As I sat in a dark theater Sunday watching a buzzy new film about Catholic priests, I couldn’t stop thinking about Latter-day Saints.
More specifically, I was thinking about the mainstream movies and TV shows that get made about Latter-day Saints and why they often make me, a religion reporter who covers Latter-day Saints and other people of faith, roll my eyes — or scream.
While the source of my frustration differs slightly from project to project, my root concern stays the same: I think most shows on Latter-day Saints play into and benefit from religious stereotypes, embracing outsiders’ most scandalous assumptions rather than subverting them.
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