• Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 31, 2008
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 75 Ratings

  • Summary: A San Francisco lawyer begins seeing things including George Michael.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Suspense
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 24
  2. Negative: 4 out of 24
  1. Eli Stone offers a well-stirred mix of character comedy, relationship drama, legal cases and musical numbers.
  2. 80
    It's hard to say which is more unlikely: That a corporate legal fang could be God's prophet; or that the Almighty would spread His word through visions of George Michael; or these matters could be blended into a daffily funny and affecting television show.
  3. 60
    Eli Stone is another lawyer hour disguised as feel-good rehabilitation fluff, with Eli now compelled to use his sharklike courtroom mojo to take up the causes of wronged underdogs against the kinds of heartless corporate clients his blue-chip firm typically represents.
  4. It's not the worst thing you've ever seen, innocuous entertainment (despite the inoculation controversy) that, like Boston Legal, includes the occasional entertaining musical number.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 44
  2. Negative: 5 out of 44
  1. 10
    My wife and I have watched 17 episodes so far and we're having trouble understanding why it had such a short run. The characters are real and likable, the casting seems very good, the individual scenes seem well-directed, the story lines are compelling, there seem to be enough little surprises to keep the viewers on their toes and the vision sequences offer the cast a chance to act out of character allowing them a way to expand. I wish there were more episodes. Expand
  2. JenniferE.
    8
    This show is very funny and uplifting.
  3. CharlesH.
    6
    This started off pretty well but gets a little dumber each week. The first week I thought it had just a little of Pushing Daisies quirkiness, but by week 3 I thought it had way too much Picket Fences contrived preciousness. I think the little flap about autism in the first episode underscores what I'm increasingly noticing, which is this show doesn't really care if anything in it is realistic or makes basic sense. The best fantasies make everything outside the fantasy itself convincing; if nothing in the show seems realistic then his visions are just another dumb thing in the show. Expand
  4. TomO.
    4
    Evil corporations -- pharma no less! -- are just a progressive cliches in scripts no more insightful than these. It's boring and predictable.

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