The Pendragon Cycle is a TV series executive-produced by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro exclusively for DailyWire+. If you're unfamiliar, it's the conservative streaming outlet attached to Shapiro's The Daily Wire news service. As "alternative" broadcasting like the "All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show" becomes the new normal for the MAGA faithful, The Pendragon Cycle is a discount Game of Thrones that retells the story of King Arthur's most-trusted magician during the arrival of Christianity.
In the mid-thirteenth century, the Dominican preacher Étienne de Bourbon compiled his vast Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus at the convent of Lyon (c. 1250-1261). Structured around the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit-though death prevented him from completing more than five-it was a storehouse of exempla designed to enliven sermons. One of its most striking passages appears in the first book, under the gift of Fear ( de dono timoris), in the seventh section devoted to the fear of particular judgement.