With the coming new year, Netflix is going to gift us a brand new series ‘Messiah’. Messiah is an upcoming American thriller web television series created by Michael Petroni. The first season will have ten episodes which will be released on January 1, 2020. The series stars Mehdi Dehbi, Tomer Sisley and Michelle Monaghan in main roles. It has been produced by Industry Entertainment and Lightworkers Media.
About the Series
The series focuses on the modern world’s reaction to a man, who first appears in the Middle East claiming to be the eschatological return of ‘Isa (Jesus) or the Mahdi. His sudden appearance and apparent miracles gathered a growing international following, casting doubts around who he really is, a case investigated by a CIA officer.
In January 2018, it was announced that John Ortiz, Tomer Sisley, and Mehdi Dehbi would star in the series. It was announced that in may that Michelle Monaghan had been cast in a starring role. It was reported later that Melinda Page Hamilton, Stefania LaVie Owen, Jane Adams, Sayyid El Alami, Fares Landoulsi and Wil Travel had joined the main cast. On December 3, 2019, the official trailer for the series was released by Netflix.
Recent activities
The trailer has received negative receptions on Twitter although the show presents the plot as a mystery, its direct references to Quranic stories allowed Muslim users to trivially predict the plot of the show. One user, @Sultaan_Mo1, claimed to have been blocked by both of the official Twitter accounts of Messiah and Netflix for spoiling the twist ending where the character that the official trailer attempts to portray as and suggest is Jesus is actually the anti-Christ trying to trick people into following the devil. This was predicted due to Netflix naming the character being played by Mehdi Dehbi “Al Massih ad-Dajjal” which translates to the “Antichrist” or “false messiah” in Arabic.