Eli Stone: I Want Your Sex

This epsidoe I was asked to believe that A) George Michael would bother getting involved with a teenage girl expelled from school for disrupting an assembly, and B) that there would ever be a court case as ridiculous as the judge taking his son to court to force him to donate bone marrow. I'll start with the bone marrow case.

First, the character of the judge is incredibly unlikable. Still, the tone of the episode was asking the viewers to feel sympathy for the guy and see his point of view. That was impossible. He was a complete jerk, he abandoned his son when he was two and his only reason for taking his kid to court was because, as the judge stated it, "I want to live." What a selfish man. Regardless of this fact, the episode never actually set up why such a case would even be legal. And if they did and I missed it, it just goes to show how poorly the legal stuff comes across in this show. At no time did I ever believe this case would ever actually take place, which eliminated all the drama. When the presiding judge declared that there was no legal precedent to force one person to give their body parts to another, after the lawyers closed their arguments, I nearly shouted "No s**t," to the television screen. This was a complete waste of a B storyline.

Not that the A storyline was any better. The series obviously has a thing for George Michael. Eli's first vision was of the singer, the episodes are all titled with a George Michael song and he's already made two guest appearances. Finally given a major guest role, the singer did fine playing himself. George Michael, after a prolific dream, hired Eli to help get a high school student reinstated after being expelled for disrupting an abstinence seminar by playing Michael's "I Want Your Sex."

I was expected to accept that George Michael had this vision leading to Eli and then… that's it. No further investigation by Eli, no questioning what happened in the dream. After such a huge statement like that you'd expect… something! Instead, it was simply stated, accepted and everyone moved on. Hard to believe.

The episode threw in plenty of extra stuff, like Matt Dowd's one night stand with Taylor, and Nate dating Beth, Eli's old college flame from the first episode. Slightly entertaining was Jordan's "fan boy" behavior around George Michael. Less entertaining was the message the episode tried to get across about sex education in the schools and how great America is and goodness knows what else George Michael was talking about. But even with all the added material, I can't get past the fact that as I'm watching Eli Stone, I find it to be the most unrealistic show about a man experiencing visions from God that I've ever seen.