bonus features

Ratings: After the first season averaged 9.32 million viewers per episodes, season two’s figures fell from 8.38 million to 3.73 million, averaging just 4.73 million. A third season looks very unlikely.

It’s Wossisname! Preacher James is played by Jim Parrack who was Hoyt in True Blood.

Musical Interlude: In the final scene of the season, Rachael sings the song “Nature Boy” to her locustmagnet baby. The weirdly enchanting song with its mystifying lyrics was originally recorded by Nat King Cole in 1948 and written by a protohippy called eden ahbez; he was born George Aberle, raised as George McGrew and eventually changed his name to capital- eschewing ahbez. He was part of a movement that was known as the “Nature Boys”.

Best Line: Bellamy: “When were you going to tell me I died in 1934?”