u/Naive-Inside-2904

I’ve seen a few posts from people who really seemed to like Unchosen and I’d love to understand why. It’s a big misfire for me that feels more like a soap opera than an insight into a hidden part of modern British society.

This show opens with a title card about how there are many cults in the UK that operate in plain sight.

But then the rest of the show doesn’t shed any light on how the cult in depicted in the show is able to subsist, or how they co-exist with the world around them. Instead it’s really about how a psychopath infiltrates their community and causes all kinds of mess.

The cult live in patriarchal system which tbf isn’t that different from the way many communities and families live. There are some extreme forms of punishment and banishment for transgressors or ‘unchosen’.

I checked it out because the cast is so great: Asa Butterfield, Christopher Eccleston, Fra Fee, Siobhan Finneran… but the material is just too limp to give them anything worthwhile to sink their teeth into.

There’s a central performance however that can’t quite match the gravity that many of her scenes require and as a result, so much of Unchosen falls flat.

There are far more intriguing themes the show introduces that could be explored further - internal homophobia, grief, abuse within cults, alcoholism - that ultimately the writing doesn’t have much interest in.

I’ve seen a few posts here from people who really seemed to like Unchosen and I’d love to understand why. It’s a big misfire for me that feels more like a soap opera than an insight into a hidden part of modern British society.

This show opens with a title card about how there are many cults in the UK that operate in plain sight.

But then the rest of the show doesn’t shed any light on how the cult in depicted in the show is able to subsist, or how they co-exist with the world around them. Instead it’s really about how a psychopath infiltrates their community and causes all kinds of mess.

The cult live in patriarchal system which tbf isn’t that different from the way many communities and families live. There are some extreme forms of punishment and banishment for transgressors or ‘unchosen’.

I checked it out because the cast is so great: Asa Butterfield, Christopher Eccleston, Fra Fee, Siobhan Finneran… but the material is just too limp to give them anything worthwhile to sink their teeth into.

There’s a central performance however that can’t quite match the gravity that many of her scenes require and as a result, so much of Unchosen falls flat.

There are far more intriguing themes the show introduces that could be explored further - internal homophobia, grief, abuse within cults, alcoholism - that ultimately the writing doesn’t have much interest in.