In this episode I first offer a quick primer on the Olympian Gods that dominate the Trojan War Epic story.  Gods that – unlike our modern monotheistic gods – were neither omnipotent, omnipresent, or, for that matter, particularly “good”, “moral” or even interested in we human beings.  Then I explore the myriad challenges that Netflix will face in bringing big gods to little television screens.  How do you make a human actor/actress “look” like God?  What level of “agency” do you allow the gods to play in the overall plot?  And how do you portray gods that, in the original story, are sometimes “glorious and god-like”, but other times “petty, mean-spirited and immoral”?

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