In Annville, Texas, Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) is the son of a preacher who has, after a life of crime, taken up his father's profession. He is not very good at it. In fact, he is inclined to quit. His former girl friend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), wants him to join her on a quest for vengeance. Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) is a vampire who fell out of a plane and ended up as a handyman in the church. Meanwhile, something has arrived on earth and tried to inhabit religious leaders. Every leader so inhabited has exploded, including Scientology's Tom Cruise! The night before his final sermon, Jesse is drunk in the church when the strange force enters him. As he is both criminal and holy man, he does not explode. Genesis, as it is called, is the offspring of an angel and a demon and grants Jesse the power to command. If Jesse says jump, you jump. He's like Kilgrave from Jessica Jones, only not evil. Well, only half evil. It gets interesting when two angels arrive to reclaim Genesis.
Preacher is a strange mash up of genres. There is horror (with SO much blood), crime, drama, and paranormal. There is also plenty of dark comedy. The local villain is Odin Quincannon (Jackie Earle Haley), owner of Quincannon Meat & Power. He runs a packing house that also powers the town with methane from cow dung. There is also a historical tale that intersperses the first season. A laconic and imposing man in the 1880s rides to a town located in the same place as Annville and bad things happen. How that ties to the current storyline is not explained until the season finale. Wow. Certainly entertaining. Thumbs up.
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