Rape, murder, incest, violent crime, drug peddling, human trafficking — the stuff of television drama is much more about vice than about virtue and its expression as religious faith.
But two new series are tackling head-on the subject that has long been considered taboo for TV. Hulu’s “The Path” revolves around practitioners of the fictitious new age-y Meyerist Movement. OWN’s “Greenleaf” bores deep into the dark side of the family behind a prosperous Christian mega church in Tennessee. Both series use the motivating power of faith as plot engines for characters spread across the spectrum of belief, from the blindly devoted to the deeply skeptical.
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