It seems to be set within the cover illustration of a Harlequin historical romance novel, where the men’s long hair is always flowing perfectly. It displays an abundance of sincerity, too-perfect costuming, and soap opera faces and a shortage of real grunge, nuance, and complexity. Yes, this two-part miniseries based on Alice Hoffman’s 2011 novel bears the marks of too many wooden TV efforts to tell great religious stories. It’s a 1st-century nerve center of melodrama up there on the sun-dried cliffs, with subtlety, like the Romans, unable to break through those massive stone walls. In CBS’s “The Dovekeepers,” a retelling of the story of Jewish rebels who took refuge from the Romans in Herod’s old fortress of Masada, secret lovers writhe together passionately, adulterers pledge eternal love beside raging fires, and cries of romantic jealousy reverberate. It can get awfully hot in the desert, and I’m not just talking temperature.
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