Cooper’s Preacher hits the road at last
The first season of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin’s televised take on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s much-celebrated comic books was effectively a prequel.
The showrunners said they wanted to show preacher Jesse Custer actually preaching in the series, which the comics never did.
The story follows Custer (Dominic Cooper), a small-town cleric with a criminal past who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that gives him the power to make people do whatever he commands.
When Custer realises God is absent from Heaven, he sets out to find Him.
Teaming up with his volatile exgirlfriend Tulip (Ruth Negga) and his best mate Cassidy ( Joseph Gilgun), a 119-year-old Irish vampire, they embark on their epic quest.
During the first run, the trio didn’t actually head out anywhere — they never left the sleepy backwater town of Annville.
However, that town was obliterated in the series finale, and in this expanded second season’s 13 episodes we are promised that the action will delve more into the source material and see Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy out on the open road and pursued by resurrected killing machine the Cowboy (Graham McTavish). If you still haven’t managed to catch Preacher yet, it is a twisted and action-packed supernatural ride. The strong friendship between the leads gives the whole thing a sweet, hopeful edge and stops the spraying blood, outrageous violence and black humour from becoming too dark.