The Road To Rome
So much better than the first series, however, surely the producers would have ascertained the "celebrities" were fit enough for pilgrimage at the start, obviously not!
The producers have finally got a grip on the drivers of this show,
The narrator said "The simple life is teaching them to be a pilgrim", a moment of self-confrontation, where you face the problem of being able to think without distraction. A gathering storm indeed.
Without the toxic priest from series 1 to Santiago who matronised everyone, here you could see an opening up where intellects and emotions were applied to the challenging reality.
Dana gave practical insight of active Christianity in the most natural of ways and a perfect example of Christian is and Christian does. However, Saints cannot be feminists this is a modern prism/perspective and not appropriate here. It was also interesting when Brendan Cole from an atheistic viewpoint, believed a pick-and-mix approach to the rules of the catholic faith would create change and suppress intolerance, he got it wrong here!
The producers inserted the history to great effect, nearly absent from the first series, and shared this with the pilgrims.
This was quality viewing and gave modern insight into religion and its ability to participate in the human condition.
I hope the psychologists were on hand as Les Dennis seemed to be unravelling as the series progressed, poor chap. As for the apotheosis it was a revelation, who would have believed it, speechless.