Season 3 of 'Preacher' just concluded and the whole thing was very good. S1 and later parts of S2 very much had pacing issues, but now I am really glad to have stuck with it. This was all the stylized, surreal, violent fun that I ever hoped for. Ascended from B-Tier to A-Tier television.

Three months ago I was not that excited when I saw that first new episode pop up in my watchlist. I was debating myself about if I should really do the weekly watch this time around again, rather than waiting and listening for reviews and potentially saving myself from a lot of disappointment. A few weeks later I was more excited about watching the next episode than about Better Call Saul even.

It already started out better than expected, although it had me worried about the characters kinda being stuck at a place again with one or two baddies with a hint of menacing mystery... not again please. I think it was around episode 4 that I suddenly had this feeling of "Am I really watching the same show still? This is on an entirely new level!".

The direction was suddenly amazing, the protagonists suddenly had great plot lines, with goals and challenges which are really about who they are, then progressing, but true to their personality. And on top of that we CONSTANTLY get new rich crazy ideas and characters introduced. We go from SOFT SPOILER voodoo fight club, to druggy vampire diaries, to biblical john wick, all the while the worlds' and non-worlds' most powerful figures are getting involved in the games.

Last night's finale is seeing praise from fans, and I agree that it had good action and real satisfying conclusions to the plot lines, but from this season even this does not stand out to me as much as the large middle chunk of extremely well directed, well paced, colorful episodes that were really about the characters.

Submitted August 27, 2018 at 08:10PM by thekonzo https://ift.tt/2NpYBjO