# John From Cincinnati Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-from-cincinnati-question/504599>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 28, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-from-cincinnati-question/504599 "2009-07-28T21:24:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Storm\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Storm\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Storm_Girl)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-from-cincinnati-question/504599/1 "2009-07-28T21:24:24Z")

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I know there’s not a lot of love for the HBO series John From Cincinnati here on the Dope, but does anyone here know what the whole point of it was? I never did figure out if John was an alien or the second coming or what! Tried to Google it up, but couldn’t find any definitive answers.

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-from-cincinnati-question/504599/2 "2009-07-28T21:53:16Z")

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Milch explains it [here](http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/david-milch-on.html) (if you can call anything from Milch an “explanation”.

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**Author:** ![Storm\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Storm\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Storm_Girl)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-from-cincinnati-question/504599/3 "2009-07-29T20:12:16Z")

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Thanks AuntiePam!

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**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-from-cincinnati-question/504599/4 "2009-07-29T20:19:31Z")

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So John was…9/11?

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-from-cincinnati-question/504599/5 "2009-07-29T20:24:44Z")

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Who knows? I thought John was a messenger from God, only God didn’t bother to show him how to communicate. Or maybe John was mentally challenged. Hard to say.