B+Season 2The Exorcist narrows its scope in a promising season premiereDan Caffrey9/29/17 11:33pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkGiven the pedigree of the actors, the Rance family was never going to stick around long. And by the end of The Exorcist…
B+Season 1The usual tricks are still compelling to watch on The ExorcistDan Caffrey12/17/16 8:08amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen Father Tomas finally drives the demon Pazuzu out of Angela, it’s through a mixture of theme and methodology we’ve…
BSeason 1Angela has a victory lap—not a tantrum—on the season’s penultimate ExorcistDan Caffrey12/10/16 12:49amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“162” is easily the most Angela-centric episode of The Exorcist. To be clear, that’s Angela the vehicle for Pazuzu, not…
A-Season 1“Time to give the people what they want” on The ExorcistDan Caffrey11/19/16 1:17amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhile The Exorcist has shown several failed and successful exorcisms so far—probably more than all of the films…
BSeason 1The Exorcist starts to move—perhaps a little too fastDan Caffrey11/12/16 10:29amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe Exorcist creator Jeremy Slater was smart to blow open the world created by William Peter Blatty. Keeping a large…
B-Season 1The Exorcist obsesses over the past, yet also ignores itDan Caffrey11/05/16 12:35amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOne of the strongest elements of the original Exorcist (novel and film) is the maternal devotion of Chris MacNeil.…
BSeason 1The Exorcist reneges on a promise, but drops a game-changing bombshellDan Caffrey10/22/16 1:38amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIs it fair to let a TV show’s PR inform a review? Because after “Through My Most Grievous Fault,” I’m wondering if the…
BSeason 1The Exorcist gets ready for the main course with a mini-exorcismDan Caffrey10/14/16 10:06pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkExorcist creator and Executive Producer Jeremy Slater has promised big things for the series’ fifth episode next week,…
B+Season 1The horror on The Exorcist works best when it’s not ambiguousDan Caffrey10/07/16 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn 1973, part of the beauty of the original Exorcist and the William Peter Blatty novel it was adapted from was a…
C+Fox’s Exorcist pilot undermines itself at every turnKatie Rife9/23/16 12:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkForty years after its release, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist remains one of the top-grossing R-rated films of all…
