I wasn’t sure where the series was headed with old Viktor (appropriately played by The Wire‘s Paul Ben-Victor) but I have to say they shocked me here.
We’re going to go ahead and jump to the end of the episode with this bombshell, because holy crap.
Also worth pointing out that the lines he delivers in his audition to play God are nearly identical to what God says in the Preacher comic when he returns to Heaven.
Preacher Episode 2.04 Annotations: Who is Viktor? Welcome back brothers and sisters to our weekly feature, the Preacher Book Club, where we talk about the latest episode of AMC‘s Preacher, dissecting the episode at hand, annotating the changes made from the Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon comic book series and attempting to predict about what will be coming next.