'Strange Angel' episode 06: Cast navigates 'sex magick' and false prophets as they explore ways to manifesting their will
"Master Crowley tells us that the greatest obstacle in manifesting our will... is sexual frustration." That's the line that the Grand Magus at the house of Thelema feeds Jack just before taking his picture in the latest episode of 'Strange Angel', CBS' new period drama that straddles the boundaries between science, morality, sexuality and the dark mysteries of the occult.
In our review of episode 5, we noted how the midway through season 1, the show had begun to lose steam as it put the plot on the back seat to explore the psyche of the characters, most recently through a Peyote fueled trip in the Californian desert that strengthened the bond between Jack and his erratic neighbour Ernest Donovan (Rupert Friend). Episode 6, titled 'The Mystic Circle of the Young Girls', takes us back to the desert - this time with the sober CalTech team - as Jack and the boys pitch tents to set up what would, later on, become the JPROL or 'Jack Parsons Richard Onsted testing Laboratory' (and eventually NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
