Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

SnoopyStyle Henry (Alan Ruck) and Angela Rance (Geena Davis) have two lovely daughters, Casey and Kat. Despite Henry's difficulties, the family seems perfect on the outside. Father Tomas Ortega is their priest. Kat starts to become withdrawn. Meanwhile, Father Marcus Keane is working as an exorcist under the direction of Father Bennett. The second season has another family with foster kids from various backgrounds under attack. The priests return to do another exorcism.This is solid work for network fare. The first season does a nice rolling boil that climax with some crazy exorcist action. There are some interesting reveals and good surprises. These are good actors. It's all very intriguing. The second season takes it to another family. I don't mind the new family but some aspects of the first season family should have been brought along. One or two of the girls could join the priests in their demon hunt. There is an appeal to doing an anthology series but on the other hand, it's as if the first season counts for nothing. I had next to no expectations with this series at the start but it ended up giving some intriguing secondary addition to the horror classic.

davidjskeen-53445 Season 1 was quite lame as far as the possessed angle goes, it should have been far more violent and the demons far more realistic. There was no real bad language, no real gruesome demonic possessions, no multi foreign language as there should of been. All in all LAME covers it. Season 2 is far worse, it flicks from one story line to another that you cannot keep track. It looks like it has been thrown together for a quick release supposedly because they thought they had a hit on there hands, but it is nothing short of dire. In the middle of the storyline you get a priest having a proper tongue kiss with a male Wildlife and Fisheries Office, a proper Broke Back Mountain moment that has no place in the show. The acting is very good but they are let down by a poor story line and dire script.

johnnyrj Religion is a psychological band-aid for people too mentally weak to deal with their own mortality. I get that some folks need it and that there are some genuinely religious/spiritual people out there, but as a whole it's difficult to take any of it seriously. I know because I had Catholicism forced on me from birth and attended Catholic school for 17 years before finally waking up to the realization that it's mostly just a control mechanism disguised as "holy" doctrines meant to teach us spiritual guidance. Their gods forbid you think for yourself.Where was religion at the dawn of man when we started to walk upright or the aliens intervened to speed up the process of evolution and manipulated our DNA so that we stopped clubbing each other over the head with sticks and stones and used nuclear weapons instead? The answer is, religion was nowhere. It's a man-made construct devised as a control mechanism to keep people in line rather than have complete and total chaos because the church is convinced that without it people wouldn't be able to think for themselves and figure out how to live a fruitful life free of murder, rape, and all the other awesome traits that make us human. Thankfully religions have taken a firm hold on society and none of that bad stuff exists. Oops!So to explain away the bad stuff the church conveniently invented a devil and sins. Sure. Why not? It scares the living crap out people who buy into the religious construct in the first place. What better way to keep children in line than terrorize them with the concept of hell? It'll be years before they are old enough to figure out it's all BS so milk it for all it's worth and hopefully they don't rebel to the point of *gasp* believing in freewill and start thinking for themselves.And it's not like anyone is using religion as an excuse to be an utter piece of crap as a human being 6 days out of the week. It's the perfect rubbing alcohol meets paint thinner to wash off the stains accumulated during the week through grotesque behavior that pretty much every Catholic practices because they know Sunday is always coming and they can "repent". So essentially their god forgives them every week for sucking at life. Convenient.Me? I'll pass on organized religions at this point. Like I said, I did the whole scene and it just didn't take because at some point I came to the realization that it just didn't seem plausible, on any level. Do what thou will, just don't hurt anyone else in the process.Oh right, the show. It's okay. It's missing all the elements from the movie that made people in the early 70's go running screaming into the streets. I suppose the acid helped. They were lucky they didn't get the director's cut of the movie back in the day otherwise they really would have lost it. The show doesn't have any of that stuff that gave the movie that punch and real horrifying aspect of the absurdity of religion, but it has a few redeeming qualities. The direction is good, the acting is good, the story is okay as long as you can swallow the concept of a god and a devil. It's a bit angsty for me with all the teenager stuff and it's obviously playing to that demographic as well as the religious audience, but it's not the worst thing on television. You could be watching evangelicals spew their nonsense instead.

The Couchpotatoes Even after 44 years the first movie The Exorcist still remains good. It didn't age bad like some other movies from that time. Linda Blair was outstanding with her performance playing the possessed. So I was very excited to start watching the series since it scored even more on IMDb. Plus there are a lot of positive reviews. Everything to get me more than excited. But after watching the first season I am deeply disappointed. I could have known from the beginning it wasn't going to be that great as it is shown on FOX. There is just not enough foul language to make this good. The possessed should speak in tongues and the only or at least majority of things she should say are abominable disrespectful words. There should be a mother s...ing d...s in hell and so on. But it's on FOX so none of that. Instead you get a very bad impression of evil tongue. It was really bad. Add on that the sometimes very bad acting and you get a bad show like this. I don't know where people saw great acting. They must have seen another show than me. Alan Ruck is the worst. But you also have Torrey Hanson playing the French speaking Cardinal Guillot. The guy is everything but French. I can know since it is my primary language. Why the hell would you just not find a French actor to play that role? Even that is to much to ask. And you would think that the special effects, since we are in 2017, should be great or at least better than in 1973, but no it's just average. Like this series, below average. I am not going to waste my time on a second season as there are so many good shows on TV. This one is clearly not one of them, despise of what the ratings on IMDb says or the positive reviews.