Television critic Glenn Garvin is thrilled at the arrival of AMC’s Preacher this weekend, but much less happy with All the Way, HBO’s look at the first year of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.
On Preacher:
Television these days is littered with comic-book adaptations, from the superheroes dominating The CW’s primetime schedule to AMC’s own impressive stable of post-apocalyptic zombies. But no show has aped the comics style as authentically as Preacher, with its garish violence and cunning ability to cram visual jokes into practically every frame.
And on All the Way:
The result is a pockmarked hodgepodge of a narrative that fails to provide the context that made Johnson’s civil-rights efforts so stunning (prior to becoming president, Johnson had spent a decade as the architect of Southern Democrat strategy to gut countless civil-rights bills). More omissions follow until the entire production turns into a kind of political blooper reel in which Johnson commits the United States to a decade of war in South Vietnam in a two-sentence, over-the-shoulder comment to the secretary of defense as they walk down a crowded hallway.
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