Re: Joan Of Arcadia too subtle for American audiences?

There have been 41 episodes shown so far, I believe. The show is good
enough, but it doesn't have the depth to keep going this long, which
is why Season Two seems worse than Season One ... what else does this
show have that we haven't already seen? The subplots involving the
parents are less interesting than the main storylines featuring Joan
.... ten episodes in, it wasn't so bad, but 40 episodes in, it's hard
to care about that part of the show devoted to mostly uninteresting
cop drama that has done better elsewhere. And the attempt to create
interest in the adults by forcing changes in their life that are not
integral to their characters but are merely designed to create
something new in a show that is already getting stale gets irritating
over time. (He's a chief of police, no, he's a detective ... she's a
housewife, no, she's a teacher, no, she's gonna be an artist.)

The first time Joan talks to God and acts on God's wishes, it's pretty
interesting. The tenth time, the growth in the character and her
ongoing relation****p to God is intriguing. Her crisis of faith at the
end of Season One was touching. But at this point, what do we have?
The same thing we've seen 41 times before: God asks Joan to do
something, she does it grudgingly, it turns out different than she
expected, repeat next week. Meanwhile, the rest of the show just isn't
very special: standard high-school drama combined rather clunkily with
standard cop drama and standard home-life drama.

It's not about the treatment of God, subtle or not ... it's about a
show that passed its usefulness some time ago but is still on anyway.
Me, I'm still watching out of habit, but if it gets a third season, I
don't know that I'll return.

Steven