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Eli Stone offers a well-stirred mix of character comedy, relationship drama, legal cases and musical numbers.
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With these superb supporting players [Victor Garber, Tom Amandes, and Loretta Devine] helping drain away any potential drippiness from the show's magical-realist trappings, Eli Stone proves as solid as a rock.
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There's a strong supporting cast, including Loretta Devine as Stone's no-nonsense secretary, but the big attraction is Miller's Stone and his transformation from heartless corporate lawyer to protector of the little guy.
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Adorably quirky and emotionally surprising, Eli Stone is a legal drama the same way Pushing Daisies (how I miss it) is a mere whodunit.
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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.
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Effortlessly mixing drama and wit, mysticism and biting social commentary, there is a real glow to Eli Stone that will brighten your day and lift your spirits. That is a very rare thing on television.
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There’s a cynicism balancing the upbeat goofiness of Eli Stone.
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Lots of fun. The acting and comic timing, when called for, are tremendous - and Miller's got the heft to carry it off.
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It's hard not to like a show that extends its warmth even to characters you expect to be unsympathetic and that expands its entertainment vocabulary to music, dancing and flights of fancy.
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It's a formula nevertheless--one that renders Eli Stone engaging but not fully involving, particularly once the vision/trial/puzzled-looks-from-colleagues ground rules are established, based on a sampling of two subsequent hours.
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What makes the show worth watching are some old-fashioned character relationships; no single performance tears up the place, but together they make something interesting.
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Eli Stone, lightweight and proudly quirky.
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Eli Stone is not quite there yet; the characters are pretty thinly drawn in the first few episodes, and the law cases seem heavily tilted toward the "little guy" side.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 66 out of 80
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Mixed: 6 out of 80
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Negative: 8 out of 80
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TomO.Feb 1, 2008Evil 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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Oct 10, 2018
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Dec 17, 2012