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Joan of Arcadia
TV Series (2003 - 2005)
Millions of people speak to God. What if God spoke back? Life just got a hell of a lot more confusing for teenage Joan Girardi and her police chief father, her somewhat overbearing mother, her geeky younger brother and former football star older brother, now paralyzed. They'd never believe her if she told them that God is talking to her.
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02x22 Something Wicked This Way Comes Aired: Apr. 22, 2005God tells Joan that her last two years were just practice for her greatest challenge, which will be to face off against a mysterious man who, … [continue reading]
Series Info
Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Sep. 26, 2003
Status:
Completed/Ended
Runtime:
60 min.
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Series Fun Facts
- Show creator Barbara Hall wrote a list of guidelines for the writers, which she called "The Ten Commandments of Joan of Arcadia". These "commandments" are: - 1. God cannot directly intervene.…
[show]Show creator Barbara Hall wrote a list of guidelines for the writers, which she called "The Ten Commandments of Joan of Arcadia". These "commandments" are: - 1. God cannot directly intervene. - 2. Good and evil exist. - 3. God can never identify one religion as being right. - 4. The job of every human being is to fulfill his or her true nature. - 5. Everyone is allowed to say "no" to God, including Joan. - 6. God is not bound by time. This is a human concept. - 7. God is not a person and does not possess a human personality. - 8. God talks to everyone all the time in different ways. - 9. God's plan is what is good for us, not what is good for him. - 10. God's purpose for talking to Joan, and everyone, is to get her (us) to recognize the interconnectedness of all things - i.e., you cannot hurt a person without hurting yourself; all of your actions have consequences; God can be found in the smallest actions; God expects us to learn and grow from all our experiences. However, the exact nature of God is a mystery, and the mystery can never be solved.
[hide] - While shooting the first kiss and the start of the relationship between Luke ('Michael Welch') and Grace (Becky Wahlstrom), Welch was 16 and Wahlstrom was 28 - an age difference that in real…
[show]While shooting the first kiss and the start of the relationship between Luke ('Michael Welch') and Grace (Becky Wahlstrom), Welch was 16 and Wahlstrom was 28 - an age difference that in real life would make a relationship illegal in many U.S. states.
[hide] - In the first season, scenes involving Joan's part-time job at a local bookstore were filmed at Skylight Books, an independent bookstore in Los Angeles, chosen in part for its "distinct visual…
[show]In the first season, scenes involving Joan's part-time job at a local bookstore were filmed at Skylight Books, an independent bookstore in Los Angeles, chosen in part for its "distinct visual personality". Recognizing that continued filming on location at Skylight Books would cause further disruption to the store and its neighborhood, a set was converted into a bookstore for the second season. Design elements were used in the making of the bookstore set that are more commonly found on the East Coast.
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