Series · Prime Video · 2017

The Chosen

A serious attempt to show Jesus among working people. It invents scenes. It does not invent the claim.

Most screen Jesus is either a poster or a scandal. This one eats with people who have jobs, and the jobs matter. The writers add conversations the Gospels do not record. A house should know that, the way it knows a illustrated children's Bible is not the text.

Watch it as a way into the text, then open the text. The show is the porch, not the room.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Fishermen, tax collectors, a tent-maker's world. Work is visible.
Household
7/10
Homes, dinners, a mother, a wedding. The ministry interrupts real tables.
Piety
9/10
The subject is worship, and the show is not embarrassed.
Courage
7/10
Following costs a boat, a post, a reputation.
Republic
5/10
Rome is occupied fact. The politics stay smaller than the person.
Temperance
7/10
It is willing to be slow. That is a discipline.
Truth
7/10
The words of Jesus are mostly the words. The added scenes should be labeled as added.
Stewardship
8/10
It is made to be watched with children and again in twenty years.

Live historicallyAfter an episode, read the chapter it came from. If the show added a scene, say so.

Series · Prime Video · 2023

A Small Light

A true account of ordinary courage. Watch it.

Miep was a secretary who said yes to hiding people and then kept saying yes in the form of errands. The series understands that courage looks like a shopping bag and a closed mouth. It does not need a speech from this desk. Watch it with anyone old enough to know what the knock on the door meant.

The eight

Industry
6/10
An office, a ration book, a bicycle. The heroism is logistical.
Household
7/10
A marriage that agrees to the risk.
Piety
5/10
Conscience, not a speech. They are not saints in their own mouths.
Courage
9/10
They carry the groceries knowing what the knock would mean.
Republic
7/10
A city under occupation. The small refusal is political in the true sense.
Temperance
8/10
Grave, and not in love with the cruelty.
Truth
9/10
It sticks to what a secretary did. The diary is not a myth here.
Stewardship
8/10
The whole story is what one office handed to the future by refusing to comply.

Live historicallyDo one concrete, unposted favor for someone who actually needs it.