jlw:
Yes, it’s done.
Oh, I didn’t let my kids near the TV last night (Satanic ritual stuff, very very creepy).
Actually, it’s one of those miniseries that may get renewed as a regular TV series for fall or next spring. (Lord help us!)
As a six-part series, it was interesting. I don’t think I could take it as a regular series because it relies so much on the portrayal of the Satanic stuff to move the story along.
Did you catch the bit where Bill Pullman walks through the church after the Satanist ritual is over and sees the dead goat (from which the antichrist was born, yuck) and there are five small white bloody robes hanging in the background? Obviously the little children shown in the previous scene had been sacrificed, but thank goodness they didn’t even pretend to show that part of the “ritual.” I always wonder at the parents of child actors that they would even let their child participate in such a scene. I certainly never would.
I can’t watch a show that relies that much on horror to tell the story. To me, that’s a subtle participation in evil, filling people’s heads unecessarily with images that may scare and frighten. It may just be my personal revulsion to it. I stopped watching the forensic type police shows (Law & Order, CSI) that I once really liked because the constant emphasis on death and depravity was just too many sad and disturbing images for me to want in my memory.
I like Bill Pullman as an actor and some of the mystery in the show, but that was about it. The “romance” between the two lead characters (a nun and Pullman) was alluded to at the end, and if the show continues it will certainly be more empahsized. Why is it that if a nun is a character in a show she will almost certainly either leave religious life or be heretical in some other way? Unless she is old of course, then she will be a cold-hearted tyrant. I guess a young, smart faithful nun is not an interesting character from the point of view that any beautiful, smart woman who chooses to remain chaste/celibate is just impossible for Hollywood to understand or be sympathetic to.
If this show is renewed, it will be a “treasure hunt” each week looking for arcane mystical knowledge or artifacts that will help “forstall the end of days” as they said in the show. Why they’d want to hold back the Last Judgment I don’t know. Shouldn’t the nun at least know that Christ will return in glory and has already won the victory? It’s not a very Catholic understanding of the end times I think. More like the Protestant Tribulation period it seems like.
