A new glimpse of the unreleased sixth season of The Chosen put angels on screen for the first time in the series, and Dallas Jenkins wasted no time addressing the reaction. On Monday, he said he had “done something a little different this season,” after the brief clip drew both praise and criticism online.
The reason the clip landed so hard is simple: fans had never seen the show portray angels before, so the first look became a test of faithfulness for viewers who care deeply about the series’ scriptural foundations. Some embraced the creative direction. Others questioned whether what they saw matched their understanding of scripture, turning a short teaser into a larger argument about where artistic interpretation ends and certainty begins.
Jenkins pushed back by saying the teaser was deliberately cut without the full scene around it. He warned that anyone claiming to know what supernatural beings look like, or what was actually happening in the clip, without seeing the episode should be “seriously questioned. Or ignored.” He added that he had “no idea how accurate” his depiction of supernatural beings was this season, but said the people objecting most loudly had even less to go on.
That defense ties directly to how the idea was developed. Tyler Thompson said the concept started early, while working on a draft for the first episode of Season 6, when Matthew 26:53 raised a question about what viewers might see if they could actually witness the angels Jesus was describing. Thompson said the team talked through the possibility together and imagined the angels “poised, and ready to intervene, and then they were in effect told not to.”
He said other events surrounding Jesus’ crucifixion helped shape the thinking, including the earthquake, the tearing of the temple curtain and darkness covering the land. Put together, those details gave the writers a structure for when angels might appear and why they would be shown at that point rather than earlier in the story.
Jenkins has made clear that he expects some viewers simply will not like the choice. He said he has “zero doubt nor issue” with that and added, “Wouldn’t be the first time. I’ll live.” The real question now is not whether the teaser caused debate — it did — but how the full episode will change that debate once the scene is seen in context.
