The Conservative Trying to Shift America Rightward... One Movie at a Time

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  A new TV show broke through this year.

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  Can one stone change the course of history?

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  And it's a story that many people are pretty familiar with.

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  Goliath!

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  House of David is an eight-part series airing on Amazon Prime Video.

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  It follows the story of King David,

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  from his early days as a shepherd to his epic fight with Goliath.

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  After hitting the top rankings on Amazon this spring,

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  the show has been greenlit for a second season.

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  What's interesting about House of David is that it's aspiring to be an HBO-style prestige TV show,

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  right?

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  It's a show that they're shooting in Greece on this desert land,

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  and there are these wide shots of landscapes,

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  and it's different from what you would expect

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  if you were trying to think about a biblical series.

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  That's our colleague Maggie Severns.

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  She covers corporate influence,

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  and she's been looking into the people who've secretly been helping to bankroll this series.

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  One of the funders we uncovered in our reporting is Leonard Leo.

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  Leonard Leo isn't a name typically associated with Hollywood.

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