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SHADRACH: Episode 1.1 and 1.2

"Family Finds Faith"

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What You Need To Know:

SHADRACH is a heartwarming family series on Great American Pure Flix. The series follows Anna, a young girl who must adjust to life in the country when her father’s business goes bust. Anna’s reluctant at first to embrace her new circumstances. However, after connecting with a horse she names Shadrach, she starts to enjoy her new life. In the first episode, Anna encounters Shadrach, but he belongs to a neighbor who treats the horse badly. Can Anna and her grandpa figure out a way to buy Shadrach from the neighbor? In the second episode, a spooked Shadrach bucks Anna and her handicapped brother. Can they convince their parents to let Michael keep riding Shadrach?

The first two episodes of SHADRACH are well-made. They feature engaging plotlines and beautiful settings. They also have a strong Christian, morally uplifting worldview, with many scenes showing characters attending church, praying and talking about their faith. Thematically, the first two episodes promote relying on faith, helping each other, and loving family and friends. SHADRACH has no objectionable content. However, two scenes of mild peril might scare very young children.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Very strong Christian, biblical, moral worldview, with scenes set in church showing characters praying and having discussions about faith (in in Episode One, for example boy tells his older sister they have to trust that things will work out with a horse, and that he will pray to God for answers), episodes feature storylines that show people helping each other such as members of the church volunteer to help look for Anna and Michael, and people stand up for and believe in each other, such as girl tells her mother that her physically handicapped younger brother is strong enough to attend school, as opposed to being homeschooled, due to his condition;

Foul Language:
No foul language;

Violence:
A few scenes of light action such as girl’s neighbor approaches her while holding a gun in Episode One and yells at her, he’s also seen treating a horse roughly and yelling at it, and in Episode Two, the horse is spooked and takes off with girl and her brother on its back so that the children fall off the horse, and the girl hurts her knee;

Sex:
No sex;

Nudity:
No nudity;

Alcohol Use:
No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Girl is rude to her mother at one point because she doesn’t want to move from the city to a small rural community where her grandparents live.

More Detail:

SHADRACH tells the story of a young girl named Anna who must adjust to a simpler life after her father loses his business. As she grows to love her grandparents’ rural life and her new horse, Shadrach, Anna learns lessons about life and faith.

Episode One introduces viewers to Anna’s family, including her parents and her brother, Michael, who has fanconi anemia, a genetic disorder that affects bone marrow. When Anna and Michael’s father loses his business, the family must leave the city and move to Spring Hill, a rural community where Anna’s grandparents live. Anna doesn’t want to move and is resistant to her new life, which includes a one-room school and church every Sunday.

One day, Anna accidentally stumbles onto a neighbor’s property and connects with a horse. The neighbor chases her off, but the horse keeps following Anna home. She names him Shadrach, and hates how mean the neighbor, Macleod, is to the horse. After her grandfather trades his motorcycle to their neighbor in exchange for Shadrach, Anna starts to warm up to her new life in the country.

In Episode Two, Anna is learning how to take care of and ride Shadrach. Anna and Michael’s grandpa teaches them how to ride together. Meanwhile, Anna’s mother looks for a job in town. The children’s grandpa decides to let them ride Shadrach down the road to their new house on their own. On the way there, Shadrach gets spooked by a plastic bag and takes off into the woods, eventually throwing off the kids.

Anna’s knee is hurt, and she and Michael are scared and unsure of what to do. Back at home, their parents and grandparents realize the children are missing and start looking for them. Anna and Michael figure out how to send a message home with Shadrach, who returns to the house and leads their grandpa into the woods where the kids are. Anna and Michael make it home safely. However, can they convince their parents to let Michael keep riding Shadrach?

The first two episodes of SHADRACH are well-made. They feature engaging plotlines and beautiful nature settings. They have a strong Christian, morally uplifting worldview, with many scenes showing characters attending church, praying and talking about their faith. The first two episodes also focus on relying on faith, helping each other, and loving family and friends. SHADRACH doesn’t feature any foul language or inappropriate content, but there are some scenes of mild peril that might scare very young children.



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