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Another series that I watched recently was Eli Stone. It only lasted two seasons but I gave it four out of five stars, at Netflix. What a strange show - sort of a cross between Quantum Leap and LA Law!
A cutthroat lawyer finds himself on a mission from God. While religion plays a central role to the story, the show doesn't get preachy by any means. It pulls from all or nearly all major religions as a basis for a secret message each episode that only his pseudo-Chinese acupuncturist can help to decode. This is all done mostly tongue-in-cheek.
One very strange facet of the show is the use of spontaneous, choreographed scenes in which the supporting characters break out in song and dance [much in the style of old movies from the 50s, when musicals were all the rage], in order to convey a message significant to Eli's current mission. These are all hallucinations portending information about future events.
At the least, this was a very strange and annoying plot devise. It all but killed the show for me and was bad enough that Tsu didn’t watch anything beyond the first episode or two. It reeeeally doesn't work. But the rest of the story is fairly well written and often quite entertaining.
A cutthroat lawyer finds himself on a mission from God. While religion plays a central role to the story, the show doesn't get preachy by any means. It pulls from all or nearly all major religions as a basis for a secret message each episode that only his pseudo-Chinese acupuncturist can help to decode. This is all done mostly tongue-in-cheek.
One very strange facet of the show is the use of spontaneous, choreographed scenes in which the supporting characters break out in song and dance [much in the style of old movies from the 50s, when musicals were all the rage], in order to convey a message significant to Eli's current mission. These are all hallucinations portending information about future events.
At the least, this was a very strange and annoying plot devise. It all but killed the show for me and was bad enough that Tsu didn’t watch anything beyond the first episode or two. It reeeeally doesn't work. But the rest of the story is fairly well written and often quite entertaining.
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] is extremely well written. Its understated tone and the top-notch acting, all spiced with allusions to exotic temporal paradoxes and laws, make it an equally exotic treat in the science fiction genre. Sam and Ruby meet by chance, it seems, and quickly fall in love. All is well until Sam informs her that he’s a time traveler from the year 2470. Sam is dead serious, it seems, but Ruby, a woman with a long history of failed relationships, thinks it’s all a role playing game; at least she hopes so. This and his continuing revelations create no end of complication in their relationship. From there it gets interesting.