Perspectives on a supernatural drama - 2

Starting with the name of The Merciful, this series of articles explores ‘Coma’, a supernatural drama broadcast on ifilm; the review will include evil as a theme in the drama. The ideas in the first few episodes of the review are those of the theology adviser to the screenplay development.

At the outset, it seems difficult to answer the question of Elyas’s identity. Is he a real human? Is he dead or alive? Spirit or human? Devil or angel?

It was a few episodes into the series airing, when the mysterious character, Elyas, entered the story and met Dr. Pajouhan. This added to the supernatural dose in the storyline, and the audience came to recognize what type of series they were following.

From here on, you’ll read the theology adviser’s responses to questions on the issues in the story.

Although we’d been aware what the truth behind the storyline was, but we didn’t intend to deal with the story, and what type of creature Elyas actually was. But suddenly, everybody was talking about Elyas’s being the Devil, especially the crew, who in the closing titles’ score, let the cat out of the bag and revealed Elyas’s identity.

So, eventually we decided to talk about Satan or Devil, in cinema and TV.

In the next episode, we’ll deal with the first topic here, which is whether the Devil has children.

Stay with ifilm on the supernatural side of ‘Coma’.

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