Season 2 • Episode 22
LatestRyan gets a second chance to return to his teenage years to prevent his father, a successful doctor, from having a heart operation which led to him being brain damaged. He always blamed himself as he had talked his father into having the proceedure. Mr. Smith gets to spend time with them and Rachel, Ryan's sister, lets him know who she thinks he really is: their guardian angel. Despite Ryan's pleading, his father still goes ahead with the surgery, this time with no complications and Ryan's finds himself not as a doctor - but as a priest, which he had always wanted to be.
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.
Acting
Al Waxman grumpy divine authority energy
Writing
Case-of-the-week with actual emotional stakes
Creator
Steve Sohmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Toronto but set nowhere specific, giving it that eerie 'Canadian afterlife' aesthetic before Schitt's Creek made it cool.
Part of a bizarre 90s TV trend where death was just a workplace comedy waiting to happen—see also: Dead Like Me, The Collector.
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