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Tonight I watched the episode where Joan went to the spring formal with the school's juvenile delinquent. Everything goes disastrously wrong; her parents are furious at her, the delinquent gets expelled and then arrested, her already sour relationship with Adam becomes even more fractured. She...

I'm dredging up this very old thread because I've just started revisiting this show. It mostly holds up so far. Looking back, I think my memory lumped it in a bit with preachy schmaltzfests like "Touched by an Angel." But it's a strikingly unsentimental show, and God is not a particularly...

It was a good episode, but that's hardly out of the ordinary for this show. Far more talk-worthy in my over-inflated and not so humble opinion is the preview for the season finale. God starts talking to Joan's mom instead of Joan.

The last five minutes was perfect. Part of what makes this show so spectacular is that they avoid the usual trap of overwriting that so many shows concede to. It was the relative absense of words and just letting the actors carry the scene that made it work. Considering how much we were all...

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The first half of this episode was a bit paint-by-numbers for me, though I suppose that was the point. The second half rocked. One of the things I love about "Joan" is that it portrays issues through the character's eyes. And the viewpoints are weighted accordingly. Nothing irritates me more...

This is my favorite television episode of the season so far. Just beautiful. Using the cover of "Across the Universe" and tying in the Beatles connection with Mrs. Rove's Yellow Submarine reference was astounding. The whole letter scene brought a tear to my eye. I'm not a crying man. The scene...

12/13/03 - This episode hit me harder than any in recent memory, to the point where the ending had me in tears. Part of the brilliance of the episode was the wonderful, ambiguous characterization of Ramsey, slow yet sensitive while violent. This was necessary to allow the end to flower; God's...

Hopefully he'll become the Romano of Arcadia.

Joan's world is getting pretty bleak, I must say. I do love the aspect of her character that so readily accepts her own unhappiness after seeing what she has inspired in the teacher. I love her empathy, and I loved the way they switched things up on the formula of rebellion and taking the hard...

As someone who proposed they introduce Satan, but worried about the show losing it's religious ambuiguity (ie, making one specific faith the right one) I think they handled it brilliantly. As always, in Joan's world and ours, things aren't nearly as simple as we want them to be.

A really, really good show. Not quite Firefly level, but it fills out my Friday 8 PM slot (well usually taped shows on Saturday slot) nicely. Next week's episode looks interesting. I also wonder if they're ever going to introduce Satan. So far, the show has been pretty non-denominational in...

Wait 'till sweeps!;)

Yeah, God the grammar nazi! I'm digging this show. If they don't drag the "woe betide me" plotline for the Jason Ritter character for too long, this has the potential to be one of the standout shows of the season. And how surprising for the new kid on the "Touched by an Angel" block to...

Yeah, I thought the father and the geeky younger brother seem to exist mostly to fill some stereotypical roles; but the mother, Joan, and Jason Ritter's character seem to be a little bit more complex. And I LOVED how they wrote God. I just hope that with next week's preview, they don't have...