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'The Passion' on HBO
I understand you're getting this series (a BBC-HBO co-production) over the Easter weekend. Here in the UK, it's being shown as a serial all week. I do strongly urge you to watch it. Not for any religious reason, but because it quite simply is a gripping drama. The series follows the last week of Jesus's life, but it presents events in their correct historical context and explains (without in any obvious way seeming to do so) why events that you've heard a hundred times in Bible readings were quite so revolutionary at the time. Plus, the various characters are presented as rounded individuals, not black and white villains and heros.
So far the series has not been remotely 'preachy' so even if you aren't a Christian, you can watch it and enjoy it. Almost all of the critics love it, including a lot who reviled the Mel Gibson film.
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