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The ciously capable criminal Tulip them to New Orleans, where they cades, setting aside one in her marriage; and Sharon TV Media duo had been diligently dropping O’Hare, returned to Anneville, and a were tangled with groups that in- month of every year for the (Bergen) opens an online dat- their names into the hat every time centenarian Irish vampire named cluded basic violent criminals, vam- game, but when Jerry (Renner) ing account. Despite the trials esse Custer is not a prototypical another round of interest in a Cassidy fell out of the sky and began pire covens, a Christian paramilitary gets engaged, the men realize and setbacks of starting rela- man of God. He drinks. He “Preacher” adaptation sparked up, squatting at Jesse’s church. called The Grail, and the voodoo- that their lifelong pastime may tionships later in life, all four Jsmokes. Of course he swears. He and at last, in 2013, the stars Forces arrayed to contest Jesse’s wielding Louisiana branch of Jesse’s be coming to an end. Hoagie women push through in the breaks limbs in bar brawls and he’ll aligned: the two were commis- newfound power, including a pair of family. (Helms), Bob (Hamm), Randy pursuit of love. shoot important bits of anatomy off sioned to write a pilot for their awkward angels who eventually Jesse’s creepy extended family (Johnson) and Kevin (Buress) Director: Bill Holderman. Stars: of anyone who’d dare try to take his dream project, eventually enlisting hired a condemned Old West gun- continues to play the villain in sea- Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, dead dad’s church by force. He pals Sam Catlin (“Breaking Bad”) as man-turned-Angel of Death to son 3. After Tulip’s demise, Jesse was realize that in all their years of playing, Jerry has never been Candice Bergen, Mary Steen- around with a drug-gorging vam- showrunner after AMC took the shoot Genesis out of Jesse, if neces- forced to look for a means of resur- burgen. 2018. 104 min. tagged, and the four men set pire and he’s in love with his child- bait. sary. The first season ended with Jes- rection. As it turns out, voodoo is a Comedy. out to tag him before his wed- hood friend, a hardened criminal. Casting announcements fol- se calling up heaven via angel- very useful skill for bringing back But, craziest of all, Jesse dares to lowed, with hawk-eyed fans of the phone and demanding to speak to the dead. The only trouble is that ding, targeting him at a coun- confront God mano a prime mover, source material scrutinizing every God, then discovering that God had you might end up owing your evil try club, in his home and even American Animals and insists he be given answers to decision. Three seasons in, it’s be- abandoned heaven for reasons un- Gran’ma L’Angelle (Betty Buckley, at an Alcoholics Anonymous A pair of bored college stu- all those mysteries of creation that come evident that the producers known and was currently hanging “Oz”) an unspecified favor in ex- meeting. dents, Spencer (Keoghan) and it’s generally assumed we puny hu- nailed it, and Negga, Gilgun and out somewhere on Earth. change. Director: Jeff Tomsic. Stars: Ed Warren (Peters), forge a plan mans aren’t meant to know. Cooper have capably represented In season 2, Jesse, Cassidy and Meanwhile, The Grail’s fixer, Herr Helms, Jon Hamm, Jake John- to steal a collection of rare and You might imagine that an al- the fringe comic’s beloved trio. Tulip struck out on the great Ameri- Starr (Pip Torrens, “Star Wars: The son, Hannibal Buress, Jeremy valuable books from a univer- mighty God who didn’t want to be Cooper carries the show — it is can roadtrip to find God. Their pur- Force Awakens,” 2015), is demand- Renner, Annabelle Wallis, Isla sity library and line up a buyer called “Preacher,” after all, and not suit took bothered by an audacious mortal ing Jesse take over Messiah duties Fisher. 2018. 100 min. Comedy. who’s willing pay tens of mil- “Vampire” or “Trigger-Happy could just hit the “smite” button for The Grail, replacing their current lions of dollars for the collec- and have done, but Jesse is special. Bandit” — but Negga and Gil- inbred figurehead, and the afore- For unknown reasons, he’s been gun give him consistent mentioned Angel of Death, called tion. They recruit two of their Book฀Club childhood friends, Eric (Abra- chosen as the host for a celestial be- support. Season 1 began the Saint of Killers (Graham Four middle-age women who with Jesse dragging McTavish, “Outlander”), is still hamson) and Chas (Jenner), to ing of unprecedented might that ri- have been in a book club to- vals God’s own — and there you his heels as the unin- out there with the power to help with the heist, but despite have the wicked conceit of “Preach- spired (and uninspir- kill absolutely anyone, hu- gether for years have their the library’s lax security, things er,” set to conclude its third season ing) preacher of his man or otherwise. Oh, and lives turned upside down don’t go as planned for the on AMC. Watch on Sunday, Aug. 26, tiny Texas home- Jesse has also given up a when they read “Fifty Shades amateur thieves. Based on a as Preacher Jesse (Dominic Cooper, town of Anneville. small slice of his own soul, of Grey.” Each woman realizes true story. “Mama Mia!” 2008), on-again, off- On the verge of re- and the Word of God no that she’s missing something Director: Bart Layton. Stars: again assassin/lover Tulip (Ruth nouncing his duties longer reliably works for in her life and finds the book Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Bar- Negga, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and after a crisis of faith, him. lighting a spark that had been ry Keoghan, Jared Abraham- Irish bloodsucker Cassidy (Joseph Jesse was forcibly in- All of these conflicts (and dormant for years. Diane son. 2018. 116 min. Crime. Gilgun, “Misfits”) try to find God habited by “Genesis,” plenty more) are set to combust and hold Him to account without the offspring of a for- in the third season finale of any of them dying (or worse). bidden tryst between “Preacher,” and it would be a sin “Preacher” arrived at AMC after an angel and a devil. for any fan of smart, subversive, spending nearly two decades in de- Genesis gave Jesse a horror-inspired supernatural adven- velopment hell. The story was origi- pseudo-superpower ture to miss out. Catch the culmina- nally told in comic book format by known as the “Word of tion of season 3 when it airs Sunday, writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve God” that allowed him to Aug. 26, on AMC. Dillon. Their 66-issue run spanned compel people to do from 1995 to 2000 and was part of anything he com- an era of explicit comics targeted at manded. Jesse’s ex, mature readers. Ennis, realizing the the vi- Ruth฀Negga฀in฀ story’s screen potential, started “Preacher” shopping it as a script in 1998, be- fore he’d even concluded the narrative in its original medium. Obstacles abounded, and the screen adaptation passed through multiple hands until it finally made it into the clutches of an unlikely pair, who just happened to have ob- sessively coveted it for years.