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What we learn from the first episode of The Exorcist

Aired Friday night on FOX, we could see the first episode of The Exorcist, free adaptation of the novel by William Peter Blatty and these are the information that we unveiled.

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Aired Friday night on FOX, we could see the first episode of The Exorcist, free adaptation of the novel by William Peter Blatty and these are the information that we unveiled.

When we think The Exorcist, one inevitably thinks of the version of William Friedkin with Linda Blair and Max Von Sydow in which the young Regan MacNeil is possessed by the demon Pazuzu. What the public knows less is that the 1973 film is actually based on the book of the same name by William Peter Blatty out a few years earlier. With its TV series, FOX adapts the eponymous book and hopes to renew the license, which was lost after the first part. Nevertheless, although it is very close to the revival with this great first episode full of tension and terror, we are still far away from the book for the little we could see in his 45-minute episode.

The history of the new Exorcist

As the initial work Blatty, the TV series is about to show us the duality between Karras father and father Merryn here respectively renamed father Tomasand father Marcus, two priests to drastically opposite methods that will have to unite to face the evil hanging over the Rance family. Father Tomas, Karras as in the version of Friedkin's a bit puzzled, lost his faith and his beliefs until he meets the devil, pure evil and the father Marcus in such Merryn younger, saw from the country. He faced many demons and knows he should not make concessions to the face and as Constantine, we must often use extreme methods to achieve his ends. As for the Rance family we do not know much yet for the time on it. A father a little off its pumps running haywire, a teenager who survived a car accident in which she lost her boyfriend, a little believer mother and lost in the middle of it and in the middle a lambda teen seeking to live life normally.

Casey Rance de la série The Exorcist de la Fox

But where we expected a reading of the book Putting aside the license created by Friedkin in 1973, it is not. At one point in the episode, the father Tomas Exorcism by searching on a search engine falls among others, in the middle of photo real exorcism as that of Anneliese Michel, a news article about the death of two people in Georgetown in the famous staircase that skirted the house of MacNeil in the 1973 film.

As for the episode itself, the director skillfully launching a voltage from the first minutes of the series that does not empty all along this first episode. It does not go a minute without perpetual tension and the apotheosis of all this is the terror that emanates from the last episode and the first cliffhangers that finally shows the face of the devil, setting the tone for future episodes so this first season.

Le père Marcus affronte le père Tomas dans la série The Exorcist de la Fox

What next for the series?

But one of the downsides that arise early concerns the rest of the season. Once Tomas father and father Marcus have gotten rid of the demon that rots the life of the Rance family, what will happen? In the License Exorcist, Regan MacNeil who does not remember his possession at the end of the first film recalls her exorcism in the second through hypnosis and returns Pazuzu at the same time while in the third film, this is a serial killer who is central to the plot of the film. But Tomas father and Marcus father they form a sort of league of divine vigilantes like the Justice League Dark with Constantine to face demons throughout the US area, destroying the tension and the principle of the license made its success or unlikely she will stop at the end of a season that promises to be intense despite a slow start on Fox, the fault of a few niche dating in the United States? Anyway, it is really too early to talk about now. The series is still in its infancy and promises a show like nightmarish lived viewers in the years 70/80 in the discovery of the film.

Wait & See.

Angela Rance de la série The Exorcist de la Fox
Le père Marcus de la série The Exorcist de la Fox


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