Love the Sinner HARTNETT’S
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
FINAL-1 Sat, Aug 18, 2018 4:55:29 PM Your Weekly Guide to TV Entertainment for the week of August 25 - 31, 2018 Love the sinner HARTNETT’S ALL SOFT CLOTH CAR WASH Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun and Dominic Cooper star in “Preacher” $ 00 OFF 3ANY CAR WASH! EXPIRES 9/15/18 BUMPER SPECIALISTSHartnett's Car Wash H1artnett x 5` Auto Body, Inc. COLLISION REPAIR SPECIALISTS & APPRAISERS MA R.S. #2313 R. ALAN HARTNETT LIC. #2037 DANA F. HARTNETT LIC. #9482 15 WATER STREET DANVERS (Exit 23, Rte. 128) TEL. (978) 774-2474 FAX (978) 750-4663 Open 7 Days Mon.-Fri. 8-7, Sat. 8-6, Sun. 8-4 ** Gift Certificates Available ** OLD FASHIONED SERVICE FREE REGISTRY SERVICE John Doyle INSURANCEDoyle Insurance AGENCY Voted #1 1 x 3 Insurance Agency Conflicted cleric Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper, “Mama Mia!” 2008) and his blasphemous posse of expat vampires, career criminals, voodoo enthusiasts and accidentally-sent-to-hell teenagers continue their brazen hunt for an absentee God who has abdicated the Auto • Homeowners Business • Life Insurance throne of heaven. With several nefarious factions struggling to manipulate, exploit or simply murder him, Jesse must protect his al- 978-777-6344 lies without compromising his obsessive search for answers in the season 3 conclusion of “Preacher,” airing Sunday, Aug. 26, on AMC. www.doyleinsurance.com FINAL-1 Sat, Aug 18, 2018 4:55:31 PM 2 • Salem News • August 25 - 31, 2018 ‘Preacher‘s’ cast of unforgettable characters wraps up third season By Kenneth Andeel dream project, eventually enlisting inhabited by “Genesis,” the off- unknown and was currently hang- Meanwhile, The Grail’s fixer, Herr TV Media Sam Catlin (“Breaking Bad”) as spring of a forbidden tryst between ing out somewhere on Earth. Starr (Pip Torrens, “Star Wars: The showrunner after AMC took the an angel and a devil. Genesis gave In season 2, Jesse, Cassidy and Force Awakens,” 2015), is demand- Video releases esse Custer is not a prototypical bait. Jesse a pseudo-superpower known Tulip struck out on the great Ameri- ing Jesse take over Messiah duties man of God. He drinks. He Casting announcements fol- as the “Word of God” that allowed can roadtrip to find God. Their pur- for The Grail, replacing their current Jsmokes. Of course he swears. lowed, with hawk-eyed fans of the him to compel people to do any- suit took them to New Orleans, inbred figurehead, and the afore- He breaks limbs in bar brawls and source material scrutinizing every thing he commanded. Jesse’s ex, where they were tangled with mentioned Angel of Death, called he’ll shoot important bits of anato- decision. Three seasons in, it’s be- the viciously capable criminal Tulip groups that included basic violent the Saint of Killers (Graham McTav- my off of anyone who’d dare try to come evident that the producers O’Hare, returned to Anneville, and criminals, vampire covens, a Chris- ish, “Outlander”), is still out there take his dead dad’s church by force. nailed it, and Negga, Gilgun and a centenarian Irish vampire named tian paramilitary called The Grail, with the power to kill absolutely He pals around with a drug-gorg- Cooper have capably represented Cassidy fell out of the sky and be- and the voodoo-wielding Louisiana anyone, human or otherwise. Oh, ing vampire and he’s in love with the fringe comic’s beloved trio. gan squatting at Jesse’s church. branch of Jesse’s family. and Jesse has also given up a small his childhood friend, a hardened Cooper carries the show — it is Forces arrayed to contest Jesse’s Jesse’s creepy extended family slice of his own soul, and the Word criminal. But, craziest of all, Jesse called “Preacher,” after all, and not newfound power, including a pair continues to play the villain in sea- of God no longer reliably works for dares to confront God mano a “Vampire” or “Trigger-Happy Ban- of awkward angels who eventually son 3. After Tulip’s demise, Jesse him. prime mover, and insists he be giv- dit” — but Negga and Gilgun give hired a condemned Old West gun- was forced to look for a means of All of these conflicts (and plenty en answers to all those mysteries him consistent support. Season 1 man-turned-Angel of Death to resurrection. As it turns out, voo- more) are set to combust in the third of creation that it’s generally as- began with Jesse dragging his shoot Genesis out of Jesse, if neces- doo is a very useful skill for bring- season finale of “Preacher,” and it Jake Johnson, Ed Helms sumed we puny humans aren’t heels as the uninspired (and unin- sary. The first