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Eli Stone: Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 31, 2008
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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Metascore
62 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 72 Ratings

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  • Summary: A San Francisco lawyer begins seeing things including George Michael.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 24
  3. Negative: 4 out of 24
  1. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    100
    Eli Stone offers a well-stirred mix of character comedy, relationship drama, legal cases and musical numbers.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    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.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    30
    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 43
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 43
  3. Negative: 5 out of 43
  1. Vinnygc
    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
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  2. NormD.
    5
    Wow...Ally Mcbeal with a hairpiece! And spot all the has been actors in supporting roles!!! Is that Pamela Reed as his mom? Wasn't she just recently playing the quirky looking love interest? Note: episode 2 will feature Andrew Ridgely as the dancing baby… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JasonS.
    3
    Instead of leaving open the central question of the show, is Eli really having visions or is it all a consequence of his medical condition, the producers have opted to say magic is real! Thus abandoning any pretence of a show written for adults. The central premise could have lead to a really in depth look at someone losing touch with reality and doubting himself, a la ''A Beautiful Mind" but instead we get "Ali McBeal" There is also a very strong anti-science bias in the show, and there really is too much of that already.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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