The first season of \u201cSeeking Beauty\u201d takes viewers to cities in Italy including Milan, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Vatican City.<\/p>\n
EWTN+ recently launched \u201cSeeking Beauty,\u201d a first-of-its-kind adventure documentary series that explores culture, architecture, food, art, and music, and aims to point viewers to the beautiful \u2014 and ultimately to the divine.<\/p>\n
The show\u2019s host, David Henrie, who is best known for his role as Justin Russo on Disney\u2019s \u201cWizards of Waverly Place,\u201d believes a show like this is needed right now as more and more people are searching for authentic, human experiences.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe live in such a fast-paced society. Things are moving at 24, 30 frames a second. And then AI is on the horizon. We\u2019re just getting inundated with so much,\u201d Henrie told EWTN News on the red carpet at the premiere of the series on Jan. 16. \u201cI think there\u2019s this deep craving for the human, for the real, for the natural.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Catholic actor explained he believes that in order to provide authentic experiences, \u201cyou should go back and revisit cultures who have done beauty in a magnificent way \u2014 and there\u2019s always a theological component to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cBeauty to me is the language of the divine. It\u2019s a fingerprint of God. And I think it\u2019ll continue to be more and more attractive the more society gets sucked into our devices. I think you\u2019re seeing a big rejection of that, so I think the timing is perfect for a show on beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeking Beauty\u201d is screened during its premiere in Los Angeles on Jan. 16, 2026. | Credit: Grant Whitty<\/p>\n
Peter Gagnon, president of EWTN Studios, and EWTN CEO Michael Warsaw highlighted EWTN\u2019s desire to offer content portraying beauty through the faith and God\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n
\u201cEWTN has always wanted to present beauty. God is beautiful. His creation is beautiful, and there are many areas that you can see the divine in beauty,\u201d Gagnon shared. \u201cSo this series, when the concept was brought to us, fit in exactly with our new content strategy because it leads the viewer in that journey along with David. It\u2019s not David telling you. You\u2019re journeying with David to find beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warsaw added: \u201cFor us, with all we do at EWTN, it\u2019s really about introducing people to the beauty, the truth, the goodness of our faith as Catholics. So clearly this series about beauty that engages people with understanding, and being exposed to beauty in various forms \u2014 through the arts, through music, through culture \u2014 all of these things that really the Church has always been a patron of though the centuries and to bring that into this current moment so that people can really develop a deeper relationship with Our Lord, a deeper connection to the faith, a deeper connection to the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n
Henrie said he hopes viewers will be left \u201ccurious about beauty and invite it into your life more.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that even if you have a strong faith, especially growing up in America, beauty is not a part of the conversation. It\u2019s something superfluous, it\u2019s a cost that can be cut, but God never cut beauty,\u201d he said. \u201cLearning about the old world and how they saw beauty will hopefully inspire you to bring it into your soul most importantly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gagnon echoed Henrie\u2019s sentiments in that he said he hopes viewers will be led to reflect on what they see in the show and to \u201cnot just see the beauty that they\u2019re watching on the screen but to then go back home and to see the beauty around them in their lives, a beauty they may not have seen or not realized it was there, and through seeing that and being inspired by that, be led to the divine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeking Beauty\u201d is available to watch exclusively on EWTN+, a free digital streaming platform that offers faith-based content. EWTN+ is available on RokuTV, GoogleTV, AppleTV, AmazonFireTV, and on EWTN.com.<\/p>\n
This article was originally published by EWTN News English.<\/p>\n