Christine Caruana
Reese27Pushing Daisies: Cancelled?!
February 2nd 2009 11:42
Sure this is old news now, but still. I feel strongly about it.
Here in Australia, most of us will never know the true glory that was Pushing Daisies, a series by the creator of another glorious and prematurely cancelled show, Dead Like Me. Either this guy has the worst luck, or he knocked up a studio executives daughter before she was legal and ever since her father has been out to kill every brilliant show that comes out of the poor guy. Because, seriously, they cancelled Pushing Daises?! What?!
So there was once a bull, and it ate some bull food, and then did a bull shit.
Dead Like Me, in case you missed it, was about an eighteen year old girl called George who was killed by a toilet seat from a re-entering space station and subsequently killed. Instead of crossing over, however, she is recruited into becoming a Grim Reaper with a motley crew of other dead people. Grim Reaper’s have the job of finding the person who is going to die, and touching them so that their souls go off to the right place.
It was such a good idea, and cancelled after two seasons. I recommend it to anyone though, to go and buy it and love it.
Pushing Daisies also deals with death, of course, but in a slightly different way. Ned is a pie maker who, at age 8, discovered that if he touched a dead thing it would come back to life. He also discovered that if he kept that newly undead thing alive for more than a minute, something else had to die to take it’s place. Finally, he discovered that if he ever touched it again, it would die again forever. He discovered all these things by accidently re-killing his mother, and in his adult hood owns and operates a pie shop (called The Pie Hole) in memory of the pies she would bake him.
The show kicks off with a private detective, Emerson Cod, discovering what Ned can do and blackmailing him into helping him solve unsolvable murders by touching dead people and asking who killed them, and then claiming the reward money. When Ned finds his childhood sweetheart is on the list, and dead, he brings her back and then can’t bear to kill her again. So, you know, he keeps her around. But of course, they cannot touch.
So we follow their wacky, and I do mean wacky, adventures as Ned bakes pies and resurrects people, Chuck (the childhood sweetheart) avoids her crazy, and I do mean crazy, aunts since they think she’s dead, Emerson Cod find murder mysteries, and Olive Snook, a waitress at The Pie Hole, stick her nose into everyone’s business and does her best to understand everything going on (which she never does). Oh, and of course, Ned and Chuck be totally in love but unable to touch.
Did I mention it’s shot in a strange overly colourful fantasy world? Well, it is, and it suits it.
Okay, sure I see that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But it was quirky, and funny, and sweet, and I liked it because it was so different. And now, of course, it’s gone. The ABC Network in the US has axed it, and yet According To Jim is into it’s 11 billionth season of dumb fuckery.
There was once a bull, and it ate a lot of bull food, and did the biggest bull shit that EVER WAS.
.
The worst part is that most of us won’t even know what we missed out on.
Here in Australia, most of us will never know the true glory that was Pushing Daisies, a series by the creator of another glorious and prematurely cancelled show, Dead Like Me. Either this guy has the worst luck, or he knocked up a studio executives daughter before she was legal and ever since her father has been out to kill every brilliant show that comes out of the poor guy. Because, seriously, they cancelled Pushing Daises?! What?!
So there was once a bull, and it ate some bull food, and then did a bull shit.
Dead Like Me, in case you missed it, was about an eighteen year old girl called George who was killed by a toilet seat from a re-entering space station and subsequently killed. Instead of crossing over, however, she is recruited into becoming a Grim Reaper with a motley crew of other dead people. Grim Reaper’s have the job of finding the person who is going to die, and touching them so that their souls go off to the right place.
Don't fear the reaper.
It was such a good idea, and cancelled after two seasons. I recommend it to anyone though, to go and buy it and love it.
Pushing Daisies also deals with death, of course, but in a slightly different way. Ned is a pie maker who, at age 8, discovered that if he touched a dead thing it would come back to life. He also discovered that if he kept that newly undead thing alive for more than a minute, something else had to die to take it’s place. Finally, he discovered that if he ever touched it again, it would die again forever. He discovered all these things by accidently re-killing his mother, and in his adult hood owns and operates a pie shop (called The Pie Hole) in memory of the pies she would bake him.
Don't go...
The show kicks off with a private detective, Emerson Cod, discovering what Ned can do and blackmailing him into helping him solve unsolvable murders by touching dead people and asking who killed them, and then claiming the reward money. When Ned finds his childhood sweetheart is on the list, and dead, he brings her back and then can’t bear to kill her again. So, you know, he keeps her around. But of course, they cannot touch.
So we follow their wacky, and I do mean wacky, adventures as Ned bakes pies and resurrects people, Chuck (the childhood sweetheart) avoids her crazy, and I do mean crazy, aunts since they think she’s dead, Emerson Cod find murder mysteries, and Olive Snook, a waitress at The Pie Hole, stick her nose into everyone’s business and does her best to understand everything going on (which she never does). Oh, and of course, Ned and Chuck be totally in love but unable to touch.
Did I mention it’s shot in a strange overly colourful fantasy world? Well, it is, and it suits it.
Okay, sure I see that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But it was quirky, and funny, and sweet, and I liked it because it was so different. And now, of course, it’s gone. The ABC Network in the US has axed it, and yet According To Jim is into it’s 11 billionth season of dumb fuckery.
There was once a bull, and it ate a lot of bull food, and did the biggest bull shit that EVER WAS.
.
The worst part is that most of us won’t even know what we missed out on.
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