TV series

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

2004 · 1 season

A sincere, faith-driven costume drama that moves at a steady, earnest pace and asks you to care about the children it follows.

Overview: Piedmont (Italy), nineteenth century. In Turin, the priest Don Bosco, a man from a humble farming family, he gave himself totally and passionately to the task of collecting from the streets to marginalized children and care for them. Not only out of poverty, ignorance and social distress, but it got for the first time, to feel loved. He fought with extraordinary faith and tenacity to overcome obstacles and snares that both the civilian and ecclesiastical authorities, they put in their path to prevent him from completing his goal: the founding of the Congregation of the Salesians, which would guarantee the future of their children.
How it feels: Earnest, warm, uplifting and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Faith, politics, class
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: faith
politics
class
Places: big city
countryside
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none