The first season was extremely good, with moments of extraordinary horror way beyond the rolled-back white eyes and body contortions (though these were also done very well). There are a few meetings between R and CB but one in particular stands out as one of the best scenes in the horror genre I have ever seen.S2 is also good though not as good as S1.I am devastated that this show is cxl'd, I have been expecting a S3 all year, hoping the story would lead us back to Regan and her family.Geena Davis, Ben Daniel and Alfonso Ferrera are phenomenal, as are all the cast in both seasons. BRING IT BACK!!!

While this TV adaptation of "The Exorcist" isn't as horrific as the movie, it's still impressive (and violent). The main character is a priest who comes across a number of possessed individuals. The series throws in a few surprises along the way; it's the sort of show that you feel as if you have to binge-watch. It strikes me as the sort of show that they have fun making; a devilishly good time, you might say.Like "American Horror Story" and "Stranger Things", it shows that a series can find the right balance between intense violence and a good plot if effort gets put into it. Along with Alfonso Herrera and Ben Daniels in the lead roles, good support comes from Geena Davis and Alan Ruck in the first season, and John Cho in the second. I recommend the series.

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.

Episode 2.5 on November 3, 2017 ruined a really good show. When the defrocked priest started making out with a man I immediately stopped watching and removed it from my favorites list. I can better deal with a priest committing adultery like in season 1. I can deal with the teenage girl orphan being lesbian. Demons and wicked, evil, satanic stuff is fine for a fictional show but a homosexual priest is a story line that is just not necessary. Maybe if I read a review that says he struggled internally with the temptation but didn't give in, I'll finish watching the season and what comes next. But I'm guessing he is going to love it and embrace it. More normalization of homosexuality.