The Chosen video round-up: new scene, new trailer, etc.
The Chosen Season 4: Episodes 4-6 comes to theatres today.
One of these days I’ll get around to posting some comments on The Chosen Season 4: Episodes 1-3, I promise. I’ve been juggling a few things and I’m not as up-to-date on all the meta-commentary around those episodes as I feel I should be before tossing in my own two bits, sketchy and preliminary though they’ll be. But soon, soon.
In the meantime, I wanted to catch up on some of the show’s official video offerings.
Chief among these is a scene from Episodes 4-6, which arrives in theatres today. In it, Jesus asks Thaddaeus and Little James if they ever “miss” the early days of their movement, when it was just the three of them hanging out together. I got to ask series creator Dallas Jenkins and a few of the actors if this scene reflected how they feel, looking back at their show’s humble origins, etc., etc., and I made this scene the hook for the feature article I wrote about the series for Christianity Today.
A version of this scene was previewed in a livestream back in October, but that version was taken offline after just a few days. This version of the scene appears to be permanent (or as permanent as things ever are on the internet):
Also, in case you missed it, a 98-second clip from the beginning of Episode 6 was previewed in a livestream last Thursday. It begins at the 27:50 mark in the video below:
Next, a couple of trailers.
This trailer for Episodes 4-6 arrived today:
And if you missed it, there was this trailer for Episodes 1-3 a couple weeks ago:
As noted above, Episodes 4-6 are in theatres now, and will stay there for two weeks, until February 28. They will then be followed by Episodes 7-8, which are apparently getting a shorter eleven-day run between February 29 and March 10.
And then, the season will start streaming in the app sometime after that.
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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)
The Chosen recaps:
Season 1: review | scripture index
Episode recaps: The Shepherd | one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eightSeason 2: The Messengers review | scripture index
Episode recaps: one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | The MessengersSeason 3: Episodes 1 & 2 notes | Episodes 7 & 8 notes | scripture index
Episode recaps: one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight