History Series / TheExorcist

* YourCheatingHeart: Father Tomas has been flirting with a married woman. [[spoiler:It turns out her husband has been outright cheating on her for months.]]

* BadassGay: Father Marcus, though he is a priest and [[ButNotTooGay presumably celibate]].
--> '''Father Marcus:''' Then why torture Casey?
--> '''Demon:''' You can have her. Though, I didn't think that girls were your flavor.
** After [[spoiler: Casey's exorcism]], he shares a meaningful glance with a handsome man in a bar.
** During season 2 he shares a kiss with another man. However a flashback in the same season shows him in a close relationship with the nun Mouse putting him more into AmbiguouslyBi territory.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The demon is possessing Casey, not Kat.

The series premiered on September 23, 2016 and has aired two seasons.

Caught in the middle of the two priests is the Rance family, who are members of Tomas' parish. On the surface, they're a normal, American family, but all is not as it seems in this household. The patriarch, Henry Rance (Alan Ruck), is recovering from a traumatic injury. Eldest daughter Katherine (Brianne Howey) has become a recluse who refuses to leave her room. Her younger sister, Casey (Hannah Kasulka), thinks she's hearing strange noises coming from inside the walls. And mother Angela (Geena Davis) believes there is something in the house, a demonic presence, growing stronger by the day. Desperate, she begs Father Tomas for help, unwittingly setting the naive young priest on a collision course with Father Marcus. Separately, each faces an insurmountable task, but together they become the Rances' only hope against an evil force that has been mobilizing for centuries.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: Angela Rance is actually Regan [=MacNeil=] from the original movie.]]

-->'''Angela''': You want me? Come and get me.

** Angela Rance: [[spoiler: as we learn she is Regan Macneil, the possessed girl from the movie, who changed her name to escape her past and her mother]].

** This character is rarely onscreen without the one person who talks to them. When they are, other characters don't see them--except for Verity, who looks very upset and walks away quickly. It's easy to read this as jealousy, but [[spoiler: she's actually disturbed to see Andy apparently talking to himself.]]

The series premiered on September 23, 2016 with 10 episodes. It's due to have a second season in 2017.

* Foreshadowing: The groundwork for [[spoiler: Grace's]] true nature is subtle but always there.

** During season 2 he shares a kiss with another man.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:How season 1 ends: Angela/Regan is saved by Tomas and she herself is finally able to beat Pazuzu '''to death''', ending her torment from him and she and her family escape to the country to try to live a normal life. The downside is Casey will learn to deal with her SurvivorsGuilt, Kat has ''another'' knee injury (probably killing whatever small chance she had of ever dancing professionally again), and due to Pazuzu ''breaking her back'', Angela is now wheelchair bound. Meanwhile, Marcus is able to save Bennett and himself from almost being inducted into the Friars and able to prevent the assassination of the Pope by killing Father Simon, but the Friars are still powerful and Maria Walters has finally become intergrated with a demon, implying she now will take control of the cult]].

* SuicideIsShameful: In the first season finale, [[spoiler:Father Thomas breaks the vision designed to goad him into suicide when he realizes it would condemn his soul to hell]].
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In the third episode of the second season, a woman sprinkles sacremental bread on almond tarts causing the Friars of the Ascension to vomit blood and die.

* SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay: [[spoiler: Demon!Nikki]] makes the mistake of [[PapaWolf insulting Andy's kids]], leading Andy to realize that whatever he's talking to, it is ''not'' [[spoiler: his wife.]]

* CreepyChild: Grace, Andy's youngest, has extreme agoraphobia and anxiety, so she has a "brave face" she puts on that's essentially a bag with eyeholes and some cute ribbons. It is ''really creepy'' when she suddenly pops out from behind a door wearing it. [[spoiler: Turns out "she" is actually a demon.]]

** Andy and Rose's almost-sex scene gets rapidly ''un''sexy once [[spoiler: the demon as Nikki sticks its oar in, first by wrapping its fingers around Rose's throat, then by cuddling up to her and ''suggesting a threesome''.]]

** During season 2 he kisses another man.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler: Or should we say, ''un''comfortable? Throughout the series, Pazuzu continuously changes appearances; from being a simple man in a business suit, to [[MythologyGag his disguise to Regan as "Captain Howdy" ]], and in his scenes in the first season finale, a charred humanoid...''thing'' with long fingers ending in points.]]

* HotForPreacher: Jessica

The series premiered on September 23, 2016.

'''Pazuzu''': The only thing that we've ever wanted: that which is rightfully ours. We were His first creations. Did you know that? We were loyal and perfect in every way. And do you know what God did? God got bored. He got bored with our perfection. So He created Man, mortal and ugly, and... and then He built them a sandbox, and He filled it with tangible and sensual delights. Delights that we could never feel or taste or experience. He created paradise, and he handed it over to a pack of primates rutting in the dirt. Well, this world was meant for us. And we're gonna take it back.