Simon Peter is in debt to the Romans and will be taken to prison if he doesn’t get any fish by morning.

Matthew is a possibly autistic tax collector who struggles with his status as a Jew working for the occupying Romans. Nichodemus is imagined as a Pharisee who goes through a crisis of faith when he finds out Jesus can perform miracles. The Chosen is refreshingly creative and dramatic in fleshing out the people in Jesus’ life. The filmmakers hope “to make 'The Chosen' bigger than the 'Game of Thrones' billion-view record' and 'the most-watched global series in history.” So far, the series pilot has been viewed over 15 million times around the world since premiering on April 19 last year.

The show is the biggest crowd-funded media project of all time, raising more than $11 million to fund their first season, eclipsing the $5.8 million by the previous record-holder, Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Chosen is a TV show with one season out of a planned eight seasons that tells the story of the gospels through the eyes of people whose lives were forever changed by meeting him. The Chosen answers that question with a resounding “yes”. With all this disagreement, is it possible to depict Jesus in a way that balances the need for imagination and faithfulness? Such depictions of Jesus often find themselves at either side of the American culture wars, with conservative Christians calling imaginative depictions, like The Last Temptation of The Christ, blasphemous, and its fans calling the critics narrow-minded and fearful. Be too imaginative and you stray too far from any version of Jesus that is in the Bible and therefore any version of him his followers will engage with (and perhaps, is worth engaging with).

Use too little imagination and you lose the ability to help people engage with the material at the deepest level. This means it’s the perfect time to watch what might be one of the single best portrayals of Jesus in film and TV history.įilm depictions of Jesus (like anything in the Bible) always struggle to balance faithfulness to the source material with imaginative storytelling. 29, ending with the season finally on Palm Sunday. Additionally, The Chosen’s YouTube page is streaming one episode live a week starting Mar. 30 to help people quarantined by the novel coronavirus outbreak.

(REVIEW) The makers of the TV show The Chosen and their streaming platform VidAngel have just made watching their show free until Mar.

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