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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 5208
Released: November 28, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
An average 16-year-old, Joan is going through the growing pains typical of any teenager. But after she and her family (Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Ritter, Michael Welch) relocate to Arcadia, her life gets especially interesting when God starts paying her visits.
Description of Joan of Arcadia - The Second Season:
For two years, CBS's Joan of Arcadia managed the neat trick of warming the heart, while keeping the gag reflex at bay. And for a family drama based around faith--and the lack thereof--preachiness was always in short supply. At the end of the first season, Joan (Amber Tamblyn) decides it's all in her head: God isn't really speaking to her. Over the summer, she attends a camp for troubled kids, and now she makes lamps. Her boyfriend, Adam (Christopher Marquette), is as confused as ever; he was just starting to believe her. While Joan questions God's existence, her mother, Helen (Mary Steenburgen), plans a return to the Catholic Church. To that end, she starts meeting with chain-smoking former nun Lilly (Constance Zimmer, Boston Legal) to help with her confirmation. Joan's father, Will (Joe Mantegna), older brother Kevin (Jason Ritter), and Helen must also contend with the lawsuit filed by the boy who caused Kevin's accident, while Joan's younger brother, Luke (Michael Welch), continues to see the surly Grace (Becky Wahlstrom) in secret.
New Arcadia arrivals include Will's controlling boss, Lucy (Annie Potts), Joan's "crazy camp" friend, Judith (Sprague Grayden), and enigmatic do-gooder Ryan (Wentworth Miller, Prison Break), who shares Joan's gift. Despite critical kudos and respectable ratings, Joan of Arcadia wasn't picked up for a third season, but its spirit lives on in such disparate shows as Medium, in which a woman communicates with the dead, and My Name Is Earl, in which a man goes around doing good deeds. This six-disc set features commentary by creator Barbara Hall, producer James Hayman, and writer Stephen Nathan. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Joan of Arcadia - The Second Season Reviews:
Wish there were more episodes to view 
2009-11-19 - Loved the series - couldn't wait to view the next episode,
Wish there were more episodes to view
Joan of Arcadia, 2nd season 
2009-09-13 - Love the portrayal of God being so accessible and real and practical. Actors all excellent in spite of the challenge of late 20 year-olds pretending to be high school students. Overall this was a special TV series that brought light into a medium with no shortage of darkness.
Love Joan of Arcadia
2009-09-12 - I loved the series and was so disappointed when it was taken off the air after only 2 short seasons and replaced with the series that starred Jennifer Love Hewitt. J of A was a totally fresh idea and had a wonderful message with each episode. I watched the entire first and second series and highly recommend them to others.
Excellent teen series
2009-08-26 - This is a wonderful series for pre-teens and teens about all the issues kids deal with through adolescence - school, peer pressure, family issues, faith, dating. Joan is the modern day Joan of Arc, and God speaks to her through random people she encounters. The characters and stories are great, acting is very good, it is drama and can be very funny. My 14 year old daughter loved the 1st series and just finished the 2nd series this summer. We were so sorry to see this series cancelled on TV. It was something we could enjoy together on Friday nights at the end of a long week, with good subject matter to talk about with your kid. Must have been too good for television!
Joan of Arcadia
2009-06-07 - This first-class show had too short a run. The episodes were poetic, amusing, compelling, down-to-earth, yet inspirational. Amber Tamblyn is a stand-out portraying an ordinary teenager in an extraordinary situation. Joe Mantegna and Mary Steenburgen play her parents with acting that is unusual in television for the level of grace, dignity and comic flair. They make you feel that you are watching a reality show, with cameras inside their lives. I would love to see this cast brought together again in a movie. This show is less about religion than it is about humanity.
