📺 Millennium, S 1 E 21 “Maranatha” (1997)
This episode’s mood was so thick you’d choke on it. It was steeped in the history of the Chernobyl disaster and its related mythology of the apocalypse. Chernobyl translates into “wormwood,” which many compared to the Biblical star of Wormwood in the Book of Revelation. The episode was pretty gruesome for 1997 mainstream TV: shotgun blasts to the head, the cutting of fingers, and an autopsy. Oh, and the devil may or may not have made an appearance. But actor Bill Nunn definitely did.
