AVClub: It’s no secret that pilot episodes are notoriously difficult to execute, but Hand Of God has the added challenge of being part of Amazon’s—let’s call it “unique”—original programming model. Made last year, the pilot—about Ron Perlman’s corrupt judge Pernell Harris imagining (or is he?) that he’s being directed on a quest for justice by the voice of God— had to not only introduce the central premise and set up the interrelationships among the series’ expansive cast, but also potentially stand alone, since Amazon users’ feedback would at least party decide its eventual fate going forward. Series creator Ben Watkins assembled a promising cast, certainly—apart from the ever-imposing Perlman, Hand Of God boasts The Wire’s Andre Royo as ingratiatingly bent Mayor “Bobo” (not “Bubbles”) Boston, Dana Delany as Harris’ knowing, steely wife Crystal, and Garrett Dillahunt plying his glowering menace as K.D., a born-again ex-con who becomes Harris’ violent right hand. Film director Marc Forster handles directing duties, lending the pilot his Oscar-nominated cred—with the formidable Perlman as subject, Forster is especially adept at using the hulking Harris to dominate the frame.
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