This six-disc boxed set includes all 23 episodes from the first season of the Emmy-nominated television series. If you didn't watch this show on CBS, here is an opportunity to see it. Barbara Hall is the executive producer.
Joan (Amber Tamblyn) is going to high school in the small town of Arcadia. She seems like a typical teenager — except that she regularly has conversations with God. God appears to Joan in the people around her — a cute boy at school, a chess master, a street sweeper, a dog walker, an overweight student, a Pizza deliveryman, a substitute teacher, a homeless man, a little girl, and many others. Usually the first clue that it's God who's speaking is when he or she calls Joan by her name. In each episode, Joan has to learn to trust God and then act.
She might be told to take a class, get a part-time job, volunteer with children, have a garage sale, go out for cheerleading, join the debate team, and even build a boat. Sometimes her only function is to set something else in motion. To her continual frustration, God never gives Joan reasons for her assignments nor offers instructions on how to do them. She has to learn to live with mystery and exercise her free will. And again and again, she learns that the divine is present in the lives of those closest to her.
These scripts are filled with bits of wisdom and surprising epiphanies that help us recognize the sacred in everyday life.
Extras on the DVDs include audio commentaries on five episodes by the filmmakers and cast, two behind-the-scenes featurettes, and a gallery of the various ways God appears in the series.
