Review of New TV Series, Revelations
Published April 15, 2005
Wednesdays have a new show over at NBC. Revelations is their much hyped, new limited series show about the end of days.
Simply put, Revelations is an interesting show that presents a theory of what it would be like if the "End of Days" was really upon us and not as apparent as most would think it would be.
While filled with much religion, the show is not one that preaches to you, though it does have a fair share of Biblical predictions, verse, etc. As a non-Christian who understands Christianity, the story was easy to follow.
So far, it is about a man who was very religious, whose daughter was kidnapped by a Satanist, who went on to cut her heart out to use in a ceremony. He caught the guy who did it and he was put in prison, but because of his ordeal, the man has lost his faith.
'Round the same time as all of this, a young girl is running across a nearby golf course to get to her bus stop when she is struck by lightning twice. This scene was rather intense and made me want to stay tuned to see what else would happen. The girl stops and looks at her watch which is spinning out of control. You can see, then, that her hair is beginning to stand on end. It had a good build-up of about 30 seconds and the whole time I was thinking, "Bend over and grab you ankles, baby or you're gonna get struck!"
So the girl is pronounced brain dead and they want to take off her life support to harvest her organs. Her father is poor and has been talking to some people with family members in need of organs or whatever and they have offered him money.
Well anyway, this sexy ass nun shows up after the girl's father's priest asks her to come and then during an electrical storm, the girl starts quoting scripture in Latin. The nun is stunned and asks to be alone with her to observe and trains a camera on her as she speaks. Then the nun takes her hand and places a pencil in it and puts it to paper and homegirl draws the nun a map.
So she follows the map and it leads to the guy who's daughter was murdered, or at least to his office and they meet, he tells her to bugger off, and she basically says "I will for now but God knows where you are at all times and I'm in good with him so he'll hook me up and let me know where you are if I need you"... I'm paraphrasing out of the ass there, but you get it, right?
So he looks at the map one night and sees a picture on the map of a donkey and he goes and looks at a little note his daughter gave him back in the day and it has the same donkey on it. Brother goes a little apey and goes to the hospital.
- Review of New TV Series, Revelations
- Published: April 15, 2005
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Culture: Religion, Review, Video: Television
- Writer: The Prynce
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This is a SERIES !!!!? Damn, I thought this was just a one-time TV movie. So really it sounds like NBC is falsely using Revelations to sound all religious. I mean, you actually made it sound interesting.
It's a 'limited series' which, from what I understand just means it's like a mini-series that will air over a few weeks or a season instead of a few days or a week like a mini-series.
As I said in my review, the show is far from religious. It has a religious basis but overall, I wouldn't call it religious.
If you think about it, though, the book of "Revelations" in the Bible is called "Apocalypse" in some Bibles. But I do agree... NBC probably just used the name to come across as more religious than it really is.
And just to add a little note to my article, I've noticed that SciFi and USA Network have taken to airing repeats of the first show.
-=The Prynce
Some good scenes, but overall, terrible, wooden, unrealistic acting from the nun - I'll have nun of that sultry stuff from a nun. The pseudo-scientific, pseudo-religious stuff is a bleed-over from the crap The SciFi Channel puts out all the time.
This is up on the Advance.net network P
I almost forgot about this. I usually post a fuller explanation, especially as I thought you were fairly new. This is what I normally post. complete with links:
I posted your review to Advance.net which collectively is read by hundreds of thousands per week. The link there is just to the Cleveland site.
The Advance.net network is affiliated with just about 15 newspapers overall, and 10 different Web sites.
http://www.advance.net lists the sites and newspapers.
Blogcritics has a relationship with them that allows us section editors (I'm Music but was filling in for Video) to post reviews and other section news up - with mild family-friendly editing. The editors DON'T put everything up there, only what is timely and what clearly took some effort - and that which is well-written.
- Temple









Tell Natascha McElhone that a Catholic nun would NEVER be photographed with her hands showing. She would conceal them in her sleeves or otherwise conceal them within her garb.