- Audience-Alienating Premise: Not a lot of people wanted to tune in to see the answer to the question "What if God tried to reach out to us by sending an autistic messenger to a bunch of drugged-out surfers?"
- Diagnosed by the Audience: John seems to be challenged or autistic in some way, but of course it's hard to tell since he probably isn't human...
- Narm: One example is when Butchie calls his ex-girlfriend on the cell phone and insults her, making her hang up in his face. A few minutes later, he calls her again only to repeat the same insult. He repeats the process a few times.
- The Scrappy: Cissy Yost is generally disliked due to being a one-note shrew who goes around screaming at people. More than a few critics took issue with Rebecca DeMornay's performance and pointed out that she seems to have had too much work done on her face to adequately convey emotion.
- Tough Act to Follow: David Milch hit big with Deadwood, which achieved a lot of cultural saturation in spite of not being a ratings powerhouse. Neither of Milch's follow-up series, this show or Luck (2011), made it to a second season.
- The Woobie: Barry Cunningham.
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