The Tv show- Living biblically

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I watched a little of the new TV show Living biblically. I found the scene with a lapsed Catholic in the confessional to be bordering on blasphemy.
Is this Ok for us to watch or is this moraly objectional?
 
It’s a TV show designed to appeal to many people as possible on CBS.

I prefer darker and sinister shows than fast food comedies.
 
I just looked up this show hoping it would be a reality series where people actually did live like in the Bible, as in, living in a hut in the desert with no running water, doing carpentry by hand, wearing long handwoven tunics, etc.

I was disappointed to see it was some sitcom set in modern day. If it’s about lapsed Catholics, why would I want to watch a show about that when I can see it all day in real life?
 
It’s a TV show. If you want to watch it, watch it. If it doesn’t appeal to you, don’t watch it. Would you watch it if it wasn’t about Catholics (lapsed or not)?

I personally found the pilot very funny and will continue watching it just as I did the TV series Grounded For Life which also revolved around a Catholic family.

Since it’s a comedy, I don’t take anything in it seriously. I just enjoy it for what it is. A show filled with laughs.
 
It seems like theologically it’s pretty whack - they totally misunderstand the New Covenant and keep talking about laws in Leviticus and things like that, seemingly having no clue about how the Church and the New Covenant supplement those laws and abrogate many of them.

Morally it seems decent.

 
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Would you watch it if it wasn’t about Catholics (lapsed or not)?
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No, I am not interested in any situation comedy about lapsed people trying to regain their religion.

Like I said, I live all day around non-religious people. They’re everywhere. The same way that I live all day around people who act or have acted like the cast of “Friends”, “Seinfeld” or “The Office”.
I do not watch TV so I can see people who act like 20 people I know. I can just watch the 20 people I know. They’re more interesting to me than a scripted version anyway. And often funnier.
 
Leviticus is everybody’s favorite Bible book to make fun of.

And yes, I have had to explain to people about 100 times that we don’t follow the OT rules. It gets a bit hard though when some Catholics rely very heavily on the OT to prove some apologetics point or other. Whatever. My faith isn’t an easy one and I have pretty much given up discussing it with outsiders unless I meet someone who is truly interested or else grew up in it enough to know the basics.
 
I don’t think this show will last. It wasn’t that funny.
 
I am sorry if it sounds harsh, but it’s a fact.

Catholicism is not easy. The first time somebody gets told that they can’t masturbate, can’t have sex with their girlfriend, can’t get divorced and remarried, have to be at church every Sunday, they’re usually out the door like lightning because it’s too difficult.

I was out the door myself for a rather long time before I decided I preferred to be back inside.
 
I watched it and thought it was pretty stupid. The depiction of the priest was so unrealistic as was the confession. So predictable - he threw a stone. It won’t last.
 
Seinfeld is a rare example of a sitcom that raises mundane situational comedy to the level of art… thanks to the genius of Larry David.
Friends is entertaining but not on the same level. Most Sitcoms are very mediocre and not worth your time.
 
Not only that, but I thought the church had red doors which usually implies it is an
Episcopal church.
And rather living Biblically, aren’t we supposed to be living the Gospel?
 
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Seinfeld is a rare example of a sitcom that raises mundane situational comedy to the level of art… thanks to the genius of Larry David.
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It may have been art, but my average trip to the dentist was funnier.
My husband, who watches a lot more popular TV than I do, never found it humorous either.
 
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Different strokes for different folks, of course… but it remains popular to this day two decades later. Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David both made hundreds of millions off that show. For whatever reason it really resonated with people.
 
The one where George is trying to save his Frogger score is my favorite.
 
I have not seen the show, but it’s only got so much gas; there are only so many strange enough to be funny rules. Also are they just going to make fun of or are they also going to promote that there is basis for faith, I doubt so?
 
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