"Book of Daniel"

[Foosinho]

Anybody else watch this? The wife and I watched most of it off of the TiVo last night - she liked it, I thought it was OK.

Yet lots of Christians have protested the show sight-unseen, including the AFA and several affiliates who refuse to air the show, claiming the show "mocks Christians". It does not, IMO. Anybody else have a take?

[Matrim55]

Anybody else watch this? The wife and I watched most of it off of the TiVo last night - she liked it, I thought it was OK.

Yet lots of Christians have protested the show sight-unseen, including the AFA and several affiliates who refuse to air the show, claiming the show "mocks Christians". It does not, IMO. Anybody else have a take?
Sorry, last night was the season premiere of both Wild Boyz and Battlestar Galactica. I was booked.

[christopher d]

It's been Tivoed for me, since I got an early night last night. But reviews from the wife of an Episcopal priest I know (my mom) went something like this:

Family too dysfunctional and waaay too rich. That the priest's wife doesn't work is laughable. The intra-episcopal affair puts the whole thing over the top. And the pill-popping is just icing on the cake.

OK, so I know more clergy families than most. I'll reserve my own judgement until seeing it.

[flowergirl]

didn't see it. the commercials for it were.... odd. it does sound kind of quirky.

oh, and most extreme christian groups that are against stuff usually do it sight unseen. think Harry Potter. and the sad thing is that people will go by what these groups say without investigating it themselves.

i know. my mother in law is one of them.

[YankHibee]

I hadn't panned on watching until the uproar. I still haven't seen it, but plan to. I know a kinds of rich dysfuctional clergy, but I've been in positions to know them--that is I studied theology with them before they were clergy.

[christopher d]

OK, so about the time they misspelled "Barnabas" I had my doubts. Then the priest came out of the church wearing a chasuble (indicating he was celebrating) when the bishop was there (who wouldn't show up unless she was celebrating). Then folks call the priest "Reverend" instead of "Father" or "Father Webster". That captures the first five minutes.

So, past the inaccuracies, it's a lame TV show on so many levels, most of them in it's marketing. It has all the heft of a WB teenie-soap, but marketed towards adults. Bleah. Two thumbs, way down.

[Mel Brennan]

Sucked. More an indictment of our current media moment than any of the issues or themes it attempts to tackle/not tackle or dramatise (not well).

[Foosinho]

Family too dysfunctional and waaay too rich. That the priest's wife doesn't work is laughable. The intra-episcopal affair puts the whole thing over the top. And the pill-popping is just icing on the cake.
So, past the inaccuracies, it's a lame TV show on so many levels, most of them in it's marketing. It has all the heft of a WB teenie-soap, but marketed towards adults. Bleah. Two thumbs, way down.
I pretty much agree.

But I still think the pre-protesting was silly. How exciting would a TV show be about an Episcopalian priest who's life was without conflict? Yawn.

I won't bother again, but I'm sure my wife will. She frickin' eats this crap up - as much Lifetime as she watches, I'm surprised she doesn't watch "Strong Medicine".

[hangthadj]

what day is this crap even on?

[HerthaBerwyn]

Its about as well acted as my 8th grade production of 'The Sound of Music' Anything more wooden would be made into a chair.

[Bob Morocco]

I was watching, changed the channel at a break, and forgot it was even on in the first place for an hour.

[BlueMeanie]

So derivative of "Desperate Housewives," I thought Aidan Quinn and his family live on Wisteria Lane. Most scenes had some sort of twist...way overkill. The daughter is somewhat of a ripoff of Clare from "Six Feet Under," too. Fortunately, we're not usually home on Friday nights, so missing this won't be an issue.

And the dude that plays Jesus was so ********ing creepy on "Deadwood" last season, it was hard for me to get past that.

[dfb547490]

I'm boycotting this because I'm usually at a bar somewhere far along on the path to blackout drunk by 10 pm on Friday.

[billreeves]

I watched it yesterday. It was not what I was expecting. As BlueMeanie said, it was more of a Desperate Housewives ripoff than anything else.

Regarding the "waaay too rich" -- the guy is supposed to be a descendant of "the" Daniel Webster (for some reason, I thought that was the dictionary guy, but that was Noah Webster -- Daniel Webster was a Senator and Secretary of State under two administrations in the 1840s and 1850s), and their house has been in his wife's family for generations. It sounds like they are old money.