A CIA officer investigates a charismatic figure whose followers believe he can perform miracles; he may be a divine entity or a dangerous con artist. -snip
__________________ "Happiness is a lie. Life is horror. The light is always dying all across the universe. The last star will flicker out someday, when it does, all that remains is shadow. And I will be its king!"'-Amahl Farouk
No wonder, a lot of professional critics are "freedom from religion" types, and would reflexively recoil at even a hint of pro religious iconography.
Such as this obvious homage promoting Jesus as anything other then a mockery.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Started out good with the first ep, but it's dipping with each episode. Overall still decent.
The most interesting part is the portrayal of how quickly desperate and/or simple-minded people fall for a charismatic or cult-like figurehead, abandoning logic and reason with a quickness in order to feel like they're part of something larger than themselves.
Figures. No idea why critics would pan it then. Maybe they don't respect the guy making it, like they panned Seth MacFarlane's Orville simply because it was made by Seth?
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Not really anti-religion, really depends how you look at it.
It's more about the cult-of-personality and apotheosis phenomenon. I think how people react to the "The Messiah" is as, or arguably even more important to the story than the character himself.
There's also the question of is this person a hoax or not, seems more like he is, but it's not 100% as some things can't be explained away so easily.
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