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Zoro-astronaut-ianism
“I had that Zoroastrianism once. Used some cream.”
UK StudioCanal Presents, streaming now
▸Creators Stéphane Pannetier, Julien Vanlerenberghe
▸Cast Céline Sallette, Daniyar Alshinov, Vlad Ivanov, Karina Arutyunyan
EPISODES 1.01-1.06 Most SF fans’ entire exposure to Zoroastrianism comes from Richard Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra” blasting out over the opening titles of 2001: A Space Odyssey. But this French sci-fi series rectifies that, throwing a philosophical spotlight on the world’s oldest monotheistic religion, whose priests were, as one character puts it, “builders, engineers, doctors, scientists… Science is a religion. Going to space is a miracle.”