* AudienceAlienatingPremise: 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?"
* DiagnosedByTheAudience: John seems to be challenged or autistic in some way, but of course it's hard to tell since he probably [[AmbiguouslyHuman 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.
* TheScrappy: 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.
* ToughActToFollow: David Milch hit big with ''Series/{{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 ''Series/Luck2011'', made it to a second season.
* TheWoobie: Barry Cunningham.
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