This show is less horror than it is police procedural, except that the usual law enforcement hierarchy is replaced by a religious one. It's a crazy alternative reality in which the investigations proceed rationally, but the suspects are spirits and demons. I was hooked at first by the solid writing and excellent actors (especially Michael Emerson) , but then, sadly, the show decided to become explicitly political and woke.
In one episode a black seminarian is asked how he can train to become a priest when there are so many white Catholic Trump supporters. The priest-in-training is chastised by his superiors for presenting a sermon about race. I have a feeling the writers of this show are not familiar with the politics of many in the current Catholic church.
There's another episode about an evil corporation (a thinly disguised Amazon). In a third, there is a ring of corrupt cops who pull over black people for supposed traffic violations and sometimes kill them.
There are at least one or two non-political episodes after that one, thankfully, but the repeated attempts to inject time-sensitive political references are offensive, and they will ensure that the show will feel dated and kitschy. That's sad, since the subject matter--good and evil, angels and demons--is pretty timeless.
I haven't finished the whole series, so I don't know whether it continues its downward trajectory. So far, the missteps into left-wing talking points have dulled my enthusiasm to binge to the end, though I may get there.
It would be nice if writers would stop trying to use their TV shows as political ads. Some episodes of this show are a 10, others a 1. So, a 5 for a show that could have been much better.
In one episode a black seminarian is asked how he can train to become a priest when there are so many white Catholic Trump supporters. The priest-in-training is chastised by his superiors for presenting a sermon about race. I have a feeling the writers of this show are not familiar with the politics of many in the current Catholic church.
There's another episode about an evil corporation (a thinly disguised Amazon). In a third, there is a ring of corrupt cops who pull over black people for supposed traffic violations and sometimes kill them.
There are at least one or two non-political episodes after that one, thankfully, but the repeated attempts to inject time-sensitive political references are offensive, and they will ensure that the show will feel dated and kitschy. That's sad, since the subject matter--good and evil, angels and demons--is pretty timeless.
I haven't finished the whole series, so I don't know whether it continues its downward trajectory. So far, the missteps into left-wing talking points have dulled my enthusiasm to binge to the end, though I may get there.
It would be nice if writers would stop trying to use their TV shows as political ads. Some episodes of this show are a 10, others a 1. So, a 5 for a show that could have been much better.
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