When the pandemic hit in early 2020 and people around the world began spending weeks in their own homes, The Chosen was made available for free online. For a show that relies on crowdfunding, the decision may have seemed questionable, but the show’s executive producer Derral Eves, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told KSL that even with the decision to make the show available to anyone free of cost, it brought in enough money to fund the show’s entire second season.