Reunions

I have been an avid Bible student since I was 21 years old. Prior to that I lived my life without caring what my Creator thought about my choices. My Bible study has only increased in the 40 plus years since I first started reading the Gospel accounts.

I know the Bible very well and am thoroughly enjoying The Chosen series. Naturally, since I am so familiar with the Bible account, I have some opinions about this series. I believe it is important to point out that less than 10% of each episode of The Chosen is actually from the Bible accounts. Ninety percent of these episodes are embellishments; the producer's ideas of how the Bible characters may have spoken, looked and acted, beyond what is written in the Bible. I have no problem with most of those embellishments. As a matter of fact, I appreciate and enjoy much of the non-biblical inventions by the writers of this series.

I would like to speak about the good and the not so good embellishments created by the writers of this series. I hope you will not be offended by my critique.

Season 5, Episode 6: A lot of non-scriptural nonsense

Ramah, Cafne, Atticus and Quintus are all make-believe, invented characters not found in Scripture. These invented characters unfortunately change the narrative of the truth found in Scripture.

Make-believe characters are fine, but not when they change the truth of the Bible account. Thomas never acted like a brat in Scripture. No one shouted against Jesus after he said "give Caesar's things to Caesar and God's things to God". There is nothing at all in Scripture which indicates any Roman plotting against Jesus. Pilate tried to release Jesus in the Bible account!

The episode is good for the excerpt from the final Passover which is in the Bible at the beginning of the episode, but even more-so for the make-believe embellishment the writers wrote about Nicodemus returning and the interaction between him and Mary Magdalene. When he and his servant Matthias recite the prophesies from Isaiah and Micah it made me burst into tears. The writers of The Chosen invented that scene but it is absolutely powerful, not like the ridiculous plotting of Cafne, Atticus and Pilate they invent, or the bratty attitude they give Thomas because of the girlfriend they invented for him.

Biblical content - 5% Isaiah 35:5; Micah 5:2; John 13:18-22 ;15:1-8; Luke 22:14-22.

The purpose , again, is to explain not exactly to show. And this can be pretty risky. The confrontation between Caiaphas and Judas seems unrealistic in good measure and improvised at level of script. The fight between Pilat and Caiaphas - only for effect. And Atticus versus Kafni, like Atticus versus Zee - forced.

A good point, maybe, the conversation between Nicodemus and Joseph but it defines more than the character than the situation. Not the dessapointment but the thought about intro - slice from Last Supper as real good point of episode.

This episode, not even the episode, the WHOLE season was ruined by the terrible amount of fillers that has nothing to do with the Bible, Jesus, or even the story. It was just boring to see and it was very hard not to fall asleep. Just terrible, I truly hope that this doesn't happens for the following season, because I truly doubt I will watch it at the movie theater. It is sad that just to make more episodes, this show was ruined, the first 3 season were so so so good and it is truly a shame that it is not anymore. I hope again, and I share with you my hope that the following seasons are not this bad. I WILL NOT WATCH AGAIN AT THE MOVIE THEATER.

Sin, greed, and more sin.

Episode 6 Centred around the return of Nicodemus, he and others must try and not stop the Pharisees but try and explain and give evidence in their belief that Jesus is the messiah. We also see more of Mary and the effect it is taking on her.

A "filler" episode but I really did miss Nicodemus and I'm happy to have seen him again so that brought me along the episode. It leans a bit back into our main story but takes place predominantly a few months before current events. There are some very strong 1-1 in this episode, also your asking why can't they do more to help !!

8/10.