- Content: “A Spectacular Conclusion to Season Two”
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What You Need To Know:
Episode 208 of HOUSE OF DAVID packs a powerful emotional punch, with exquisite cinematography, sets, costume design, directing, acting, and music. It’s the longest episode with several endings, but it holds viewers’ attention. Episode 208 has a strong biblical, moral worldview, with strong Christological allusions. It extols God, faith, prayer, marriage, family, kindness, repentance, and forgiveness. Like other episodes in HOUSE OF DAVID, Episode 208 has some violence, with a little blood. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children, plus younger teenagers.
Content:
Very strong biblical, moral, pro-family worldview with very strong Christian allusions extols God, faith, prayer, marriage, family, having children, kindness, repentance, and forgiveness, plus a character says there’s no sin God can’t redeem and someone compares God’s words to music;
No obscenities or profanities, but a character calls another a son of a perverse woman;
Violence includes a character pushes another person off a wall, there is a swordfight, a character gets blood on cheek during a sword fight, character jumps off a wall and lands forcefully on the ground, character has a bloody nose, people are shown dying or lying lifeless in a courtyard, someone puts a knife at another person’s throat, people stab and kill other people, and someone gets burned alive;
No sex, but man and woman hold hands and hug;
No nudity;
No alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs; and,
Characters lie to protect another person in danger, but this is, of course, allowed under God’s moral laws.
More Detail:
Episode 208 of HOUSE OF DAVID, Season Two, picks up where the previous episode left off when David reveals to Saul the truth about David’s anointing. Saul throws a spear at David and a swordfight between them ensues. Eshbaal arrives and fights against David. However, David escapes Saul and Eshbaal.
On Saul’s orders, Abner commands the soldiers to find David. David’s allies try to protect him from Saul’s wrath while David’s wife, Mychal, is forced to choose between love and family loyalty. Meanwhile, Jonathan and his wife, Sara, visit the house of Saul, Jonathan’s father, for a family dinner. Johnathan must risk everything to protect his friend, David.
In this fight for survival, who will come out on top and who will perish?
The HOUSE OF DAVID: Season 2 finale is a fantastic conclusion to an otherwise middling season. Just like before, it boasts exquisite cinematography, sets, costume design, directing, acting, and music. It is the longest episode with several endings, but it holds the viewer’s attention. The emotional impact is incredibly powerful. The hope is that the show continues to get better, and the filmmakers can learn from past mistakes as they go into the third season.
Every single cast member does a great job here.
Michael Iskander as David delivers a great performance. He has definitely made the character of David his own. Ali Suliman as Saul continues to impress in the way he can switch back and forth between kind and aggressive. Indy Lewis as Mychal plays her at her most concerned while Ethan Kai, once again, takes the crown as the best performer in the Saul family. Yali Topol Margalith as Mirab continues to give a vulnerable and effectively scared performance. Sam Otto as Eshbaal puts in the work, and it borderline frightens the viewer.
Louis Ferreira, as David’s father, Jesse, has a fatherly, warm presence necessary for a show like this. He has great chemistry with Michael Iskander and Davood Ghadami who also continues to deliver emotionally powerful moments in the finale. Finally, Stephen Lang kills it as Samuel the Prophet. They cast the right man for this role. It’s hard to believe that a Hollywood actor of this caliber would sign up for a biblical series, but Lang absolutely showed up to work.
This series demonstrates a very strong biblical, pro-family, Christian worldview with mentions of and praises of God with talk of God choosing someone. A character asks God to show His will for His kingdom. There is talk of how God doesn’t make mistakes like that. People close their eyes in prayer. Someone asks another person for forgiveness. A character says there’s no sin God can’t redeem. Someone tells another person to be still, which is the theme of the episode. People are told to remember God’s greatness. There is a mention of a covenant of kindness. Someone says God’s words are like music. Marriage and having children is extolled.
Episode 208, like other episodes, has some PG-13 violence, with a little blood. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children, including young teenagers, and sensitive adults.
