From the time he was a teenager, writer-director Jon Erwin has aspired to put what he considers the “ultimate” Hero’s Journey story on screen, he told the Deseret News. Erwin’s decades-long filmmaking career has paved the way for his latest project: “The House of David,

Erwin kept his script on the life of David and has turned it into the first season of “House of David,” a TV series that begins airing Feb. 27 on Amazon Prime, with three episodes available this week and one new episode a week through April 3, viewable in more than 240 countries.

Drama unfolds as Jesse blames his son David for his wife's demise, casting him out to tend sheep and deepening the familial rift. Amidst solitude, David finds solace in his lyre, an instrument his mother passed on along with her songs.