Strange Angel
Strange Angel
TV-MA | 14 June 2018 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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  • Reviews
    Roy Hart

    If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

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    Quiet Muffin

    This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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    Cassandra

    Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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    Fulke

    Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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    whatithinkis

    What a ride. That may have been the best Season Finale I've ever experienced.I cried. It's a uneven ride overall, but an interesting and unique story. Wow.Hope they get the green light for the whole thing. It's a story worth seeing and I want to see it.

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    brunodr

    So.. I still waiting for the show to begin. Yesterday was the 6th episode, of a total of 10. Until now, I watched a technical showcase of lighting and editing. I can't see any content or drama here. Has there ever been a writer for this show ? Or they simply read a book in the weekend and decided to adapt for TV because there was nothing better to do ? I don't know. If the intention was to portray 40's LA, well, good job. But if you read the novel and know a bit about the subject, it becomes laughable. How can one portray Jack Parsons like this ? I feel they don't even made a simple 2 minutes google research. The writing is very limited in its research and it lacks depth. Also, the name of the characters are almost all changed. Throughout the show, you got the feeling that whoever is producing this, know nothing about the subject that are being portrayed. All the story elements, from science to the occult - not to say character study and development, are a product of a disoriented, lazy research. So, a tremendous missed opportunity on a spectacular subject and personal story.

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    pkpera

    Starts with some Chinese medieval (or earlier) hunter, superhero - just to see that main 'hero' likes cartoons. Then, they leave factory with dirty faces after work . Were no washing rooms in California factories in those years ? I'm sure there were, this was just to make some effect - typical for inspired serials, movies ... Science part was very shallow, and was little of it. OK, title suggests something else. What will be more in E2, according to what was shown after end.I will skip rest of this. Overdone, not realistic. What is target audience ? Surely, we will see plenty of ratings 10 here. Ratings:Acting overall: 6Story: 0Direction: 4Shocking value: 10Historical value: 0

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    BenjAii

    It's a vanishingly rare occurrence for the occult to crop up in popular entertainment outside of the horror genre, but "Strange Angel" is that rare breed.If you dial back a few decades from the birth of the 1960's counter-culture in California and look for the precursors of psychedelia, LSD & Hippies, you could trace some of its parentage to the bohemian experimentalists in "Strange Angel".It's 1939 and as William Gibson would say, the future just isn't very evenly distributed yet. Jack Parsons can see the future is in space. That still sounds futuristic when Elon Musk talks about it in 2018 and like Musk, Parsons wants to do something to make it happen. What happens next is the true story of the man who helped spark that future and his unlikely tutelage under the teachings of Aleister Crowley.One episode in and this is already looking good. I'm especially enjoying Rupert Friend's turn as a wild eyed mercurial next door neigbour, who initiates/baptises Jack into the Crowleian mysteries via a swimming pool. I'll be curious to see how this show does. The real Parsons died at age 37 under mysterious circumstances, but certainly packed enough drama into his short life to fill out several seasons if it all works out for "Strange Angel".

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