Review of The Preacher's Sin

This is definitely an entertaining and closer to reality movie than you usually see on Lifetime. One of the first things to think about with this movie is what exactly IS the preacher's sin? As you watch the storyline unravel, there are a few. Most of the characters are pretty well drawn - most. But two of the most important characters are oddly flat I'm going to focus this review on the fumbling of the preachers biggest "sin" if that's what we want to call the miracle of life. On top of some family drama with his wife's niece who moves into the home after the tragic loss of her mother, the preacher finds out he fathered an adult son of his own before he got married. The two most vanilla characters in the entire movie are the two Black characters, the biracial son and his ailing Black mother. The son is uncomfortably forgiving, as is his mother. It gets even worse because the good pastor essentially denies the existence of his son while repeatedly pretending to be a great parent at home and telling the adult child he's there for him - as long as he knows his place as a secret. Even when the boy's mother dies, he doesn't clear time to stay with him through the grieving process. You have to wonder why if he and his wife had such a great relationship he didn't sit down and tell her the truth from the beginning. It's not like the son's a toddler. Was he worried that his wife would lose it because the child was Black, or that he had any child? He literally had to be blackmailed into standing up as a man and publicly admitting that he fathered a Black child. There was a lot to unpack there that frankly should have been at least half the focus of the film.