So I am a fundamentalist about the Bible, as in 35 years teaching Sunday School. I appreciate very much the efforts to make The Word more accessible and engaging among non-church-goers. So if it takes a little off-record soap to enlarge the audience, okay. The mood of the series is fine. They appropriately portray Jesus as a laid back, caring miracle-worker who holds power from The Lord. His humanity and good but humble spirit is the biggest asset of the series. The other characters, Biblical or not, are adequately played (Nicodemus being the best). My two biggest complaints: 1) this appears to be so popular that the pressure is and has doubtless been on to stretch, so there is alot of filler and some episodes with very little substance, and 2) I appreciate broadening the Bible to include things that could have happened to the characters but aren't told, but I object to important things that couldn't have happened under any circumstances, or would be recorded if they did happen (like Jesus and John the Baptist's meeting as one of several examples). Give me $10M and a good crew and I'll go out and film the Book of Mark from beginning to end, including acting out the parables, word for word. And there's no reason why that wouldn't be entertaining enough.
Review of The Chosen
