Funny, messed-up, and outrageous: Julie Ann Emery explains what sets AMC's 'Preacher' apart
At this point, the entire season 3 of 'Preacher' feels like a build-up to this week's penultimate episode, which has not only packed on some (literally) mindblowing action but also a narrative that continues to get wilder. Just when it felt like Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) might actually have lost his soul along with the voice of Genesis, the wildly dark AMC comedy treated fans to a one-off dual between the preacher and the grotesque Allfather.
Funny, messed-up, and twisted, the face-off ends with Jesse having an upper hand over the abominable head of Grail, with the latter getting disembodied into a pile of guts. In one of the most graphic moments from the series, in fact, it transpired that the vial of Jesse's soul was hidden, out of all the places, in the Allfather's buttocks. There are ample hints to the bottled tension in this episode - ironically titled 'Schwanzkopf'. Both figuratively and literally, in the sense that Jesse and gang are fighting adversaries in constricted spaces, whether it's at the Grail HQ, aboard the bus to Hell, or in the vampire quarters.
