Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints

I started to watch the first episode, not knowing quite what to expect from a Scorsese produced show about the saints, but I was pleasantly surprised.

The series uses Scorsese's narration and dramatisations of key events in the saint's life to tell the viewer the background story of what they did and why they became saints.

The first saint, not surprisingly, is Joan of Arc. Now I, like many, I suspect, know the basics of Joan's story but little else about her. The show does a good job of filling in the background about their lives and what marked them out for sainthood.

I think it's worth watching, based on this first episode.