On the occasion of the arrival of the Easter week, Movistar Plus+ opens on April 6 the Serie The Chosena fiction with a very modern and different approach to the life of Jesus Christ that has been a success in half the world and has captivated many viewers.
The first season of the series arrives on the platform on April 6 and the second installment will be available from the 7th. The Chosen, which was already available on Plex and acontra+, defines itself as the first adaptation about the life of Jesus, who is shown in a “personal, intimate, and immediate” way.
Far from the pomposity of other classic productions, in The Chosen presents Jesus as someone very normal, nice, magnetic and with a great sense of humor. Sand focuses on the characters and the historical context of the Gospels, with a Jesus-like figure that appears in a way never seen before on screen.
what’s it about
The series is narrated from the people who knew him, without placing Jesus in the centerand betting on racial diversity and the female presence through characters that have their own entity.
More concretely, The Chosenand is located in Judea, in the first century, presenting a a hustler fisherman drowning in debt, a battered woman trapped by her own demons, a young tax collector ostracized by his family for working for the Romans, and an influential Jewish ruler who questions everything he has believed to be true until now.
The lives of these and other people will give a radical twist when they meet a mysterious man rumored to heal the sick, befriend the poor, and speak openly about bringing liberation to a people weary of the oppressive power of the Romans.
Critics applaud her
Ideal for marathoning these days offthe first season of The Chosen It is made up of eight episodes, which add up to a special chapter (The Shepherd), and its second installment has a similar structure, counting other eight episodes and another special (The messengers).
having reached more than 450 million viewers and more than 140 countriesthis series has been translated into 56 languages and was financed entirely by donors, becoming the largest crowdfunding in the history of audiovisual productions.
Since it premiered in 2017, in the mobile application of the same name created to see the first episodes of the series for free, the series has captivated audiences and critics alike, for his way of going beyond the limits of the text of the Bible.
In Spain, the first season was presented at SEMINCI in Valladolid (in the Seminci Series section) and was released in movie theaters last December 2022.
The team behind
The creator and director is dallas jenkins, who is also a co-writer with Ryan Swanson and Tyler Thompson. Jenkins is a Protestant filmmaker who directed a short film about the birth of Jesus told from the point of view of a shepherd (The Shepherd). After seeing his short, a producer from Utah became interested in the project after seeing it and decided to start the financing campaign.
The cast of the series is made up of jonathan roumie (The Newsroom, The Good Wife), like Jesus; shahar isaac (The Good Fight), like Simon Peter; Elizabeth Tabish (The Son), like Mary Magdalene; Erick Avari (The Mummy), like Nicodemus; Paras Patel (Nashville), like Matthew; George H. Xanthis (american crime story), like John, and amber williams (five little wolves), such as Tamar, among many others.
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The series about Jesus Christ that has become a phenomenon and you should see this Holy Week