The premise that people too good for Hell but too bad for Heaven are returned to the world of the living to help save other souls was interesting...until you got to HOW they went about it.
==SPOILERS== It is basically the same Machiavellian approach used by the Inquisitions--no price is too high, no deed or method too vile as long as a soul is saved. As a result you have this undercurrent that the brutal methods of torture used by the Inquisitions against heretics and more importantly witches were JUSTIFIED running through every episode. The problem is this moral issue NEVER really comes up.
In terms of poor taste the execution is right down there with the concept of the infamous "Heil Honey I'm Home!" (The real world "Springtime for Hitler") In fact in one episode it was revealed that the relative of a Corp member saw an operation and tried to report what she saw--she was committed to an insane asylum and drugged up to the eyeballs for her troubles. The Corp is perfectly fine with leaving her to rot until surprise surprise an operation involves her and you can see the supposed "happy" resolution at the end a mile away...and it is as disgustingly Machiavellian with a coating of sugar as you'd expect.
I suspect (or at least hope) the low ratings were the result of the audience realizing just what message was being preached to them by this show and turning it off in disgust.
==SPOILERS== It is basically the same Machiavellian approach used by the Inquisitions--no price is too high, no deed or method too vile as long as a soul is saved. As a result you have this undercurrent that the brutal methods of torture used by the Inquisitions against heretics and more importantly witches were JUSTIFIED running through every episode. The problem is this moral issue NEVER really comes up.
In terms of poor taste the execution is right down there with the concept of the infamous "Heil Honey I'm Home!" (The real world "Springtime for Hitler") In fact in one episode it was revealed that the relative of a Corp member saw an operation and tried to report what she saw--she was committed to an insane asylum and drugged up to the eyeballs for her troubles. The Corp is perfectly fine with leaving her to rot until surprise surprise an operation involves her and you can see the supposed "happy" resolution at the end a mile away...and it is as disgustingly Machiavellian with a coating of sugar as you'd expect.
I suspect (or at least hope) the low ratings were the result of the audience realizing just what message was being preached to them by this show and turning it off in disgust.