{"id":136476,"date":"2018-05-17T07:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136476"},"modified":"2018-05-21T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:48:23","slug":"how-preacher-got-adapted-for-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/how-preacher-got-adapted-for-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"How “Preacher” got adapted for TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

As avid watchers of the past two seasons on AMC, and waiting this next one with bated breath — and as someone who’s reread the source material a dozen times — a lot of this article rings true. I don’t agree with all of the decisions Rogen, et al., have made (S.2 tended to wander a bit), but their principle approach has been sound, and the stuff they have<\/i> brought in from the original comics has been quite well done, and a lot of the stuff they have left out — the more mean-spirited chunks of character treatment and plotline — have been dispensable.<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea if the showrunners know where they are going with all of this — if there’s a final scene they are driving toward, as Ennis was. I hope so, because that, in part, is what redeems the story and the bad decisions the characters make in it (and gives the final volume such impact). But I’m certainly ready for the next season to begin.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/a>
\nHow Seth Rogen Made Preacher Safe for TV — Vulture<\/a><\/span>
\nBasically, he and his partners changed everything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As avid watchers of the past two seasons on AMC, and waiting this next one with bated breath — and as someone who’s reread the source material a dozen times — a lot of this article rings true. 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