The Chosen S4E5 – a quick round-up

Links to some of the things I've written – and one of the interviews I've done – about the scene in which Mary washes Jesus' hair, and how it humanizes him.

Jesus (Jonathan Roumie) gets his hair washed in The Chosen.

The Chosen Season 4 Episode 5 starts streaming tonight, so here’s a quick round-up of some of the things I’ve already written about this episode.

• This is the episode in which Jesus has a heart-to-heart with his mother while she washes his hair. In January, I spoke to actress Vanessa Benavente, who plays Mother Mary, about how scenes like this “humanize” Jesus.

• In May, I commented on a few aspects of the hair-washing scene, which was posted to The Chosen’s social-media channels for Mother’s Day.

And, that about covers it for now.

I meant to write some notes on Episodes 4-6 while they were still playing in theatres back in February, but certain things in my life interrupted me while I was about halfway through that project. I hope to get back to it soon, though.

In the meantime, you can watch another scene from the episode here:

And you can watch a new trailer for the episode here:

The episode itself will be livestreamed tonight at 4pm PT / 7pm ET, here:

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June 24 update: I have added a second scene from this episode, which I discovered on Dallas Jenkins’ personal YouTube channel after writing the original version of this post.

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The Chosen interviews:

• Season 1: Dallas Jenkins, co-writer/director (Dec 2019)

• Season 2: Dallas Jenkins, co-writer/director (May 2021) | Derral Eves, producer, on Christmas with The Chosen: The Messengers (Nov 2021) | Dallas Jenkins on the ‘The Chosen Is Not Good’ marketing campaign (Apr 2022)

• Season 3: Jordan Walker Ross, Little James (Oct 2022) | Vanessa Benavente, Mother Mary (Nov 2022) | Kirk B.R. Woller, Gaius (Nov 2022)

• Season 4: Dallas Jenkins, Jonathan Roumie, Abe Bueno-Jallad, Vanessa Benavente, Yasmine Al-Bustami, and Brandon Potter at the press junket; Reza Diako, Alaa Safi, and Elijah Alexander on the teal carpet (Feb 2024) | Paras Patel and Noah James at the press junket; producers Chad Gundersen and Chris Juen on the teal carpet (Feb 2024)

The Chosen recaps:

• Season 1: review | scripture index
  Episode recaps: The Shepherd | one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight

• Season 2: The Messengers review | scripture index
  Episode recaps: one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | The Messengers

• Season 3: Episodes 1 & 2 notes | Episodes 7 & 8 notes | scripture index
  Episode recaps: one | episodes two to eight are still in the works

• Season 4: Episodes 1-3 notes

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The Chosen can be streamed via the show’s official app (Android | Apple).