There are lots of reasons to watch a TV show. If you like to laugh without having to think (ever), you probably loved Friends, and now you’ve got How I Met Your Mother. If you like your entertainment to stretch your brain, you were probably really into X-Files, and you probably tune into Lost. Maybe you like to be inspired? You might have liked Touched By an Angel, except if you did, you were probably over the age of 40. Maybe now you like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. But after a while, the repetitive nature of EM:HE probably makes tuning each week redundant (or maybe blubbering like a little schoolgirl every week gets old…ehem). And if you’re anything like me, many moons have passed since you’ve grown tired of the cockamamie second-rate drivel that often gets passed off as “Christian” entertainment.

But there’s never really been a show like Eli Stone.