God Friended Me sounds like a good concept that shouldn’t have become an actual TV show. Yeah, the very idea that an outspoken atheist gets “friended” by God on Facebook is fun and original, and oh so ironic. But where do you go from there? The writers chose the boring, easy path: they made it a procedural -CBS likes to call it a light one-hour moral procedural- where our hero helps people by becoming some kind of God whisperer. And yeah, sometimes you think of Ghost Whisperer. They kinda work the same way, though police is not involved here. There’s no investigation, per say. “God” instantly sends Miles a friend suggestion for a complete stranger named John Dove (you got it? John Doe/John Dove – so fun!) Miles immediately bumps in to John, who is chasing after his ex-girlfriend who just broke up with him. Devastated by the break up, John tries to kill himself, but Miles saves him. Then Miles gets a new friend suggestion for another stranger named Cara Weiss… Long story short: the purpose was to reunite and reconcile a daughter -Cara- with her long-lost mother, who abandoned her when she was little. And when Cara is hit by a car, it’s John Dove who saves her, he happens to be a doctor. It’s all about coincidences, which are not because you know: God.
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