This episode concludes the Abraham miniseries in a really powerful way. It has more of the well-known material from the Abraham story than Part 1 did, but it does it all very well. This one begins where Part 1 left off with Abraham mounting a rescue mission to save his cousin Lot from slavery and ends with the climactic journey to Mount Moriah to sacrifice Isaac. I’ll just once again point out how amazingly good Richard Harris is in this role. And there is one scene here that I’ll bring up as a good example of how excellent this miniseries is: Melchizadek, the High Priest of Salem (later to be known as Jeru-salem), appears in one scene here and that’s a scene from the Bible that I’ve never seen before in an adaptation. He doesn’t really do anything for the plot, but thematically he’s a very important figure in the overall mythos of Abraham and he’s a very important character emotionally, the first person outside of his own camp that Abraham has encountered who has also had a revelation of the one true God. The scene is well-written and gets to exactly that point. And that’s what I mean when I say that this adaptation seems to have been written by people who actually know the text really well and even, to the degree any of us do, understand it. They at least have a deeper understanding of the Biblical text than a lot of people who write Biblical adaptations. That’s what makes this miniseries so refreshing and, ultimately, really emotionally moving. It’s a great piece of work. 4 stars.
tl;dr – part 2 of this epic miniseries wraps things up perfectly with a nuanced script that actually understands the Biblical narrative; Richard Harris’ performance is once again fantastic. 4 stars.