Historical epics are not in short supply, depending on what direction you’d like to tread. The best fantasy shows at the moment, House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, feel almost more like historical dramas, albeit from a fictional age that never really existed. After finding tremendous success with The Chosen, Prime Video managed to find it’s own answer to the epics of the Game of Thrones universe with the biblical series hit, House of David.
The biblical epic appeals to viewers on so many levels, as the actual David v. Goliath story plays out on screen even as a shepherd boy is being groomed and molded into a formidable individual capable of replacing a once powerful king. Despite embracing its religious setting fully, the House of David also brings to the fore the scheming that often occurs at the highest levels of political power while showcasing how challenging young love can sometimes become. First premiering in 2025, the series chronicles the rise of the son of Jesse, from shepherd to king. After defeating Golliath (Martyn Ford) in Season 1, the second season, which premiered in March 2026, saw David, played by Michael Iskander, being forged into a noteworthy leader on the battlefield and in everyday life.
A third and final season of the series is currently in the works, but a new release is coming. Season 1 of House of David very quickly became a major viewership success for Prime Video, drawing more than 40 million viewers globally. In the aftermath, the season got its own DVD release to further establish itself. Now, as we look forward to Season 3, it has now been revealed that House of David is getting an exciting new release on November 17 in the form of a DVD for Season 2. The upcoming release is an eight-episode physical media edition with a total runtime of 458 minutes, with subtitle options for English and Spanish, and also 2.0 Dolby Audio. This release showcases that a market still remains for this format. In this age when digital-only releases can be cut off, this format ensures access for viewers in perpetuity.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes
What Fantasy World Do You Belong To?
Middle-earth · Grand Line · The Continent · Camp Half-Blood
Pick your magic, your crew, where you want to wake up and who you would rather be fighting, and we will tell you which world you actually belong in. Four are open to you: an ancient kingdom living through its last good age, an endless sea full of pirates, a continent that pays people to kill monsters, and a summer camp where the Greek gods are extremely real and mostly a nuisance.
💍Middle-earth(Rings of Power)
👒Grand Line(One Piece)
🐺The Continent(The Witcher)
🔱Camp Half-Blood(Percy Jackson)
FIND YOUR WORLD →
01
What kind of power do you want?
Every one of these worlds runs on a completely different sort of magic.
ASomething ancient and half forgotten that came down through my family.
BSomething completely ridiculous that works in a fight and gets a laugh.
CNo magic at all, just training, potions and a very sharp sword.
DSomething I inherited from a parent I have barely met.
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02
Who is travelling with you?
Nobody gets through any of these stories entirely on their own.
AA fellowship drawn from every corner of the world who barely trust each other.
BA crew I picked up one at a time, all of whom would die for me.
CTwo or three people I would never describe out loud as friends.
DTwo mates from school who are exactly as out of their depth as I am.
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03
Where do you want to wake up tomorrow?
The best fantasy is usually just somewhere you would genuinely like to live.
AA high city of white stone with the sea somewhere far below.
BA ship under sail, with an island ahead that nobody has mapped.
CA rented room over a tavern, in a town I am leaving in the morning.
DA cabin at a summer camp with everybody else already awake outside.
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04
How are you making a living out there?
Even in fantasy somebody has to pay for the horse.
AI am not, because somebody far older than me decided this was my duty.
BTreasure, and I am not always careful about whose it used to be.
CI take contracts, since people will pay well for what they will not touch.
DI am fifteen and this is all technically a school trip.
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05
There is something in the woods. What do you do about it?
All four of these worlds keep something unpleasant out there in the dark.
ASend word to somebody who has seen this before, then hold the line.
BWalk straight in, because it is interesting and possibly edible.
CAsk what it has been eating and what the village is willing to pay.
DWork out which myth it escaped from, then improvise very badly.
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06
Who is the villain of your story?
The enemy tells you far more about a world than the hero ever does.
AAn ancient evil that has been patient for several thousand years.
BA government that has spent a long time calling itself the good guys.
CA man who turns out to be far worse than anything I hunt for money.
DA god, or possibly my own family, and quite likely both at once.
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07
What do you actually believe in out there?
Every world hands its heroes one rule and asks them to hold onto it.
ASome things are worth defending even when the odds are hopeless.
BNobody gets to tell me where I can go or what I am allowed to want.
CPick the lesser evil, and never pretend afterwards that it was not evil.
DMy friends come before anything a prophecy has to say about it.
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08
A thousand years from now, how are you remembered?
Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your world.
AIn a song, in a language hardly anybody still speaks.
BAs the one who got there first and proved the whole thing was possible.
CBarely, and mostly wrongly, in ballads I would absolutely hate.
DOn a plaque at a camp, read by kids about to do the same thing.
REVEAL MY WORLD →
The Map Is Drawn
Your World Is…
Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
return.
The Rings of Power · Prime Video · Since 2022
Middle-earth
You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.
This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
everything you touch is older than your entire family line.
The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.
One Piece · Manga since 1997 · Netflix 2023
The Grand Line
You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
finding out what is over there.
One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
harder because of that rather than in spite of it.
You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
it.
The Witcher · Netflix · Since 2019
The Continent
You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
people are where it all gets complicated.
Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
got told wrong.
Percy Jackson · Disney+ · Since 2023
Camp Half-Blood
You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
everybody kept telling you.
Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
something nobody thought to test for.
The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
every time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.
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Who Stars in ‘House of David’?
In the eyes of critics on Rotten Tomatoes, House of David Season 2 performed okay with a score of 67%. However, with audiences, that score ramped up to an impressive high of 87% as the show continues to establish itself in the realms of prestige television. Besides Iskander, who plays David, a heroic character recognized in the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic faiths, the series also features other key figures. Ali Suliman plays King Saul, David’s original benefactor turned antagonist by the time Season 2 concluded, thanks to his own paranoia. Ayelet Zurer plays Ahinoam, Saul’s dutiful yet conniving queen, with Ethan Kai as Jonathan, heir apparent to the throne of Israel and David’s best friend. Yali Topol Margalith stars as Mirab, Oded Fehr as Abner, Indy Lewis as Mychal, Saul’s daughter and David’s wife, with Stephen Lang as the feared spiritual authority, the Prophet Samuel.
The DVD release of House of David arrives on November 17. Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Prime Video. Stay tuned to Collider for updates.
Release Date
February 27, 2025
Network
Prime Video, Wonder Project
Directors
Jeff T. Thomas, Jon Gunn, Jon Erwin, Lynsey Miller
Alexander Uloom
King Achish
