When Haley Joel Osment's character on Chuck Lorre’s TheKominskyMethod used some all-too-accurate church phrases, an anti-Scientology blogger went digging into the series creator's past. Here's what he found out:
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on Oct. 25, and it was the season finale, titled “Chapter 16: A Thetan Arrives,” that caught the attention of Tony Ortega. The blogger published a detailed rundown of the Scientology-specific dialogue, even going so far as praising the “remarkable episode” for getting the “church’s lingo down so cold.”
The episode contains a storyline involving Alan Arkin’s character, Norman, whose grandson, Robbie returns to the family after breaking away from them years prior due to his affiliation with the Church of Scientology. They banter about Robbie’s Scientology life as the young man drops specific lingo like the MEST universe and Thetans . The duo even participate in a training exercise during which they sit across from one another in stillness.
Ortega suggested that Lorre, the sole writer on the episode, must’ve had some experience with the religion to nail it in the way he did. Ortega added to the mystery by following the first post with a second one featuring an interview with a musician named who claimed that Lorre was a member of the controversial Church of Scientology back in the 1970s shortly after moving to Los Angeles to pursue a music career.
“He was pretty hardcore in the 1970s. I don’t know what specific courses he was involved with, but I do know that he was trained as an auditor,” Levin told Ortega. “And he was still involved in the early '80s. But I think he took off shortly after that." Levin didn’t give a specific reason for his exit but he did say that he ran into Lorre years later, and “by that point Chuck was definitely not in Scientology anymore. He had just quietly left. He was into Buddhism by that time.
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