What Australian's will (possibly) be watching this week

First there is a documentary on the "distinguished" Dr Alfred Kinsey, who in the words of Benjamin Walker "perfected the art of using science to mask his distorted [sexual] desires, so that he could all the more effectively remold society in his own dismal image."

Saturday night features The Second Coming, about a young man appearing at a soccer stadium to announce he is the son of God and humanity will be doomed unless a third testament is added to the Bible ... in five days. It's like Joseph Smith writes on golden tablets underneath a goal post. The following evening there is a documentary on Opus Dei and the Da Vinci Code, presumably a follow up to last week's on conspiracies, controversies and cover-ups within OD.

Monday night features a comedy which manages to combine soccer and the Da Vinci Code under the pretext the World Cup has been rigged and it all goes back to the time of Christ, with a secret society ensuring the prophesied results come true and promoting the cult of the football.

Tuesday sees the premiere of the series Absolute Power. According to the reviewer the title is borrowed from Lord Acton's quote that "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely", which he uttered "while speaking about the crisis of papal infallibility that rocked the Roman Catholic world in 1870. Absolute Power examines its implications in a more modern context." It does so by replacing the pope with a PR man. Incidentally one of his first clients is the Archbishop of York who has in sight the Church of England's top post. (For those who don't know that would be the bishopric of Canterbury although strictly speaking the head is the English monarch.)

Finally Thursday next week there is a French film, The Devils, although that is a misnomer because the story concerns an angry boy and his autistic sister in search of their mother, while escaping various juvenile institutions. However upon researching the film the title may be apt because the children are prone to violence and childish histrionics.

So that's what Australians will (possibly) be watching this week.

PS Regarding my previous posting, the nun in Neighbours does end up making the courageous choice, committing herself to serve Christ and his Church.