Light a candle. Pour some wine. Say a Hail Mary. And give this unholy masterpiece your time.
But for those of us who stuck around? Season 2 (set in a group home for troubled boys) was even better. More intimate. More brutal. Featuring John Cho as a father desperate to save his son from a demon that feeds on grief. The Exorcist (2017) is not a guilty pleasure. It is a straight-up pleasure. It respects the original film while building something new: a serialized horror novel about the cost of belief.
The Exorcist was too slow for the Walking Dead crowd, too Catholic for secular viewers, and too grim for network TV. It asked, "What if faith is real, but God is indifferent?" That’s not a tagline for a primetime slot.
Light a candle. Pour some wine. Say a Hail Mary. And give this unholy masterpiece your time.
But for those of us who stuck around? Season 2 (set in a group home for troubled boys) was even better. More intimate. More brutal. Featuring John Cho as a father desperate to save his son from a demon that feeds on grief. The Exorcist (2017) is not a guilty pleasure. It is a straight-up pleasure. It respects the original film while building something new: a serialized horror novel about the cost of belief.
The Exorcist was too slow for the Walking Dead crowd, too Catholic for secular viewers, and too grim for network TV. It asked, "What if faith is real, but God is indifferent?" That’s not a tagline for a primetime slot.
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