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Strange Angel
2018 · TV series · 50 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Mark Heyman
Science FictionFantasyDramaMystery
The story of the mysterious and brilliant Jack Parsons in 1940s Los Angeles as by day he helps birth the discipline of American rocketry and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley.
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He has a TV show called Strange Angel, and it's pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Angel
I quite enjoyed the TV series made about Jack Parsons a few years back; Strange Angel
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7210448/
Unfortunately it ended (cancelled) just when L Ron Hubbard knocked on the door and things started to get interesting.
Stranger then Fiction, you couldn't make it up, no one would believe it:
“This tendency towards pseudoreligiosity surfaces most clearly in Campbell’s relation with that mountebank and founder of exploitative cults, Hubbard”
L. Ron Hubbard had a talent for grifting people. Later on he joined Jack Parsons magical order 'Ordo Templi Orientis'. At Parsons Pasadena mansion, Hubbard and Parsons engaged in the occult task of raising a moonchild, before Hubbard ran off with Parsons money, girlfriend and yacht. There's a fictionalized version on 'CBS All Access' called "Strange Angel". Hubbard turns up at the end of season 2.
There's also a TV series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7210448/ and a book by the same name: https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Angel-Otherworldly-Scientist-Whiteside/dp/0156031795. I read the book but haven't seen the series. The book was quite good but has some slow patches and seems to get a little lost at times. (I work at JPL)
Check out Strange Angel! It's a television series. They even came to Caltech to film on location.