On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 8:37 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote:
> “7th Heaven” appears to be available on both Hulu and Paramount Plus, so > it’s not as buried as it could be. > > For that matter, “The Cosby Show” is still on Amazon Prime. > Fair enough. > > On Apr 27, 2021, at 8:11 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > This series is trending now, even though the first season was released a > couple years ago. The last time I found a piece of family friendly > television that wasn’t overly patronizing was “7th Heaven”, but due to > information leaked from a supposedly confidential therapy session which > axed Stephen Collins’ career, that show is buried almost as deep as “The > Cosby Show”. So when my wife suggested we give “The Chosen” a try, I > agreed. > > The series tells the story of the lives of those who followed Jesus. It > was bankrolled (they say crowdfunded, but there’s not much evidence of > that) by the son of the author of the horrible “Left Behind” series of > books, which became a horrible Kirk Cameron movie followed by a horrible > Nic Cage movie. The whole series is basically shot in the guy’s backyard in > Texas, where one building is constantly and embarrassingly redressed to > look like a bunch of different buildings. Actors who don’t already have > natural accents attempt accents which are a cross between Apu on The > Simpsons and Count Von Count from Sesame Street. > > The best and perhaps most well known actor on the show is Erick Avari, who > has been in basically every movie and TV show ever made. He plays > Nicodemus, a rabbi mentioned in the Bible. > > Just as “Deadwood” took great liberties with the characters populated in > the small gold mining camp, so too has “The Chosen” added/made up much > about the followers of Jesus. The Bible was far from a history textbook > anyway, but even given that, there are a lot of embellishments in the show. > Matthew is autistic in the TV series; a Google search revealed an interview > with one of the writers who justified that by stating Matthew’s gospel > contained an almost Rain Man degree of specificity compared to the other > gospels. The roles of women are advanced (frankly are modernized) in ways > which one would be hard pressed to find any Biblical basis for. > > The free app needed to view it (you can buy episodes on iTunes and > YouTube) is riddled with bugs and glitches, despite having been around for > a couple years. The production company is the same one that tried to > release media they didn’t own which they had re-edited to make safe for > children, and they went bankrupt dealing with the inevitable lawsuits, so > don’t expect the app to get any better. > > The series isn’t bad, and it isn’t good. It isn’t going to convert > anybody, but I don’t think that was the point of it. They sometimes succeed > in making people from the Bible less intangible and more relatable... and > they sometimes fail. Again, as in Deadwood, they strived for historic > accuracy, but occasionally sacrificed that ambition to further the story. > It’s nothing I alone would choose to watch, but I didn’t consider it wasted > time the way I have with other shows I’ve watched with my wife (looking at > you, Bridgerton... and Cobra Kai). It’s ok family friendly fare, but it’s > nothing to write home about. But I’ll write about it here. > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DMNN7qcWUzbH31fvQKT5GY3MyO4VgokyK37GuheCOR%2BA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DMNN7qcWUzbH31fvQKT5GY3MyO4VgokyK37GuheCOR%2BA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/DD507180-D3A6-401F-9118-9AF3A2AB1F6E%40ellwanger.tv > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/DD507180-D3A6-401F-9118-9AF3A2AB1F6E%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DGS6-uP2CE-4%3Dh%3DDCsvu-RqAJgVgnsVb%3Dq%2BrfkDCDU%2BA%40mail.gmail.com.
