Eli Stone has since about mid season 1 been an average series. I continued watching and it does have the occasional spike in quality (last week being quite good) but this episode was bad. The case of the week 'sex change priest sacked' was bad enough because you knew that Eli would easily win. The fact that this was a case not sent by higher powers (in fact he hasn't been having visions on his own lately) made me feel like they were shoe-horning in topical discussion just for the sake of it. Keith apologising for not going to Church meant nothing to me as I'm not religious but if I were, as long as the Priest was good at his job I couldn't give a toss if he had a sex change. Might be a little jarring at first but that's about it.
Eli's personal life felt like soap opera with his brother's fiance, soon to be wife, admitting she had feelings for Eli. The way that it was handled though placed blame right from the start, Beth grew more and more wary of why Eli was acting funny around her (that's what you get for messing with the dark arts of acupuncture). They may not have kissed but boo-hoo everyone's lonely now. Frustration on my side as it feels way too over-wrought.
Lastly is Taylor and Matt and their possible Downs Syndrome baby. Like with the priest story-line this felt shoe-horned in as topical discussion (without the actual discussion this time) for the sake of it. The fact that in the end it turns out that there are no complications makes the storyline extremely redundant as well. If it wasn't, then maybe I would have cared. I remember when the series started that it was fun and not over-wrought and frustrating. Whatever happened to those days and where are our musical numbers. I'll watch the last couple of episodes but if it's anything like this then I wouldn't be surprised if I don't like them.





