Johnny Galecki hopes to inspire conversations about faith with ‘Living Biblically’

Most conservative Christians have found nearly nothing of redeeming value in network TV for decades and many have abandoned it completely.  So a sitcom about biblical living is likely met with extreme skepticism.  This new sitcom, from a strange Catholic/Jewish perspective is not intended to mock people of faith–at least that is what their creators claim.  KS

 

Galecki said he was disheartened by early speculation that the show would be “scathing and sarcastic” in its portrayal of a religious lead character.Walsh said that’s the opposite of what the show has set out to do.“I think, hopefully, [people of faith] will find this show a cool take on what a lot of people base their entire lives around,” he said.Galecki was uplifted by the reactions he received from religious studio-audience members during the live tapings.“…There was one shoot night where the audience wasn’t as raucous as they had been in previous tapings, and I couldn’t figure out why so I talked to [the company that gathered the audience]…and they said the only difference was that this was the first… live audience where there wasn’t a religious group there,” he recalled. “And that was so galvanizing to us. Like I almost get misty-eyed talking about it because our fear was such the opposite.“Our fear was that we might offend those people who we deeply, deeply respect and want to represent in a very sane, grounded, respectful manner. So the fact that we weren’t turning those people off, the fact that they were invested in the show just made us feel like ‘OK we’re on the right track at least.’”Going forward, he hopes the new show will be able to “really to inspire a conversation” about religion.   More . . .