Tuesday, April 05, 2016

19 Reasons We Need "Pushing Daisies" Back On TV Immediately

19 Reasons We Need "Pushing Daisies" Back On TV Immediately

10 comments:

Jeff Meyerson said...

Not.

pattinase (abbott) said...

Gosh, that was cute. For a little while.

Jeff Meyerson said...

Exactly! I liked it at first, even though my "whimsy" quotient isn't very high. But once you saw the premise, and that it was never going anywhere because it couldn't go anywhere, it was just rearranging the furniture. I liked Anna Friel a lot, also Chi McBride's cynicism and Kristen Chenoweth, but I could never warm to Lee Pace. Too soft, too gooey.

Jeff Meyerson said...

If you want a show about "pushing daisies" and grim reapers, my taste runs much more to the too soon departed (sorry, couldn't resist) DEAD LIKE ME on Showtime, with Ellen Muth, Mandy Patinkin (at his least annoying), Jasmine Guy, Callum Blue, and Laura Harris.

Jeff Meyerson said...

I had no idea there was a direct-to-DVD movie made of DEAD LIKE ME after the series was canceled. I'm buying the complete boxed set.

Whoopee!

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Don Coffin said...

Tre Six Feet Under; it's terrific. (I know nothing about Pushing Daisies, or Dead Like Me,)

Unknown said...

Judy loved SIX FEET UNDER.

Jeff Meyerson said...

Dead Like Me - a sullen 18 year old girl is killed by a falling toilet from the space station. Instead of moving on, she becomes a "grim reaper" who has to go help the newly dead movie on to wherever they are going next. Mandy Patinkin plays her boss who gives her assignments. But the job isn't paying so she has to look for a paying job to meet the rent. (Another reaper, Jasmine Guy, is a meter maid, while some steal from the dead. They meet at a local diner for pancakes and to get their assignments.

I liked it a lot.

Don Coffin said...

DLM sounds interesting; Mandy Patinkin is usually brilliant.