Joan of Arcadia - The First Season (2005, DVD)

It's heartwarming and up lifting...and always interesting! One of the best tv shows of all time. It doesn't tell you what to believe in, it just gives new ideas and makes you think.

Very geat show, unfortunately this is the last season, joan is not an average teenager and has interesting problems, there also some humor in the series in some kind of nice funny cynical way. great actors, great series! if you like this you hould also watch season two!

I loved Joan on TV but this DVD set was only average. It had some deleted scenes and some commentary but the menus were very plain with no "previously on" or episode descriptions.

This show is charming and thought provoking. it is an excellent way to raise questions about God and God's work in the world, as well as our response and responsibility. Fun and good to chew on.

Not just entertaining but has some moral values tied to this
TV show with some twists and turns. Just found it to be interesting. I actually bought this DVD for a friend who was homebound for awhile. I bought this DVD when it first came out but did not want to give up my copy. Buying a season of shows is much better than a movie, enjoy having the different eposides to watch. Felt the
actors had some merit and did a great acting job...I also own the 2nd season which is also out in DVD and would recommned that also.

Pertinent issues of great values address. Both parents working has reduced the amt of time for such exchanges. Makes it do able.

This show was so refreshing while on TV. I don't know why it didn't last longer than it did. The show was entertaining, perfect for families, and thought-provoking. I absolutely LOVED the show, and the DVD has been no disappointment. The seller was FANTASTIC with an accurate description and fast shipping. Check out this series. Whether or not you saw it on TV, it would be a great DVD set to add to your family's collection. It will not disappoint!

This tv show is acutally courageous enough to address real spiritual issues in ways that are provocative, relevant, human, and entertaining. The acting is great. The writing is amazing. And the stories of this family are so compelling, I want to keep watching the next show to see what happens to them. In fact, I just bought Season II.

The "God stuff" is actually not sappy or preachy - it comes down to universal themes about how to be a fofrce for good in your life. Also, since I work in a high school, I appreciate how real the teenagers and their problems are portrayed. Because it's got some great family themes, I just bought a copy of Season 1 for my sister, a single mom with a 10 yr old girl.

I recommend Joan of Arcadia to anyone who likes thinking about spiritual issues, life issues, is challenging and interesting ways, anyone who works with teens or is a parent of a teen, or anyone who's sick of the typical Hollywood approach to making tv programs. I don't know why it went off the air after only 2 seasons.

PS the commentaries are also interesting

This is a great show that has good values and moral lessons. It is one of the few shows that I really enjoy watching with my kids.

I loved this show during its short run on CBS. Be careful, this is a spiritually oriented series, but without being doctrinal. This way, it will probably offend those viewers on both extremes of the spiritual spectrum.

But I loved its simple premise of God calling Joan, your regular middle class high school student, to a new task each week. What makes the story lines work, is that Joan, like any of us, asks God, "why" does he need us to do these particular things at the particular time. Instead of answering, Joan is asked to step out in faith. The end result is always an unexpected blessing to someone in Joan's life, a blessing she could have never seen until she actually did what God asks her to do. Now this sounds real religious, but the fact that God appears in the guise of everyday people and asks for everday service keeps the show "real" and applicable. The acting was great and Amber Tamblyn was wonderful as Joan.

Too bad the viewship was so low, but then again, Friday night, rather than the old Touch by an Angel slot on Sunday night, was not good. (Look what happened when CBS moved Angel to Saturday nights) In an attempt to gain a wider viewership, the writers took the second season in a new direction, and I didn't like as much.

I LOVE JOAN OF ARCADIA, THIS IS A GREAT BUY. AND ON EBAY YOU CAN GET IT CHEAPER. I BOUGHT THIS FOR MY DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY . IT ARRIVED ON TIME AND IT WAS JUST THE BEST. ME AND MY DAUGHTER WATCH THIS SHOW THE WHOLE TIME IT WAS ON TELEVISION AND IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YOU HAVE TO WATCH. BUT ONLY IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD. IT SHOWS YOU HOW HE USES PEOPLE TO DO MIRACLES AND THINGS. I HAVE NO COMPLAINTS ABOUT IT I LOVE IT.

This was a great show on for only two seasons that entertained you, but most importantly made you think, see that people and situations that come up in life are no always what they seem to be on the surface. We as humans were given free will to make decisions in life that have short term and long term effects on us. We choose to take roads that are not always good for us or others in our lives. Many things in my life that I made the choice to do or not to do that went wrong, I learned to see I had the choice and I need to except the responsibility for the action, not blame anyone else. The ability to think and free will is what seperate us humans for the animals and this is a gift that needs not to be taken lightly. I also learned to stop taking burdens placed on me by people that make bad choices for their lives like drinking or drugs, they need to make the decision to change and until they do or seek help for it they are causing the problems out of the choices they made or make. Great show that is not preachy just thought provoking and it is hard not learn something from each show. I decided to buy it to help with people in my life who are effecting many others lives with their choices and have found a lot help from it, it is a must for all young people learning to grow up and make their own decisions.

Brilliant!

When the show was first promo'ed and then aired I was very intrigued but very skeptical. My question was, "What are they really going to portray with an "interactive divinity"?"

After four weeks of critical viewing, I loved it! The Truth portrayed was often profound... and fun, the family roles and interaction real, and for television, unique! For example, the father, Will Girardi, was a man of character, loving, thoughtful, a protector, and human, not the village idiot.
Unfortunately, the vocal Christian community, or at least the "spokesmen", were either offended or neutral on the show. I think we were again led astray by narrow minded leaders (read pharisee) who judged before fully evaluating the project.

The insights into the development of the project and the creative goals found in the Special Feature voiceover commentary of the Pilot by Creator, Barbara Hall, and Director, James Hayman were fascinating.

Who am I? I dutifully confessed Jesus as Lord as a child, a Presbyterian, fifty years ago and quickly became the Prodigal's son, returned home to serve Him as a Evangelical eighteen years later, was baptised into Pentecost twenty nine years ago, and yet finally surrendered to His love four or five years ago. The last thing I would want to be accused of is being religious. Jesus was anything but. I believe God hates religion, and so do I. He's a Person, not a set of rules.

I'm sad that Miss Hall and the other writers did not have more opportunity to develop this story, but I'm grateful that the DVD's are available, and 2nd season coming.

Don't miss this.