season ended with ing back the dead. The only trouble would be a sin for any fan of smart, and Jon Hamm in “Tag” meant to know. spiring) preacher of his tiny Texas Jesse calling up heaven via angel- is that you might end up owing subversive, horror-inspired super- You might imagine that an al- hometown of Anneville. On the phone and demanding to speak to your evil Gran’ma L’Angelle (Betty natural adventure to miss out. Catch Tag mighty God who didn’t want to be verge of renouncing his duties after God, then discovering that God Buckley, “Oz”) an unspecified favor the culmination of season 3 when it Five friends have been playing bothered by an audacious mortal a crisis of faith, Jesse was forcibly had abandoned heaven for reasons in exchange. airs Sunday, Aug. 26, on AMC. the same game of tag for de- could just hit the “smite” button cades, setting aside one and have done, but Jesse is special. month of every year for the For unknown reasons, he’s been game, but when Jerry chosen as the host for a celestial (Renner) gets engaged, the being of unprecedented might that men realize that their lifelong rivals God’s own — and there you pastime may be coming to an have the wicked conceit of end. Hoagie (Helms), Bob “Preacher,” set to conclude its third season on AMC. Watch on Sunday, (Hamm), Randy (Johnson) and Aug. 26, as Preacher Jesse (Domi- Kevin (Buress) realize that in nic Cooper, “Mama Mia!” 2008), all their years of playing, Jerry on-again, off-again assassin/lover has never been tagged, and Tulip (Ruth Negga, “Agents of the four men set out to tag S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and Irish bloodsucker him before his wedding, tar- Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun, “Misfits”) geting him at a country club, try to find God and hold Him to ac- in his home and even at an Al- count without any of them dying coholics Anonymous meeting. (or worse). Director: Jeff Tomsic. Stars: “Preacher” arrived at AMC after Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jake spending nearly two decades in de- Johnson, Hannibal Buress, velopment hell. The story was origi- Jeremy Renner, Annabelle nally told in comic book format by Wallis, Isla Fisher. 2018. 100 writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve min. Comedy. Dillon. Their 66-issue run spanned from 1995 to 2000 and was part of an era of explicit comics targeted American Animals at mature readers. Ennis, realizing A pair of bored college stu- the story’s screen potential, started dents, Spencer (Keoghan) and shopping it as a script in 1998, be- Warren (Peters), forge a plan fore he’d even concluded the narra- tive in its original medium. to steal a collection of rare Obstacles abounded, and the and valuable books from a screen adaptation passed through university library and line up a multiple hands until it finally made buyer who’s willing pay tens it into the clutches of an unlikely of millions of dollars for the pair, who just happened to have collection. They recruit two of obsessively coveted it for years. their childhood friends, Eric Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, (Abrahamson) and Chas collaborators on “This Is the End” (Jenner), to help with the (2013) and other projects, grew up heist, but despite the library’s together and bonded over a love of lax security, things don’t go as Ennis’ comic. The duo had been dili- planned for the amateur gently dropping their names into thieves. Based on a true story. the hat every time another round of Director: Bart Layton. Stars: interest in a “Preacher” adaptation Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Bar- sparked up, and at last, in 2013, the stars aligned: the two were com- ry Keoghan, Jared Abraham- missioned to write a pilot for their Ruth Negga in “Preacher” son. 2018. 116 min. Crime. FINAL-1 Sat, Aug 18, 2018 4:55:31 PM August 25 - 31, 2018 • Salem News • 3 Sunday Tuesday 7:00 p.m. WBZ (4) NFL New England Pa- 4:00 p.m. GOLF (69) Feherty 1:00 p.m. NBCSN (48) Premier League Live Live 10:00 a.m. ESPN (49) Little League World 3:00 p.m. ESPN2 (50) NBA: The Jump triots at New York Giants Pre-season 5:30 p.m. GOLF (69) Golfing World Goal Zone Live Live ESPN (49) College Football Count- 6:00 p.m. GOLF (69) Golf Central 2:00 p.m. NBCSN (48) This is Football Series Live Noon ESPN (49) Little League World Se- 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 (50) WNBA Playoffs down 8:00 p.m. GOLF (69) Golf’s Greatest Monday Sports (49) this week ries Live 8:00 p.m. ESPN NCAA Northwest- Rounds ern at Purdue Live 2:00 p.m. NBCSN (48) Premier League NESN (51) Red Sox First Pitch Live 9:00 p.m.