Morgan Freeman’s new Nat Geo series contemplates God, and what in God’s name some of us are doing.
You could look at The Story of God With Morgan Freeman as a sequel to The Bucket List. Smashing up expensive racing cars with Jack Nicholson is fun and all that; but what happens, you know, next?
The Story of God, a six-part National Geographic special that launches Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, lets Freeman explore an infinitely expansive subject with which he has long professed fascination: what exists out there beyond what we can tangibly identify through our five senses.
As the scope of the project suggests, this is not popcorn television. It requires the viewer to pay attention and offers rewards commensurate with that involvement. To confirm the obvious, Freeman doesn’t claim to have produced a definitive factual biography of the Almighty. Rather, he examines the historical and theological facets of humankind’s relationship with a perceived higher being.
The first episode deals with the afterlife, and how our perception of an afterlife shapes our behavior and our beliefs while life is still in progress.The second Sunday’s episode is “End of Days,” examining man’s fascination with the apocalypse. (Above: Freeman with a fragment from the book of Revelation.) Subsequent weeks, in order, tackle “Creation,” “Who is God?,” “Evil” and “Miracles.”
Freeman, who coproduced the series with Lori McCreary and James Younger, serves as host, narrator and a major presence.
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