In a few weeks, One Piece, probably the biggest Netflix series of the summer, will be launched. But an exciting comic book adaptation awaits you right now. The fantasy series The Chosen One, based on Mark Miller’s American Jesus, launched on August 16.
The Chosen One (aka The Chosen One and El Elegido) poses an interesting question: What if a boy from Mexico suddenly developed Jesus powers and was declared the Messiah?
Fantasy series on Netflix: That’s what The Chosen One is about
The series centers on 12-year-old Jodie Christianson (Bobby Luhnow), a seemingly ordinary boy from the small Mexican town of Santa Rosalía in 1999. But one day he has to realize that he’s anything but ordinary. After surviving a collision with a truckhe manifests supernatural powers that his mother (Dianna Agron from Glee) tried to suppress with drugs for years.
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Jodie is the chosen one
Jodie turns water into wine, he can heal sick people and even delve into the minds of others. Everything indicates that he is the reincarnation of the Messiah Jesus Christ. The religious circle of his village begins to worship the child prodigy and soon a huge following rallies around the boy.
But can Jodie resist the temptations of newfound fame through his Jesus superpowers? What is his true purpose on earth? And who is the mysterious Lemuel (Tenoch Huerta from Black Panther 2) pursuing the child prodigy? These are just some of the mysteries to be unraveled in The Chosen One.
The Beginning of a Great Fantasy Story: Is the Netflix Series The Chosen One Worth It?
Visually, The Chosen One is a good one Surprise in the Netflix uniform. The sequences in 1999 are shown in the narrow 4:3 image format and convince with their cinematic look, which savors the landscape of Mexico.
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An incredibly beautiful Netflix series
The series is more than that Indie film with a coming-of-age story and a pinch of mysticism as a bombastic high-gloss fantasy: a bit of City of God, a pinch of Stand by Me – The Secret of a Summer and a touch of American Gods.
The first season of The Chosen One consists of only six episodes, which promise an entertaining binge with a running time of around 40 minutes each. The plot is based on the first of a total of three volumes of the comic template. So there is enough material for further seasons.
But if The Chosen One joins the ranks of Netflix’s numerous cancellations, that would be frustrating. Then the series would with a nasty cliffhanger and lots of unanswered questions end up.
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