Product Description From the creator of the award-winning series Deadwood comes HBO’s mystical, mysterious and provocative new drama. Just north of the border, in the tired coastal town of Imperial Beach, California, live three generations of Yosts: surfing royalty turned society misfits. The Yosts’ reign and reputation, once defined in the curl of a perfect wave, has been eroded by years of bad luck, addiction and hubris. But just as things are looking like they can’t get worse, a stranger named John arrives – and the Yosts’ banal existence is lifted into something profound, miraculous and, possibly, universal. From Amazon.co.uk The world conspired to give John From Cincinnati a single season run on television screens, courtesy of HBO. And yet, thanks to the endurance of the DVD format, it’s surely ripe for discovery by those who missed it first time round. It’s from David Milch, the creator of one of HBO’s finest ever shows, Deadwood. This time, though, it’s in the present day, and focused on the Yost family. Described as surfing-royalty-turned-society-misfits, the Yosts are a complicated family whose life changes when a stranger by the name of John walks into town. And that’s when things gets really very interesting, with often quite oddball events following in his wake. Starring Rebecca De Mornay, Bruce Greenwood and Austin Nichols, even in its weaker moments, it’s a fascinating and very ambitious show. It’s perhaps unsurprising that John From Cincinnati struggled to snare a mainstream audience though, given the sheer audacity of some of its thinking (and we’ve no intention of spoiling it here). There’s such a collision of ideas and subtexts here that it can be sometimes quite a job to keep on top of it all. But put the effort in, and the rewards, just as with Deadwood, are rich. It’s challenging, intelligent television, and even though we only got ten episodes of it, it’s hard not to be grateful for them. --Jon Foster