It's narrated by Roma Downey, who produces with Mark Burnett (with hits like History's The Bible to the couple's credit).
Providing what one hopes is more substantive context, Lifetime precedes the opening night's showing with a two-hour documentary special, The Women of the Bible (7/6c), re-examining scripture from its female characters' point of view and interviewing women leaders and scholars from the faith community. It also hews to the classic tradition of TV miniseries, with the desert dwellers speaking in British accents (save for Debra Winger in a curious cameo performance as Dinah's seer of a grandmother), which becomes most problematic when golden-haired Joseph is set upon by his envious brothers, who all look Middle-Eastern ethnic. This eventful story craftily weaves schmaltz and sin, like Scandal with sandals, in a formula that has worked for centuries. Her skill comes in handy once she flees the tent, after a forbidden romance ends badly, thanks to her bloodthirsty brothers (excepting kindly Joseph, with whom she later reconnects in Egypt). Dinah learned much about birthing babies while being nurtured in the females-only "red tent" by her mother Leah ( Minnie Driver) and fellow sister-wives (including Morena Baccarin) in early scenes of evocative female bonding.
Adapted from Anita Diamant's novel, this saga of revisionist her-story focuses on willful Dinah ( The White Queen's Rebecca Ferguson), the only daughter of Jacob ( Game of Thrones' Iain Glen) - he of the many sons, including the sartorially infamous Joseph.
At times, you might mistake Lifetime's enjoyably earnest Biblical epic The Red Tent (Sunday-Monday, 9/8c) for an Old Testament version of Call the Midwife.
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