I've been an avid Bible student since I was 21 years old. Prior to that I lived my life without caring what my Creator thought about my choices. My Bible study has only increased in the over the 40 years since I first started reading the Gospel accounts.
I know the Bible very well and am thoroughly enjoying The Chosen series. Naturally, since I am so familiar with the Bible account, I have some opinions about this series. I believe it is important to point out that less than 10% of each episode of The Chosen is actually from the Bible accounts. Ninety percent of these episodes are embellishments; the producer's ideas of how the Bible characters may have spoken, looked and acted, beyond what is written in the Bible. I have no problem with those embellishments. As a matter of fact, I appreciate and enjoy much of the non-biblical inventions by the writers of this series.
I would like to speak about the good and the not so good embellishments created by the writers of this series. I hope you will not be offended by my critique.
Episode 7 - Nicodemus meets with Jesus. This episode is very well done. The writers' depiction of Nicodemus is very well written. Mary Magdalen did not arrange the meeting, but that's not an issue to me. Only one small detail; the writers add that Jesus tells Nicodemus "come see the Kingdom I am bringing into this world". The thing is that the Scriptures inform us over and over that this world needs to be eliminated for God's Kingdom to come "on Earth as it is in Heaven". I do love how the writers incorporated Psalm 2:12 into the account, even though that is not in the Scriptural passage of the meeting. That said, there are no embellishments in this episode which are objectionable other than the recurring ones I stated in previous episodes; the names of Christ and his Father as well as the dress and grooming.
Biblical content in this episode; 20% John 3:1-21 has the entire meeting with Nicodemus so that you can see what is Gospel and what is embellishment.