 He seems as a loving, smart, serious, strategic, all-seeing, father, that observes events play out, but ignores them unless he absolutely needs to fix something 

One new portrayal of God was in the television series "Joan of Arcadia".In that series, God is portrayed, in accordance with the programme's theme song (Joan Osborne's "One of Us"), as simply a proverbial "stranger on a bus".God is portrayed as taking on human form in a wide variety of shapes, from a piano tuner to a telephone repairman.