Alternative Character Interpretation: Was Gilbert Jax actually part of the break-out? He was too new to Hell to have any powers, too unstable to control, and had no useful skills of any kind. Sending him back would have been child's play if not for the Devil's interference. It's not hard to argue that the Devil let him go just to mess with Zeke.
Complete Monster: Hasdrabul Skaras, from "Slayer", was a ruthless Carthaginian warrior who delighted in Rape, Pillage, and Burn. After escaping from Hell, Skaras tries to form an alliance with Detective Ezekiel "Zeke" Stone, but when Zeke rebukes him, Skaras responds by going on a killing spree, during which he specifically targets the widows of police officers, using the victims' own blood to deface the scene of every murder with the Latin phrase "Vae victis" ("woe to the conquered"). During one confrontation with Zeke, Skaras threatens his wife, forces him to shoot a policeman, and leaves him to take the fall for all of the homicides. When Zeke manages to save one widow from him, Skaras kills the woman's elderly mother, and afterward viciously assaults Zeke's friend Father Horn.
In "It's a Helluva Life", the Devil accusing Zeke of imagining a "Saintly" life that could get him into heaven, and Zeke insists "I never said saintly." The joke here seems to be that Zeke (like most people) doesn't actually realize that anyone who goes to heaven is a "Saint." When a denomination declares someone a "Saint", it merely means that they believe there is proof that person is in heaven.
One of the items Zeke is given to accomplish his mission is $36.27, the amount of money in his pockets at the moment he was killed, the trick being that amount of cash is replenished each day; it's essentially his salary. Now just for fun, go grab a Bible and look up Ezekiel 36:27. We'll wait.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: As recently as 2008, a representative of Warner Home Video commented on the series.
"Despite the wonderful work of Peter Horton and John Glover, there are no plans at this time to release Brimstone."
Magnificent Bastard: The Devil himself is the one who manipulates hero Ezekiel "Zeke" Stone, into going to earth to reclaim 113 damned souls who fled hell, holding out the promise of a new hope of heaven over Stone's head. Throughout the series, the Devil is charming, witty and sarcastic, constantly monitoring events and arranging things to have Zeke return his quarry to hell while demonstrating a frightening amount of insight, while always teasing Zeke and pushing him to do his job. While playing Zeke constantly, the Devil's main interest is keeping the status quo, while always willing to welcome the new damned souls into his domain.
Values Dissonance: In "It's a Helluva Life" one of the crimes which the Devil accuses Zeke of is planting evidence on a drug dealer, resulting in his murder in prison. The Angel tells him that even cosmic law has "mitigating circumstances," and that the drug dealer would have killed a family by driving while high if Zeke had not acted. It's very unlikely that such a blatant abuse of power would have been shrugged off if the episode was made in the 2010s.
YMMV for the Novel
Trapped by Mountain Lions: The Harriman-Reverend Buck-Laura Hayward subplot ultimately has nothing to do with the main plot, beyond being started by it.
YMMV for the Movie
Americans Hate Tingle: The film was highly appreciated in Europe, but American critics everywhere disliked it, blaming the exploitation of violence and sex for effect.
Broken Aesop: The Reverend is meant to symbolize the hidden hypocrisy of Christianity, but he is such a mad and obvious villain that many people did not associate his crimes with his religious views directly, preferring to perceive him as an ordinary mentally ill person, who was also an Abusive Parent.
Is this an outstanding feminist film about the hell in which women lived in the 19th century, or is it a primitive anti-religious film that abuses violence and sex to shock a sensitive audience?
Was it justified that the Reverend is portrayed as a nigh-immortal maniac slasher killer, or was it an alien element that prevented the film from being taken seriously?
Captain Obvious Reveal: Did anyone doubt that Elizabeth was raped by her own father after she was insulted hearing a Parental Incest joke in the brothel?
Complete Monster: "The Reverend" is a stern, misogynistic, religiously-obsessed man who uses the Bible to justify his mistreatment of women. After physically and psychologically abusing his wife Anna for many years, ultimately leading to her suicide, the Reverend begins to lust after his daughter Joanna, intending to force her to marry him. When a friendly bandit sheltered by Joanna tries to stop him, the Reverend shoots him in the face with a cattle gun before dragging his daughter to his chambers to beat and rape her. Joanna escapes and finds a new home in a brothel, where the Reverend tracks her down many years later in an attempt to beat her back into submission to him. Joanna fights back and escapes again, but not before the Reverend stabs one of her best friends to death. After Joanna marries a new husband and becomes a mother, the Reverend once again finds her and proceeds to stalk Joanna's family, slaughtering the livestock, trying to turn her daughter against her, and murdering her husband by cutting open his stomach and strangling him with his own intestines. Joanna flees to her father-in-law's cabin in the mountains, during which journey the Reverend shoots and kills her young stepson. The Reverend proceeds to murder the old man as well before capturing, tying up, and beating both Joanna and her daughter, indicating that he intends to rape the little girl — his own granddaughter — as retribution for Joanna having spurned his perverted advances for so long.
Don't Shoot the Message: While the film received recognition as feminist, some women accused it of being overcrowded with Straw Misogynists and too primitive in its criticism of Christianity.
. We'll wait.