That’s after the show included a graphic sex scene depicting Jesus Christ having sex with a woman on the night of The Last Supper; though they’re shown in various positions only in silhouette, there’s a lot of pretty descriptive talk about what they’re doing.
The episode also saw Custer meet Jesus’ 25th great-grandson, Humperdido, who promptly responded by peeing all over his face, with the Grail’s attempts to keep Jesus’ bloodline pure having unfortunately resulted in severe inbreeding.
The latest episode of Preacher, currently on season 2, has received a (probably entirely expected) backlash.
If this is a signal of what it aspires to become, we will rally Christians against it.”