Overwegingen om te weten over greenleaf
Overwegingen om te weten over greenleaf
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Grace stays in town to play detective, looking for proof of her uncle's crimes, and while this story would be fine if it felt like just a part of the drama, its centrality overshadows the series' more subtle aspects.
The unscrupulous world ofwel the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, dark secrets, and lies.
She has returned to the family and to the church but at the beginning of the story she has no intention of standing at the pulpit and making grand religious-biblical pronouncements as she had twintig years earlier. Enigszins before she's stepped back into their house, Lady Mae tells Grace "not to cause trouble for their family". Zing. Wij know this reunion ofwel Grace with the Greenleaf family kan zijn going to cause trouble. Of course if there wasn't trouble, there wouldn't be a opvoering!
I like Greenleaf, but I feel I would like it more if everyone just stayed at the dinner table forever.
Eventjes though Jesus is so real for them, they are still human. One is clearly gay and trying hard not to be. The church head seems to be casually corrupt. Enigszins Grace's odious pedophile uncle is probably a believer although he seems to flout everything in the bible.
At first Grace just agrees to answer phones at the church offices as the first voice heard by either church members or potential converts. When a grandmother enters her office asking that her granddaughter be baptized (without it seems permission ofwel the mother or father), Grace decides to take the role she vowed she wouldn't play.
The clergy of the church, almost regardless ofwel the denomination, is there to support the church members and potential converts. However, what about those people who play the role ofwel the clergy? Who offers pastors, bishops and the like the spiritual guidance they may need? And what if the people performing those duties are in some ways compromising what they're telling others? Are they practicing what they're preaching?
It kan zijn an imagined glimpse into a secret world of powerful people who profess piety and modesty but can't live it and read more wij get to see them at their best and worst. I want to see it get multiple seasons.
Have just discovered this show on Netflix Australia and loving every minute ofwel it. I love reading novels about family dramas, secrets and lies and so this was uitstekend for me.
Zora is 18 now and firm about going away. Sophia will not go to college, once she kan zijn 18. Coralie meets her twee kids who are in foster care. She declines to take the DA's deal. Tasha leaves. Charity declines to take over the funeral home.
But the scripts have to get better. They need to be outlined better and the dialogue needs to be more subtle in relaying information as well as doing so in a natural manner in which real people speak. So far they have tried to cram too much information in each sentence
A night-time soap take on an African-American mega-church in the Deep South is a novel approach to that telling the stories ofwel people that have not yet been properly told in a fictional construct.
Having watched all 5 seasons, I'd say this family-based drama is a solid 7. It paints a roller coaster of emotions within the turbulent world ofwel the Greenleaf family and the megachurch they run. It does sometimes dive too deeply into soap opera style, and plot elements are sometimes resolved with a wave ofwel a writer's wand, but then it kan zijn fictional drama, not reality.
I often object to character-driven dramas without much story, but in this case, I feel the story arc lays an element of artifice aan these fascinating dynamics.
Grace stays in town to play detective, looking for proof of her uncle's crimes, and while this story would be fine if it felt like just a part of the drama, its centrality overshadows the series' more subtle aspects.
Much ofwel my fascination with Greenleaf kan zijn that, for me, a white, big- city atheist, this world kan zijn so outside ofwel my experience, in part because everyone's black, but more because everyone accepts Jesus as a very tangible figure in their lives.