Is it worth a damn? I noticed that it only had a two season run, and I’m wondering if the show had a chance to wrap up the story? The subject matter is intriguing, but I don’t want to start a show only to be pissed off at the end because they didn’t have a chance to complete it.

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Strange Angel follows "Jack Parsons, a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles who started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry. Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magic rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley's teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable and unprecedented endeavor to the stars."

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Posted by DaleGribble

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Posted on 4/11/22 at 11:15 pm to PhilipMarlowe

Jack Parsons is an incredibly interesting character. But I don't think that they were able to wrap this story up in two seasons. Which is really a shame. It seems like one season would have been plenty of time to tell the story.

The stuff with him and L Ron Hubbard(and Aleister Crowley) is crazy. Cults in California seem to be as common as palm trees. Even in Parsons' day, there were literally hundreds of them...just in California.

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Posted by PhilipMarlowe

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Posted on 4/12/22 at 12:37 am to DaleGribble

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But I don't think that they were able to wrap this story up in two seasons.

Yep, that’s what I was afraid of. Thanks for letting me know. Still tempted to give it a go, because like you said, Parsons is an interesting character, and it seems like a wild story from the little bit I’ve read.