'Preacher' Episode 4, Season 1 Review

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By Darian Scalamoni

       Preacher has been one of my favorite programs I’m currently watching. Between the acting, weird plot as well as the setting and being based on a comic book, it’s right up my alley. This week I’ll be covering episode 4 which unfortunately was my least favorite of the season thus far.

            Episode 4 starts with a weird local sport (at least that’s what it seemed like) where a group of meat-packing goons are hunting down girls with paintball guns in the middle of the night. We later discover that these are bad men because they’re Odin Quincannon’s men. Unfortunately as one of the girls is chased into the woods, she is hit by a paintball and then falls into a pit to her demise. This continues the pattern of interesting openings that the series has had week after week.

            Tulip, being the feminist that she is, doesn’t approve of Quincannon’s words blaming the young woman’s death on her running from his men. This leads to Tulip taking out her frustrations by throwing one of his men out of the town’s whorehouse before realizing that it was another man just enjoying himself. That man, luckily, was neighborhood vampire and fan favorite, Cassidy. As Cassidy is being rushed to the hospital, he asks Tulip to kiss him and after she does, Cassidy looks to be in similar fashion to a cartoon character with hearts in his eyes. Is this the start of a beautiful budding relationship between Cass and Tulip?

            Speaking of Cass, after his interaction with the angels in last week’s episode, he explains to Jesse that there are people after him for what seems to be “inside” of him. Custer mistakes this for his inner knowledge of the Lord to which Cassidy warns him but the preacher claims he has other things to worry about. One of the bigger things he has to worry about though is bringing Annville’s big bad Odin Quincannon (played brilliantly by Jackie Earle Haley) to church. Jesse believes if he could use his newfound powers to get Quincannon to believe in front of the whole town, then more people would come to church.

            Most of this was filler to set up future relationships and such, but it was Jesse’s sermon at the end along with the entertaining DeBlanc and Fiore this week that kept this episode afloat. It wasn’t a bad episode by any means but it was my least favorite of the series thus far.

7.8/10