Why young people like me are binge-watching The Chosen

As The Chosen wraps filming on season four and releases some sneak peek clips to fans worldwide, Madeleine Duxbury reflects on why it has connected so well with younger audiences – and what is has meant to her own faith journey

For various reasons, I’ve become wary of religion over the years (we’ll get to that later). But despite my hesitancy, I, like 400 million viewers worldwide, have found myself binge-watching The Chosen with a reverence previously only reserved for Fleabag, I May Destroy You and The Split.

It’s fair to say that the first ever multi-season show about Jesus is not what I was expecting from a programme based on the Bible (i.e. boring, preachy and irrelevant).