The new Fox series The Faithful: Women Of The Bible is positioned as an event , with each of the three two-hour episodes telling the story of a different phase of the book of Genesis from the women’s perspective. The first episode is the story of Sarah (Minnie Driver) and Hagar (Natacha Karam); the second episode will be from the perspective of Isaac’s wife Rebekah (Alexa Davalos), and the third episode is about sisters Rachel (Blu Hunt) and Leah (Millie Brady), the wives of Jacob (Tom Payne).
Opening Shot: “Our names were whispered through time, from generation to generation.” We see the Pyramids of Giza, then a pharaoh being rowed down the Nile. Everyone working and living life on the riverbank bows down to him — except for one woman. One of the Egyptian slaves on the pharaoh’s boat takes notice.
The Gist: Sarah (Ludovica Francesconi) has vowed never to
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