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Preacher and Outcast lift faith and fear from comics

Cooper plays a man of great power and questionable faith in AMC’s Preacher

IN A DUSTY, RUN-DOWN CHURCH IN TINY ANNVILLE, Texas, a man of the cloth named Jesse Custer tells his flock the world is falling apart: “And you know what? It’s all your fault. You’ve turned your back on the Lord. Your despair has caused you to lose faith, embrace false idols. But these idols, these things, they won’t save you.” The parishioners look scared, and they should. Their salvation depends on Jesse, and he’s possessed.

Preacher, the new AMC drama produced by frequent collaborators Seth

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