Seeing Cassidy balk at TC’s unhinged evil was pretty funny, and it’s a reminder that somewhere in there he has a strict moral code (even if he still does hate The Big Lebowski). “TC,” Cassidy says, “please tell me you’re the worst person here.” “Definitely not,” TC answers truthfully.

Also, TC has magic poop-sniffin’ powers. He can take one whiff and do a whole medical workup. That’s not particularly relavant to anything else, but it is the kind of toilet humor I tune in for.

4. “It’s good to be alive”
Tulip and PTSD is road we’ve already walked. Now I’m not belittling her death and return. That’s enough to traumatize anyone. But I had big issues with how she was sidelined for most of last season. Her new trauma is alluded to throughout the episode, and it had me very nervous that she was going to spend another season having bad dreams instead of blowing away assholes.

So when she smacked the bejubus outta Featherstone? That was a good start. When she frog-marched her Grail enemeies to The Organ Grinder? Gross, but pretty excellent. Of course, Jesse lets Featherbottom go as part of a big plan to get one over on the Grail. It’s fairly convoluted, but I guess we wanted to have our Tulip kicking ass and keep around her nemesis at the same time. She is in the opening credits. I just hope Tulip gets a more active arc this season.

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5. “Eat your dick”
Of course Starr wasn’t on the level with Jesse. While most of the cast is in a shootout with that gang from next week (am I supposed to be learning their names?) Jesse had a meeting with the Grail bossman. Jesse needs his soul back so he can get his powers again. Starr gives him a little something, and Jesse promptly tells Starr to ear his own dick. I can’t be the only one who didn’t sorta want to see how AMC was going to pull that off.

But it was a ruse, and Starr gets away with the soul, and now Jesse is trapped with his Gran’ma for a few more episodes before getting powered back up. Jesse goes back to mopping something called The Tomb, and encounters none other than the skeevy science teacher from the cold opening, ageless and begging for death. Creepy. Creeeeeeepy.


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Jaina Hill

Jaina is from New York. She currently lives in Ohio. Ask her, and she'll swear she's one of those people who loves both Star Wars and Star Trek equally. Say hi to her on twitter @Rambling_Moose!

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