Is Daniel really that bad?

Plenty of Behavior Worthy of a Prayer Session By NED MARTEL NYTimes.com

It's the raucous, not the meek, who are inheriting the earth in NBC's prime-time provocation, "The Book of Daniel," which has its premiere tonight. And the flock of the Rev. Daniel Webster (Aidan Quinn), an Episcopal minister in Westchester County, N.Y., seems to be following his outrageously wayward lead. Their errant behavior has a few NBC affiliates in the heartland debating the supposed disrespect in depicting churchgoers who indulge in worldly delights.

Daniel gobbles Vicodin to endure all that the Lord giveth and taketh away. His gay son, Peter (Christian Campbell), actually beds a bishop's niece, albeit in the backseat of that church elder's luxury sedan. Not that the bishop herself (Ellen Burstyn) can cast the first stone: she's the sideline lover of Daniel's father, himself a bishop whose wife is lost in the drift of Alzheimer's disease.

I may just have to see what all the fuss is about.