In The Beginning

This episodic mini-series combs the Bible for juicy fables, with uneven results: The passages involving Abraham and Moses exude an imposing grandeur, while the section about Joseph is a hodge-podge of campy attitudes and egregiously bad acting. After God creates Adam (Sendhil Ramamurthy) and Eve (Terri Seymour) and expels them from Paradise, the film moves on to the saga of Abraham (Martin Landau) and his barren wife Sarah (Jacqueline Bisset). Although God grants Abraham's wish for a son, He tests Abraham's faith by demanding the sacrifice of that blessing. After God releases Abraham from His demand, Abraham becomes patriarch of a large tribe. The film then moves o...