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Watch on Sunday, Aug. 26, itary called The Grail, and the voo- TV Media as Preacher Jesse (Dominic Cooper, doo-wielding Louisiana branch of “Mama Mia!” 2008), on-again, off- Jesse’s family. esse Custer is not a prototypical again assassin/lover Tulip (Ruth Jesse’s creepy extended family Jman of God. He drinks. He smokes. Negga, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and continues to play the villain in sea- Of course he swears. He breaks Irish bloodsucker Cassidy (Joseph son 3. After Tulip’s demise, Jesse was limbs in bar brawls and he’ll shoot Gilgun, “Misfits”) try to find God forced to look for a means of resur- important bits of anatomy off of and hold Him to account without rection. As it turns out, voodoo is a anyone who’d dare try to take his any of them dying (or worse). very useful skill for bringing back the dead dad’s church by force. He pals “Preacher” arrived at AMC after dead. The only trouble is that you around with a drug-gorging vampire spending nearly two decades in de- might end up owing your evil and he’s in love with his childhood velopment hell. The story was origi- Gran’ma L’Angelle (Betty Buckley, friend, a hardened criminal. But, cra- nally told in comic book format by “Oz”) an unspecified favor in ex- writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve ziest of all, Jesse dares to confront change. Dillon. Their 66-issue run spanned God mano a prime mover, and in- Meanwhile, The Grail’s fixer, Herr from 1995 to 2000 and was part of sists he be given answers to all those Starr (Pip Torrens, “Star Wars: The an era of explicit comics targeted at mysteries of creation that it’s gener- Force Awakens,” 2015), is demand- mature readers. Ennis, realizing the ing Jesse take over Messiah duties ally assumed we puny humans story’s screen potential, started aren’t meant to know. for The Grail, replacing their current shopping it as a script in 1998, be- inbred figurehead, and the afore- You might imagine that an al- fore he’d even concluded the narra- mighty God who didn’t want to be mentioned Angel of Death, called tive in its original medium. the Saint of Killers (Graham McTav- bothered by an audacious mortal Obstacles abounded, and the could just hit the “smite” button ish, “Outlander”), is still out there screen adaptation passed through with the power to kill absolutely and have done, but Jesse is special. multiple hands until it finally made it Ruth Negga in “Preacher” For unknown reasons, he’s been anyone, human or otherwise. Oh, into the clutches of an unlikely pair, bonded over a love of Ennis’ comic. as the uninspired (and uninspiring) and demanding to speak to God, and Jesse has also given up a small chosen as the host for a celestial be- who just happened to have obses- The duo had been diligently drop- preacher of his tiny Texas hometown then discovering that God had slice of his own soul, and the Word ing of unprecedented might that ri- sively coveted it for years. Seth Ro- ping their names into the hat every of Anneville. On the verge of re- abandoned heaven for reasons un- of God no longer reliably works for vals God’s own — and there you gen and Evan Goldberg, collabora- time another round of interest in a nouncing his duties after a crisis of known and was currently hanging him. have the wicked conceit of “Preach- tors on “This Is the End” (2013) and “Preacher” adaptation sparked up, faith, Jesse was forcibly inhabited by out somewhere on Earth. All of these conflicts (and plenty er,” set to conclude its third season other projects, grew up together and and at last, in 2013, the stars “Genesis,” the offspring of a forbid- In season 2, Jesse, Cassidy and Tu- more) are set to combust in the third aligned: the two were commis- den tryst between an angel and a lip struck out on the great American season finale of “Preacher,” and it sioned to write a pilot for their devil. Genesis gave Jesse a pseudo- roadtrip to find God. Their pursuit would be a sin for any fan of smart, Karen Gibson School of Dance superpower known as the “Word of dream project, eventually enlisting took them to New Orleans, where subversive, horror-inspired super- Announces Sam Catlin (“Breaking Bad”) as God” that allowed him to compel they were tangled with groups that natural adventure to miss out. Catch showrunner after AMC took the bait. people to do anything he command- included basic violent criminals, the culmination of season 3 when it Registration of Fall Dance Classes Casting announcements fol- ed. Jesse’s ex, the viciously capable airs Sunday, Aug. 26, on AMC. lowed, with hawk-eyed fans of the criminal Tulip O’Hare, returned to vampire covens, a Christian paramil- For More Information or to Register source material scrutinizing every Anneville, and a centenarian Irish decision. Three seasons in, it’s be- vampire named Cassidy fell out of Call Karen Gibson Jenkins 276-2756 or 276-4631 come evident that the producers the sky and began squatting at Jes- nailed it, and Negga, Gilgun and se’s church. Classes Begin After Labor Day Cooper have capably represented Forces arrayed to contest Jesse’s Register EARLY Before Classes Are Full! the fringe comic’s beloved trio. newfound power, including a pair of Family Rates • Well-Qualified Teachers Cooper carries the show — it is awkward angels who eventually OVER 50 YEARS EXPERIENCE called “Preacher,” after all, and not hired a condemned Old West gun- “Vampire” or “Trigger-Happy Ban- man-turned-Angel of Death to shoot Dancewear fittings on dit” — but Negga and Gilgun give Genesis out of Jesse, if necessary. Monday August 27th at 105 Main Street 3-6 p.m. him consistent support. 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