Preacher Recap: “Gonna Hurt “

Season 3 / Episode 3, “Gonna Hurt” / AMC Episode three goes hard in the paint! It opens with Tulip feeling guilty as hell for letting The Grail keep Jesse’s soul. So guilty, in fact, she drives all the way back to NOLA Grail headquarters with the choppa on deck! This ain’t that new school John Wick tactical pressure points and MMA holds. Nah, she came through on that early 90s Tango & Cash, maneuvering the whip in traffic holding the nina in hand type vengeance, pumping thrash metal through the speakers.

Tulip makes this whole dramatic entrance, only to find The Grail closed up shop and left nothing behind but business cards, ethernet cables, and that big ass picture of Jesus. Defeated and on the way back to Angelville, the car radio is taken over by static, then jazz. Tulip checks the rearview and sees Man-Dog (aka God) on a Harley with a trashy blonde. God pulls up and tells Tulip in few words that she’s a screw-up, her daddy’s a screw-up, and that the “curse of the O’Hares” is by His design. Really he thought he was being godly, but he came off like a condescending dick. He gently strokes her cheek and tells her to “not despair.” Tulip shrugs that shit off and walks after him like he ain’t shit.

Tulip gives him a verbal one for and sets it off on Him. God, in turn, goes super Saiyan level 3, and dead blasts her with a basic Hadouken. Tulip hits the back of the car, eats that like a champ, get’s up, and promises to kick God’s ass. This one might be my favorite opening…