The sexual content is far less than most people realize as DC was always fairly prudish about that sort of thing. It's mostly tits and described/implied sex acts.

Fake Fan Moment :P

Just spent the last few months re-reading all of Ennis' work.

Love the appearance of Hitler, if only for allowing me to indulge in an inside joke at a message board I frequent where we put Hitler's name inside spoiler tags.

Season One spent too much time in one place, although I think it was a smart move to move the Salvation stuff forward and give a bit more time to Annville (which had one drunken tirade in bar in the comic)… but they should have moved on after a handful of episodes.

So far, I'm thinking this is the perfect way to go forward. Ennis has said that he put pretty much every type of story he wanted to tell into Preacher, so the whole thing is a crazy mash-up of various pop culture tropes as filtered through Ennis. It was a kitchen sink drama, it was a gross-out comedy, it was a…

Without spoiling things, in the comic no one ever manages to stop The Saint… which ultimately becomes very important to the plot. The TV show is on it's own path, so maybe that gets changed, but The Saint is more akin to a gun and just because he's currently pointed at Jesse doesn't mean he always will be.

When it comes to The Voice Of God, Garth Ennis said he was always forgetting to use it. I think he only put it in because it was a super-power kind of thing and DC was still revolving almost exclusively around super-heroes when it was created… same thing happened with Ennis' other DC book at this time, Hitman, whose…

The problem I have with it is it leans into the comedy too much to be properly good. There's some highly entertaining jokes along the way, but the underlying material is an absurd tragedy not a comedy of errors. By leaning into the jokes, it undercuts the human tragedy of what's happening to the soldiers and civilians…

Then we have the Chief/Not-Chief in a sort of limbo, where she desperately trying to affect the narrative, but the narrative refuses to recognize her as part of the story… just as all the automated devices fail to register her attempts.

My take on this season is that it's all about people accidentally wandering into the wrong story, while the story refuses to acknowledge that. It's much more a comedy of errors than the previous two seasons (or the movie). The LA story sort of spells it out that we often have these meaningful moments that don't…

I like to say that failure is usually a group effort. While every so often, there's one person (or one entity) which is responsible for the great bulk of the blame, much more often the problem is a result of a bunch of individual decisions by multiple people. The original design of the bees was exploitable but…

I kind of thing this is a minor masterpiece, thanks largely to masterful pacing.

Again, not so sure being judgmental is the point. Rashida Jones, who co-wrote, the episode was interviewed here about it and the vibe I got was she was exploring how easy it is to get obsessed with other people's opinions about you.

I'm someone who rolls my eyes at science fiction that falls in the Luddite trap.. and I really don't get the vibe off of Black Mirror.

Perhaps the most plausible of Black Mirror's futures. While I don't see eugenics making a huge comeback to make the genetic freaks aspect plausible, I could definitely see some governments using perception altering tech to demonize their enemies. One needs only look at history, propaganda, and the military's success…

Amusingly, the next episode kind of messes with my three categories thing. More of a social commentary in nightmare clothing.

I think The Waldo Moment is the only one (at least until this point in the release… I haven't watched the next two yet) which doesn't really fit the Black Mirror template as the tech has nothing to do with the satire.,, but close enough.

Wonderfully beautiful episode that made me cry.

I'd put this one just above National Anthem (the one Black Mirror episode I didn't like) and The Waldo Moment (which I just barely liked). So far the episodes closest to present-day technology are my least favorite.