In 2001’s “Joan of Arcadia” God appeared to a small-town teen disguised as a cute boy, a cafeteria lady and other random citizens. In “Saving Grace,” a beer-sipping angel with a Nashville twang pops in on an Oklahoma City detective. In “Eli Stone,” the new dramedythat debuts Friday night on ABC, the messenger of the divine is George Michael. It’s him, by George, standing on a coffee table, bleached by heavenly white light, crooning his tune “Faith” to nudge the hotshot corporate lawyer of the title into helping a poor autistic kid sue a drug company. The appearance of the slightly grizzled singer is funny in a postmodern, post-TV generation sort of way, and that pretty much describes this latest attempt to give God his own TV series.
On one level, “Eli Stone” operates as a legal drama, with inspiring summations and surprise witnesses, but the title character, played by Jonny Lee Miller, has a problem: he’s having visions. Whether you believe that his neurologist brother that his underlying problem is a medical condition or a tap from the divine, as Eli’s acupuncturist tells him, the visions subside only when he takes on do-gooder cases. This scenario is a provocative answer to those who demand that God be a kink in our biology or a supernatural reality. Eli’s visions, it seems, are both.
The George Michael scene, however, spells trouble. If you’re a religion-and-culture geek, you know that, try as you might to use it as a data point, the tune resists religious interpretations. (“I guess it would be nice/If I could touch your body” is not a reference to St. Thomas encountering the risen Christ.) The fact that “Eli Stone” plants it as the fulcrum of its premiere show indicates a lazy blurring that pervades the show’s theological and social points. While we’re supposed to understand that Eli is being called as a prophet, he’s really only following his conscience.
And while Eli scores a big win for the autistic kid against the pharmaceutical company who made a bad vaccine, the jury is still out, so to speak, on what causes autism, and real-life pediatricians are protesting that the show may cause parents to avoid needed vaccinations.
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Perhaps if this fictional television story stimulates real life parents to ask real life pediatricians some important real life questions about the risks and benefits of the products these real life pharmaceutical companies manufacture, the questionable choice of song can be excused.
I can only hope that the show will make real parents want some real answers. I just hope they will look beyond the Ped's. answers, read the real numbers, and get the info they need. Informed consent is a myth when it comes to vaccines.
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Well, I watched episode 1 and it was better than Viva Laughlin, but it was no Saving Grace or My Name is Earl. The magical faith aspect was amusing, but I cannot see how they will sustain the "hook" for very long. What carried the show was the actors, especially the accupuncturist. There is hope that it will get better - or it may simply sink like bad karaoke.
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