Jeffrey Dean Morgan is always an interesting actor, and here he fills up what is a pretty underwritten role with shades of disappointment and awareness of his many failings. But even he can't single-handedly create a friendship with Alice through one conversation about music. There's supposed to be a big emotional pay-off with this friendship. When " The Lady" (as Alice calls the Virgin Mary) starts going after doubters, haters, and skeptics, Alice says, sounding like a tyrant: "Doubt weakens faith. Doubt leads to damnation." Her uncle calls in the church big-wigs, a bishop ( Cary Elwes, with appropriate Boston accent) and a hot scruffy Monsignor ( Diogo Morgado) to investigate the miracles Alice performs. She goes "viral." You might even call her an "influencer." There are a couple of shots of girls across the land watching YouTube videos of Alice performing miracles, and these girls are weeping, feeling "seen." If Alice can do it, I can. Alice didn't "fit in" either, and now she's a saint! There's hope for me too! This is the most intriguing aspect of "The Unholy," almost bordering on satire. We see it all the time, "influencers" hocking curated "lifestyles" to the masses, who swallow it whole and then act betrayed when it's discovered the Emperor has no clothes.
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