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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary CIA's Eva Geller (Michelle Monaghan) is called in to help with the case of a street preacher the people call Al-Masih (Al-Masih), who seemingly disappears and appears elsewhere.
Created By: Michael Petroni
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Messiah (2020)
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 1, 2020
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7.4
Summary CIA's Eva Geller (Michelle Monaghan) is called in to help with the case of a street preacher the people call Al-Masih (Al-Masih), who seemingly disappears and appears elsewhere.
Created By: Michael Petroni
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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75% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Messiah is potent stuff packed with fine performances.
The series has a lot going on, and it's certainly food for thought. Yet given what a third-rail topic the subject tends to be, the rewards don't seem to justify the risk, in the same way the merits of "Messiah" season one, once completed, don't wholly justify the time investment.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 54 User Ratings
7.4
74% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 54 User Ratings
7.4
74% Positive
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
15% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
11% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
I understand that this must be a difficult matter for anyone with fixated religious beliefs. So far, the interpretation of the Messiah perfectly matches the Zen Buddhist idea of Jesus as written by Thomas. You have to be a Zen Buddhist to understand it. I don't know if the authors just tried to provoke or if it really was their intention to view this story in this way. But they matched almost perfectly how Thomas' version of Jesus could interact with our modern world.
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Netflix’s “Messiah” is a half-fascinating, half-frustrating new series.
Because Eva is such a bland character and Al-Massih is by the show’s design unknowable — yielding nothing over the show’s first half other than miracles we don’t know whether to take at face value — there’s vastly less here. Over the show’s first season, no viewer could be blamed for eventually giving up the faith.
Messiah is a New Year’s curio that doesn’t know whether it wants to be an esoteric rumination on leadership and hope or a spy romp with New Testament bells on. ... The real twist, however, is how divinely underwhelming the whole thing is.
It’s one thing to stoke audiences’ imagination and anxiety with uncertainty, but do it for too long, and to no conclusive end, and what you’re left with is characters, situations and conundrums that are increasingly impossible to care about—especially when the show has nothing enlightening to say about them.
Don't be fooled by the Netflix auspices, the reasonably decent production values and a couple wildly overqualified castmembers. ... If you're not on the fence and you're eager to watch Messiah...enjoy. My saying it's a badly made show doesn't make it exist any less.
This Review Contains Spoilers.
This Review is also Short, which the show wasn't, which ****.
Netflix's Messiah is a ten part series which challenged faith in it's announcement, dividing opinion across the world within all known religion. it's marketing was however not so noticeable outside of those groups however.
Though in importance, it's story is a chaotic whimsy of political intrigue, sad attempts of interesting characters except for a few likeable people and a one dimensional attempt of a thought piece that once watched in full falls apart.
That Ending. i actually enjoyed the series enough to the point i was wanting to give this a 7/10, but it's integrity is as weak as it's characters by the end, The C.I.A who have been tracking down Al-Masih, who had no past records, to being a son of a con artist and having a connection to a known religous terrorist to... actually always being the Messiah, a show which direct plot follows for the entirety until those last few minutes is unbelievable, i give credit to whomever decided this idea for a show, because it's a great idea, but only in concept.
if you have Netflix, go watch Messiah and construct your own opinion on this, or better, just go watch Stranger Things again.
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Production Company:
- BCD Travel
- Industry Entertainment
Initial Release Date: Jan 1, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Australian Writers' Guild
• 1 Nomination
Location Managers Guild International Awards (LMGI)
• 1 Nomination
