Eli Stone is an American legal comedy-drama TV series, named for its title character. The series was created by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, who also served as executive producers alongside Ken Olin who directed the pilot, with Melissa Berman producing. The series originally aired on ABC from January 31, 2008 to July 11, 2009. Before the end of its second season, the series was not renewed by ABC and was effectively cancelled.
The series follows Stone (Jonny Lee Miller), a San Francisco lawyer who begins to have hallucinations (such as an unending George Michael soundtrack that only he can hear, getting dive-bombed by a WWI biplane on a busy San Francisco street, and glimpsing a fire-breathing dragon outside his office window), which leads him to two possible conclusions: a potentially fatal brain aneurysm, and the chance that something greater is at work. His visions lead him to accept cases with little monetary gain but a lot of moral goodness; Stone also predicts an earthquake that hits San Francisco. Other such events happen throughout the course of the series, however the series attracted relatively low ratings and was cancelled before reaching a proper conclusion.
The series has subsequently aired around the world to mixed popularity, and the first two seasons have been released on DVD in Region 1.
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“I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)