I suppose one can’t complain too much about a show’s overreliance on deus ex machina plot developments when seeing God’s fingerprints all over every revelation or twist is literally the entire point. Still, it’s difficult not to wish Fox’s The Faithful: Women of the Bible offered something more substantive to hang on to than the sense that everything we’re seeing is being guided by the hands of higher powers — God’s, but also history’s, and creator René Echevarria’s.
Ostensibly an effort to recenter the female perspective in some of the most famous tales from the Book of Genesis, the three-part event miniseries instead treats its characters like paper dolls to be pushed around at the whims of a narrative set in stone millennia ago. In the end, it offers little actual insight into these women, the men around them or even the deity who’s willed all of their fates into being.