The Exorcist
Series, 2016, Regan MacNeil, Set in Chicago, decades later
The Exorcist is #6 of 7 in release order and #6 of 7 in chronological order in the The Exorcist.
The story
Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.
The Exorcist recap
The Exorcist (2016) brings two priests to a Chicago family whose daughter is being taken by a demon, a case that leads back to the original 1973 possession. Jeremy Slater created it for Fox, which aired two seasons of 10 episodes each from 2016 to 2017. Father Tomas Ortega (Alfonso Herrera), a young parish priest, is visited by Angela Rance (Geena Davis), who believes something is in her house; her husband Henry (Alan Ruck) is recovering from a brain injury and her daughters are Kat (Brianne Howey) and Casey (Hannah Kasulka). Tomas teams with Father Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels), a veteran exorcist at odds with the Church, and they find Casey possessed and a hidden plot inside the Church itself. Angela is revealed to be Regan MacNeil, with Sharon Gless as an older Chris MacNeil. Season two moves the priests to an island off Seattle, where Andy Kim (John Cho) runs a foster home for troubled children. It continues from the 1973 film and ignores the other sequels.
The Exorcist ending explained
The Exorcist ends with "Unworthy", the season two finale, in which Andy asks Marcus to shoot him so the demon cannot jump into Tomas, and Marcus does. Rose Cooper adopts the foster children, Tomas leaves with Mouse (Zuleikha Robinson) as his new partner, Father Bennett wakes possessed, and Marcus finally hears God's voice. Fox cancelled the series in May 2018 without resolving those threads.
Where to watch The Exorcist
The Exorcist isn't on a US streaming service right now. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 7.9/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, before The Exorcist: Believer.
- Chronological order: after The Exorcist III, before The Exorcist: Believer.
What to watch before The Exorcist
In release order, the essentials before The Exorcist (2016) are The Exorcist (1973), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Exorcist III (1990), Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005).
Cast
- Alfonso Herrera as Father Tomas Ortega
- Ben Daniels as Father Marcus Brennan
- Kurt Egyiawan as Father Bennett
- Hannah Kasulka as Casey Rance
- Geena Davis as Angela Rance
- John Cho as Andrew Kim
- Brianne Howey as Katherine Rance
- Li Jun Li as Rose Cooper
- Brianna Hildebrand as Verity
- Alan Ruck as Henry Rance
- Sharon Gless as Chris MacNeil
- Beatrice Kitsos as Harper
Created by Jeremy Slater.