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Strange Angel' explores strange life of Jack Parsons (review)
By Mark Dawidziak, The Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Having already launched a new "Star Trek" series and now waiting for writer-director Jordan Peele's reboot of "The Twilight Zone," streaming service CBS All Access is reaching for the stars this summer with a period drama called "Strange Angel." Premiering Thursday, June 14, it is an ambitious but uneven show based on the colorful and controversial life of Jack Parsons.
And, yes, it is strange. Pretty much had to be, given its subject.
If you have spent any time at all watching cable shows devoted to supernatural places, outer spaces or mysteries at museums and monuments, you've probably heard of Parsons. He's a popular fellow with these series drawn to the more bizarre corners of history, science and American culture.
Even "Drunk History" has expelled some boozy breath on the enigmatic Parsons, who, like one of his sky-high experiments, was a combustible mix of elements. He was a pioneering rocket engineer, a fearless chemist, the co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a controversial occultist.
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He was drawn to Pasadena's Devil's Gate, a creepy rock formation that some occultists have viewed as a portal to hell. He had an affair with his wife's sister, who left him for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He was accused of espionage during the Red Scare. And, not to blow the ending (although this has been reported in every account of Parsons' life), he died at the age of 37 in a home-laboratory explosion.
His death officially was ruled an accident, but theories have been put forth, ranging from assassination to ritual killing.
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