Eli Stone "I Want Your Sex"

What do you think about Eli Stone? It's a new show since Jan. '08, Thursday nights on ABC (in the US, but also in Canada & Down Under...). It's fun. Jonny Lee Miller as Eli Stone is cool. The entire cast is cool. Great actors, including Victor Garber. The story line: Eli Stone is a lawyer at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. He is diagnosed with a brain aneurysm - which supposedly causes the visions or revelations he's getting about life and certain law cases. This new-found humility is a life-change for Eli - and those around him.

Each episode, Eli's visions include George Michael singing or the cast singing George Michael songs. The episodes are typically named after Michael songs. This past Thursday's episode, "I Want Your Sex", featured George Michael as a real life client of Eli Stone. (This time it was George Michael having dream visions of Eli Stone.) The end of the show included George Michael in concert. The "Heal the Pain" episode also had a glimpse of George Michael in concert.

I've a new found appreciation for George Michael. Victor Garber sang "Freedom" on the Eli Stone episode with the same name. Victor Garber has a gorgeous voice, and plays piano, but the first time I heard him singing George Michael, it seemed out of character. He is after all the head partner of the money-sucking law firm. Loretta Devine as Patti, Eli's administrative assistant, was awesome in her gospel-rendition singing for the Michael song and Eli Stone episode, "One More Try". For the Michael originals I went to YouTube. Here are the YouTube videos, for: "Freedom", "One More Try", and "I Want Your Sex".

Too bad if you missed Episode 1, when Eli scattered his father's ashes on the Himalayas. The scenery was splendid and Sherpas were preciously satirical (in subtitles)! I wish ABC would make the 1st episode available for viewing again. Since it aired, there was a real life legal case in Georgia suing a drug company by claiming the preservatives in a vaccine caused a child's autism. As in Eli Stone's case, the jury found for the plaintiff. The vaccine-autism controversy remains in the news.

Though you can watch Eli Stone replays at ABC online, unfortunately only the most recent four episodes are available. I often miss the TV show, but then watch it later online.