Can you imagine a biblical version of "Modern Family'?
The reason Hollywood doesn’t get it is because they don’t want it. They didn’t understand “The Passion of the Christ” either. Great shows like “The Waltons” puzzled Hollywood too. Ralph Waite took the job of John Walton because he’d been told by his agent that “It would never sell”. They studio executives even put it in a time slot they expected it to die in. It didn’t. I don’t believe people really want crap amoral ugly vulgarity and obscenity in the their media. The average American wants to feel good when they watch tv and not be constantly assaulted. The Walking Dead has a lot of killing but the reason it has such a wide appeal is I think people actually yearn for the end of this type of shallow empty world even many who are not religious.
Oh, and I love that Satan looked like Obama.... this series is indeed authentic.
In the past, neither the general Hollywood types nor the Christian community was so willing to rip into a Biblical story for what it saw were its flaws.
The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and King of Kings were grand Biblical epics in the 1950s and 1960s, and people don’t constantly gripe at them for their lack of line by line recitation of the scriptures.
What Mark Burnett and Roma Downey did was present the basic stories of the scriptures to millions of people who have probably never heard those stories in any form. If even a small portion of those pick up a Bible to read the stories for themselves, then Burnett and Downey have led more people to read the Bible than most evangelists in history. The Holy Spirit can grow the seeds that they scattered that landed on fertile ground. How many might come to know Christ? And so many bicker and gripe about it.
Which people would you bar from eternal life because it wasn’t presented the way you would like?
This is in my Netflix queue and I can’t wait.
The last episode was quite good. That the show got great ratings is a hopeful sign.
We watched all episodes and overall we thought it was pretty good.
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I don’t have cable, can’t justify paying to watch comercials. So today I pulled out my old DVD of “The Greatest Story Ever Told” and was, as usual, truely impressed with the visuals and no CGI.
How will Hollywierd make a religious-based movie today without gratuitous car crashes and explosions, dialogue laced with four-letter words, sex, frontal nudity and half the characters being gay??
I just have this vision of a chariot race (such as the one in Ben-Hur) and, when one of them crashes, there is a fireball and massive explosion!! It will be entertaining, but won't do much to tell the story.
I enjoyed the “The Bible” series and I am not even religious. But I am still learning! :)
I enjoy historical dramas and thought the Bible series was quite entertaining.
I’m not much for evening TV (retired) and hadn’t watched until it made it to daytime yesterday. Yes, it was compressed but it was only a 10 hour series.
I made a big mistake. I recently bought a recliner, super soft over stuffed leather with electric controls. It had me sleeping before the show was over and I only saw the first 2½ hours.