Joan of Arcadia - Season 2 with Amber Tamblyn: DVD Cover
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Joan of Arcadia - Season 2 Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Chris Marquette, Michael Welch, Becky Wahlstrom

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  • DVD Release Date: 11/28/2006
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A look at season 2; The making of "Queen of the Zombies"; A tour of Joan's high school; "Common Thread": A table read; Audio commentaries by Barbara Hall, James Hayman and Stephen Nathan

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Despite earning critical acclaim and several Emmy nominations for its first season, Joan of Arcadia struggled to maintain an audience during its sophomore season, which proved the last for this spiritually themed drama. Amber Tamblyn (daughter of West Side Story dancer Russ) stars as Joan Girardi, a high school junior who talks to God, who appears to her in various guises: delivery guy, student on the school bus, groundskeeper, etc. God tasks Joan with challenges that are designed to open her eyes to bigger problems; a call to support a candidate for school government, for instance, leads her to a discovery of dirty tricks on the trail. Season 2's early episodes follow the pattern set in Season 1, focusing on Joan's immediate family: her father Will (Joe Mantegna); mother Helen (Mary Steenburgen); older brother Kevin (Jason Ritter), confined to a wheelchair after a drunken driving accident; and younger brother Luke (Michael Welch) -- as well as her boyfriend, Adam (Chris Marquette). The ratings-challenged series shifts gears a bit midway through the year, though, focusing almost exclusively with Joan's teenage friends at school. CBS still wound up cancelling the show, but not before creator Barbara Hall had planned a third season -- and wrote the Season 2 finale "Something Wicked This Way Comes" to reflect that. In what turned out to be the series' finale, Joan faced a stranger who could also converse with God (a pre-Prison Break Wentworth Miller), a man who was rumored to be a recurring character representing the Devil in Season 3. Christina Urban, Barnes & Noble

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Joan of Arcadia, the most overlooked, brilliant tv series cancelled way too early!by Anonymous

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July 14, 2009: I have re-watched the episodes of both seasons over and over again and see something new each time. This series was brilliantly written, with humour, pathos, inventiveness, and life lessons in every episode. I literally mourned when it was cancelled. It ran on Friday nights and never had a chance to pick up the audience it deserved. I think people expected it to be religious, but it was philosophical and touched a very broad spectrum of human behaviour, while having a very positive outlook on human potential.

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Great seriesby Anonymous

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August 17, 2007: Joan of Arcadia addresses questions we all ask or ponder at times. God, his creation, his sovereignty, what does all these mean in our daily lives, .... I love the show because I can identify with the struggles and questions that Joan "the main character in the show" was going through.