My Peeve is the Christians...if you see someone mention Jesus in the first five minutes of a drama, bingo, you know they are the killer, psycho, bigot, monster. (Maybe the only kind examples I can think of in recent years was Evan on Nash Bridges, who really “walked the walk” but got killed later in the last season, and the Mom in Big Bang Theory.)
Eli Stone, a show with the main character is a lawyer who is having an aneurysm, sees visions of people he’s supposed to help. He believes they are from God. However, this show to me is just a remake of Ally McBeal, where the main character is a lawyer seeing visions.
I LIKE Eli Stone. It’s got the easy-to-like actor/dancer/singer Victor Garber (formerly of Alias). It also has Natasha Henstridge, who is pretty easy on the eyes, and a good actress in her own right.
The tie that binds the two shows together even more is the assistant to Eli Stone, who from IMDB was only on one show of Ally McBeal, but I remember her many times more than that, Loretta Devine. Of course, the pop-in singer of the week doesn’t help (this week on Eli was Seal).
Either way, I really liked Joan of Arcadia. It was fantastic for the first half of the season, and got really good, until they started having the ‘bad’ guy show up, too. At least, he seems to be a bad guy.