Season Two of The Chosen Playing at Star

Season Two: The Chosen will be playing at the Star Theatre starting February 1. It will show for four weeks on Tuesdays at 6:30 PM. Each evening show will feature two episodes of the series, which are about 45 minutes apiece.

So far The Chosen has produced two seasons and two Christmas specials. All these are available to watch on the free app, The CHOSEN. It is a free, easy-to-use app that has over 349,000,000 views from around the world.

As a review, on February 1, starting at 6:30 PM at the STAR Theater, the last episode of season one will play. The new episode from season two will start at about 7:20. The second week will begin with a 15-minute video, The Shepherd. This short was the successful Christmas movie that encouraged the production of The Chosen series. After episodes 5 and 6 in the third week, a documentary, Free Burma Rangers, will be played.

The Chosen is the largest crowd-funded film project of all time. Tens of millions of dollars were raised from investors and it shows. The show is a work of art. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has the only set in the world specifically designed for filming stories related to the Bible, especially stories which take place in the Jerusalem of approximately 30 C.E. This set in rural Utah is the backdrop for Season two, and the stones of the temple do not look like they’re made of Styrofoam. It’s a gorgeous set, and the filming marked the first time a non-Mormon crew was permitted to use it.

The Chosen isn’t trying to convert you. They know most of their most ardent fans are likely already Christians. “Preachiness” is absent and while earnest enough, it’s a show that remembers to keep things interesting and entertaining, the essence of storytelling. As the Atlantic magazine put it, “Rather than merely reciting Jesus’s greatest hits, Jenkins and his writers linger with characters in their daily lives—marital and professional conflicts, financial struggles, campfire gatherings. When the audience sees climactic moments from the Gospels, such as Jesus’s miraculous healing of a leper, the events register as disruptions of the status quo.”