I Cover Religion. Even I Was Shocked by the New Fox Show About Women and the Bible.
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I Cover Religion. Even I Was Shocked by the New Fox Show About Women and the Bible.
Posted by Slate
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We’re in a Bible-curious time for popular media. In the past year, star-studded animated movies about Jesus and the patriarch David each made more than $80 million in theatrical runs, proving biblical films can be powerful contenders at the box office. On streaming services, there have recently been a number of Scripture-based shows, including the Exodus comedy *The Promised Land*; Amazon’s sword-and-sandals fantasy series *House of David*; a coming *Joseph of Egypt* drama; and, most importantly, the mega-hit New Testament drama *The Chosen*, which proved to studios that there was a rabid market for faith-based content in the first place.
It seems that everyone is suddenly waking up to the potential for this particularly well-known material. And in the scramble to put its own contribution forward, Fox, with its new series on the biblical matriarchs, is testing out whether, beyond big-budget movie epics and narrowly targeted streaming shows, biblical stories might draw these viewers to traditional television.
*The Faithful*, a three-week “event series” tied to Easter and debuting Sunday in a prime-time slot (and streaming the next day on Hulu), hopes to excite audiences with the promise of religious storytelling with a fresh angle and a big name: Its first two episodes, about Abraham’s wife and her handmaid, star Minnie Driver as Sarah.
It attempts to turn Old Testament women into spunky girlbosses. But that’s not its only sin, writes Molly Olmstead
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Is that mini driver?
Make a movie about Judith, you cowards
We’re Gemstonesmaxxing. Unironic Teenjus is only a matter of time.
It’s funny that they all speak with British accents.
I really want to see SNL do a “David part 2” parody where he goes mad with power and does all that murder and adultery.
Religion…..pretending to be something it isn’t. So business as usual.
I tuned in for what I thought was going to be American Dad and saw this horseshit.
It’s Fox. How can anyone be shocked by anything they do at this point?
They’ve got Michael Weston out here playing Abraham? That’s certainly a choice…
That’s what you get with $2 million and an 8 ball
Getting tired of this rise of christian propaganda
“Setting aside Driver’s distractingly age-suspended face” I mean she’s not wrong lol. Basically the whole show is propoganda, and we will be continuing to be blasted with this type of bullshit because of the powers that be. Ew.
“I ain’t asking for the world here. I’m just asking for a 8 ball and 2 million dollars. That’s it.”
– Baby Billy
What did you expect when the reference source was a book of fantasy
You know, a Bible drama about Sarai/Sarah that actually shows all the fucked stuff could be fascinating. Because it’s a fucked up story, and my own Torah study had lead me to believe the point is for us to be made uncomfortable by it so we interrogate our own sense of morality.
Is Slate really out here posting AI assisted articles?