- What a Revelation!
by Knox
It’s the end of the world! Again! I mean we haven’t seen that storyline too
many times have we? What? You think I’m being sarcastic? A good old apocalyptic
storyline is always good in my book – until the son gets it on with the
girlfriend and that always ends 10 on a scale of 1 to Icky. No problem here
though because the main female character is a nun. Unless something goes
terribly wrong, I’m betting nothing’s going to go down that road. This is
Revelations, the program that people foresaw thousands of years ago. Are you
scared? I’m terrified.
Revelations is a six part series about the coming of the end of the world. It comes from the book in the Bible of the same name which, ironically enough, predicts the end of the world. It’s an apocalypse-palooza. Today’s wannabe thwarters of said apocalypse are the team of Dr Massee, a physicist and sceptic of all things, and Sister Josephina, a nun who has been hired by a billionaire to find out as much as she can about the coming end of days. What an unlikely team they make. It’s like a buddy cop movie with a dark undercurrent of evil in the script.
In the opposite corner is a horde of satanic worshippers, headed by a character called Isaiah Hayden, the worst of the worst, the most despicable of the despicable, the evilest creature you’ll ever see in your entire life, who, as it just so happens had killed Dr Massee’s little girl beforehand and cut out her heart. Coincidence? I think not. You should know by now that in every programme involving the supernatural that nothing happens by coincidence. It all is connected in some way, so when you go into the supermarket and someone you are trying to evade is there and they see you and a resulting conversation ensues. Just remember it’s their fault when you punch your best friend after getting obscenely drunk, drowning your sorrows of the past day. Remember that, it will save your life.
Honestly.
Revelations is a good, solid, creepy drama about the end of the world. It’s not the most original storylines to say the least but it’s tried and tested. This particular occurrence of the end of the world is great. It has an edge and I found myself intrigued and on the end of my seat all the way through all six episodes. I mark a programme by how quickly it goes in awareness of time. This one flew by. It’s not like Cast Away where I found myself thinking that it lasted more than three weeks. Really, what happened there? Nevermind, another film for another day.
For me, the highlight of this programme was the appearance of Mr Fred Durst as a worshipper of Satan and all around this-path-leads-to-the-dark-side fellow. He’s the one who recruits Dr Massee’s step-son, a boy called Hawk, into their “religion.” The reason I say this is a highlight is frankly because…he doesn’t wear the red cap. The red cap is nowhere to be seen or in fact any hat of any sort. I was astounded. Without the cap, Mr Fred Durst (because he needs respect as all Limp Bizkit front-men do) transformed into a shiny new, and, well, good actor. He played the part of crazy evil dude remarkably well without portraying the character like Igor or a measly minion. It’s that kind of calm evil you get that’s scarier than all of the obvious stuff.
The buddy-cop-ness of this programme is fantastic. It’s very similar to the early stages of The X Files where there was a sceptic and a believer, which always works out. And, let’s face it, anything with nuns in it (with an exception of that detective show that I forget the name of) is worth watching. It’s just laughable. Fred Durst’s appearance also makes the watch worthwhile with his convincing portrayal of a Satanist. But it just makes me wonder – Does the cap make the man? Without the cap he is evil. With the cap he is, well, not a good singer but I’d hardly refer to his music as a sign of evil and apocalyptic as I would of the coming of the Affleck child. Beware of the spawn of Ben Affleck.
Peace
Knox
