New Constantine Show

 
I'm doing a hell of a lot of these new show spot lights recently. Well what can I say, I've been watching a lot of new shows recently.

So John Constantine here is an exorcist/demon hunter. One night some years ago in the UK, he really fucked his job up and got a young girl killed and sentence to damnation. Understandably, he's upset about this. He was spending time in a psych hospital trying to deal with his issues when an old friend of his called him out of his retirement.

The plot of the first episode sends him to the U.S. to save the daughter of an old friend. For some reason this daughter is being targeted by a demon who would like to see her dead. Constantine shows up, along with his taxi driver friend (who is surprisingly resilient) and of course sorts this demon out.

What I like most about this show is the main character's attitude. His speech is quite thoroughly revealing of his British roots, both in terminology he uses, and his accent. I do like his style though, sort of like "Fine I guess I'll go out and fight the demons of the underworld. Someone has to." Though he does have some motivation hinted at other than trying to deal with his guilt for failing the little girl.

So far I'm interested. I am very curious to learn more about the taxi driver as he's very clearly not a standard human. I do think the daughter will be an important character as well. I would expect something of a begrudging devil slaying duo of her and Constantine.

So I'll be watching at least one or two more episodes. Hopefully this turns out well. I have no idea if this is a faithful to the original story telling or not. A. I haven't seen enough to know. B. I never read this comic series so I'd have no way of knowing anyway.