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The new CBS All Access drama Strange Angel will debut online on June 14.

Based on George Pendle’s book, the series is inspired by the real life story of Jack Parsons, exploring the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction. Jack Parsons (Jack Reynor from Sing Street and Macbeth), a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles, started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry.

Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magick rituals at night, ultimately becoming a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley’s teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable and unprecedented endeavor to the stars.

The cast includes Bella Heathcote (The Man in the High Castle), Elena Satine (The Gifted), Rupert Friend (Homeland) and Rade Serbedzija (The Saint and Shooter).

Here is a trailer for Strange Angel: