I'd say this about 15 years ago when the ad-vent of premium TV happened and I don't just mean like

HBO and Cinemax and all that that's been around forever I mean when movie and

TV watching habits shifted from everybody goes to the theater to see their big long-form stories

to everybody starts watching these premium TV series. I think HBO's Rome, maybe Deadwood,

these were two of the first ones that I really remember and then

gradually these epic stories kind of started to displace the movie industry and

stars started to flock to these and Netflix did them and I don't know Apple did it now

Disney's doing it and then the one thing that you'll notice though about almost

all of these shows is that while they were groundbreaking structurally initially that is

he just had no idea what to expect in terms of the rhythm and beats of the

storytelling over these seasons because we'd never seen anything like this before

gradually they started to give the audiences

something more familiar and they took on patterns that became kind of

predictable. One of these patterns that you noticed was that around episode 7 or 8 of any given season you would get this

retrospective this flashback episode where you step away from the

advancement of the plot and you got to go and learn about how we got here.

And whenever we get to those, I'm like, ah, come on, move forward. I want to know what the mystery is or the secret thing is, but then after I begrudgingly watch the retrospective

flashback episode I'm like oh actually that really helped okay I get it this is

that episode in our conversation on the temptation of Jesus. I understand that it is

way more fun to keep moving forward but this is one of those places where the

flashback is going to help. Here's where we need to go. On its surface, the Temptation Account in Matthew Chapter 4 is made up of three simple parts.

It's a dual, a sword fight between these two brilliant celestial beings, one of whom is brilliant or yet because he knows

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