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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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.