The Exorcist - TV series

Anyone else watching? I haven't watched episode 3 yet, but I found the pilot intriguing and the second episode downright great. I love the intimacy and familiarity of the home possession and the expanded world beyond the Rance household that's crawling with demonic influence as well. Not to mention the performances, which are all pitch perfect so far. Geena Davis is still stuck with the same issue that plagued the first few episodes of Stranger Things for Winona Ryder (concerned mother is very concerned and frazzled), but she's so wonderful to watch, it doesn't bother me. More than anything, it's also scary as hell with some great effects (the attic sequence in the pilot and the finale of episode two stick out). I'm very curious to see where the show goes, but I'm 100% on board.

Over at AV Club they're only doing whole-season-overview coverage, but the commentariat have suggested that this might be the second coming of HANNIBAL: the smart, well-made genre thriller that brings prestige-channel quality to major network prime time, but is a little too weird for Mittel Amerika to grasp. (If nothing else, "Exorcist" is at least not as sexually complex as the often-queer Lecter show was, one thing suspected to have driven away procedural fans.)

Just caught up and binged all the episodes and boy, do I love it. I didn't expect it to be this great. I was initially wishing that the didn't name this show The Exorcist so it didn't have to live in the shadow of the film, but now that they revealed the twist (which I loved, even if the timeline is a little murky and out of character for Chris), I can't wait to see where it goes. Hopefully they don't go too Pazuzu-heavy.

Despite thinking, "The demon is after Angela," several times during the episode, I never considered she might be Regan!!! I loved it!

I think they have done a very good job with it thus far and the acting is quite solid.

They should have given it a better time slot. They buried it on Friday nights and few people even know about it. There was very little advertising. It really is fairly well done with some seasoned actors but I believe they are not renewing it.

TV Guide gave it a cheers on their back page this week saying they liked the reveal of the mother's past. I had just read a few weeks ago that ratings were very low.

I love these last minute shockers!

Oh wow, did not see that end coming. I kind of figured Pazuzu/Captain Howdy/Salesman had transferred to Angela, but really wasn't anticipating such a swift dispatch of Chris. OR THE EYE ROLL. It is a pretty tragic end for a character from the horror canon who I actually respect. The Chris MacNeil of the book and movie were such beacons of strength and love, it was hard to watch, even if the show's revelations about her proved less than flattering.


JerseyGirl is absolutely dead on. Geena Davis is about to have a great deal of fun with these last few episodes. How many are there in the season? 10 or 13? I really hope it gets renewed, but will forever be glad this season was so fantastic on its own.

Updated On: 11/22/16 at 11:41 AM

I did enjoy this a lot. It was only 10 episodes which makes me think it was planned for FX or FXX. Even if FOX doesn't renew it, I would think even moving it to cable would retain the viewer base and pick up more viewers. It would be a lot more intense without commercials.

Geena Davis did look like she was having a "devilish" time; the whole cast and special effects were very, very, good.

The way it ended, just makes me think it will be an anthology. They did a good mysterious job picking up the Regan storyline, but how can they do that every season with the one family?

Steve C. said: "I did enjoy this a lot. It was only 10 episodes which makes me think it was planned for FX or FXX. Even if FOX doesn't renew it, I would think even moving it to cable would retain the viewer base and pick up more viewers. It would be a lot more intense without commercials.

Geena Davis did look like she was having a "devilish" time; the whole cast and special effects were very, very, good.

The way it ended, just makes me think it will be an anthology. They did a good mysterious job picking up the Regan storyline, but how can they do that every season with the one family?



" I hope you right. Instead of losing steam over the season like AHS, this got better and better. Most intense show on TV this season!