Miracle Workers: It Would Take a Miracle to Make It Non-Heterosexist

Miracle Workers is a much hyped short comedy series set in Heaven, Inc., where doofus angel Craig (Daniel Radcliffe) is the only worker in the Answered Prayer division.  He is forbidden from using magic to answer prayers, so he manipulates natural elements to reveal lost gloves and keys.

When young, idealistic Eliza (Geraldine Viswanathan) is transferred from the dirt division, she pushes to answer more challenging prayers, but they always come with unintended consequences.

Meanwhile God (Steve Buscemi), a drunken slacker who hasn't done any real management work in thousands of years, decides to destroy Earth to make way for his new get-rich-quick scheme (an Asian fusion restaurant).  Craig and Eliza make a deal: if they can answer the most impossible of impossible prayers, he'll let the Earth survive.  They get God's harassed assistants (Karan Soni, top photo, Lolly Adefope) to help.

And what is the most impossible of impossible prayers?  Peace in the Middle East?  A reversal of global warming?

 Which is -- wait for it --

Getting a man and a woman to fall in love.  Specifically, God demands for them to have sex.

I agree that it sounds difficult -- what could a man and a woman possibly have in common?   Even if they were compatible socially, how could they possibly do anything sexual?  The man would have to become aroused in the presence of a woman, which I'm pretty sure could never happen.

But this particular man (Jon Bass, left) and woman (Sasha Compere) have already been on a date, they like each other, and each has prayed for "it to work out" with the other.  They've already expressed romantic interest.  Now all Craig and Eliza have to do is steer them through dates #2 and #3, and into the bedroom.

I was watching because I found the idea of heaven as a business, with a slacker God at the helm, amusing.  Besides, Daniel Radcliffe is so likeable, I'd watch him in anything.  But at that point I turned it off in disgust.  The entire force of Heaven invested in hetero-romance?  How heterosexist can you get?

I should have realized that the series would be about True Love.  It's an adaption of a novel by Simon Rich, who also wrote Man Seeking Woman.

Like it's hard for men to meet women.  There are women everywhere.

It was turned into a tv series with Jay Baruchel as the Man.  He gets supernatural assistance,too: the cast includes a variety of mythical beings, including Cupid, Mrs. Santa Claus, Jesus Christ, Zeus, Apollo, the Grim Reaper, and Gay Man #1.