Must Repent TV


Check this article on Salon about this creepy new television show called Revelations. It seems to be aimed at religious audiences, touching on many recent themes from the media such as the Terry Schiavo case.
Some snippets…
Welcome to the latest nugget in a hailstorm of fundamentalist invective, from “The Passion of the Christ,” to Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’ bestselling “Left Behind” series, in which skeptics and agnostics are left to fight for their lives against the forces of the Antichrist (centered in Baghdad, led by the head of U.N.), while true believers are whisked away to the comfort and safety of heaven like the lucky winners on “The Apprentice,” whisked off to shop for $600 Jimmy Choo sandals at Bergdorf Goodman. All of the divine signs point to the same conclusion: The rest of us, it seems, are headed to the boardroom.
But what better way for NBC to round up a full month of hand-wringing and candlelight vigils for Terri Schiavo and the pope, than by ushering in a miniseries sure to capitalize on the fear whipped up by these two deaths, not to mention more terrorist arrests, the tsunami disaster, the war in Iraq, you name it? “All the signs and symbols set forth in the Bible are currently in place for the end of days,” breathes Sister Josepha, and we believe her, because she looks like the Virgin Mary, except with cheekbones like Isabella Rossellini’s. But is she talking about the latest tragedy in Baghdad, or the upcoming made-for-TV movie “Locusts”?

Has anyone seen the show?

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