Exorcist 2017 Today

Let’s be honest: when Fox announced a television adaptation of The Exorcist in 2016, most of us rolled our eyes. A network TV sequel to the most terrifying film ever made? Starring a guy from Daredevil ? It sounded like sacrilege.

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. exorcist 2017

Father Marcus is a trauma machine—a man who performed an exorcism as a child that killed his own mother. Father Tomas is a skeptic forced into the supernatural. Their relationship is part Lethal Weapon , part Doubt . When they pray, it sounds like they’re begging. Let’s be honest: when Fox announced a television

I watched that at 2 AM. I did not sleep. Low ratings. Surprise. It sounded like sacrilege