AMC’s “Preacher” opens with a bang.
Last week I dropped my advanced review of the series, which I can almost guarantee with be your new favorite show.
In the review I talk about how the opening differs from the comic, and you’ll see that in the below clip, which also is oozing with blood.
The new series hails from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (This Is the End, Superbad, Neighbors).
Based on the twisted and popular ’90s comic book franchise of the same name, “Preacher,” set to debut on Sunday, May 22nd at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, is created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and is the story of Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that allows him to develop a highly unconventional power. Jesse, his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) embark on a journey to, literally, find God.
Other cast includes W. Earl Brown as ‘Sheriff Hugo Root’, the mean-hearted father of Eugene Root aka Arseface (Ian Colletti), a flinty-eyed, conspiracy-credulous redneck who is not a fool and has a vulnerability to him.
Jamie Anne Allman will play Betsy Schenck, a meek wife who appears to suffer beatings by the hand of her husband, Donny. When the Preacher checks up on her, though, she tells a different story. Derek Wilson is Donny Schenck, a Civil War re-enactor and abusive thug who gets into altercations with Jesse Custer but nevertheless shows up to church on Sundays.
A Nightmare On Elm Street‘s Jackie Earle Haley was cast as Odin Quincannon , a member of the local KKK branch and clashes multiple times with Jesse.
DeBlanc (Anatol Yusef) and Fiore (Thomas Brooke) play two Adephi angels sent to Earth to retrieve Genesis (the powerful spawn of a demon and angel that possesses Jesse). Everything’s under control…or is it?