Pushing Daisies on ABC (Mondays) is fun, cute and unique. A few years ago, one of my favorite shows got cancelled. I can't remember which cable network it was on but, it was called Dead Like Me and was just pure entertainment. It only aired for maybe 2 seasons but, I looked forward to watching it every week!
I think that I read somewhere that Pushing Daisies was conceived as sort of a spin off of Dead Like Me. Or, at least it was conceived in the spirit of Dead Like Me. And, I think that its conception was started before Dead Like Me was cancelled. If this is accurate...Bravo! Well done! Pushing Daisies is quirky! That narrator takes me back to childhood as he reminds me of the guy who narrated The Grinch That Stole Christmas (the original cartoon, not the movie). Pushing Daisies has this sort of fantasy like living cartoon look. It is colorful and the relationship between the Pie Maker and Chuck is adorable.
I was up in the air about Pushing Daisies but, it keeps drawing me in instead of pushing me further away.
While it may have been a work in the spirit of Dead Like Me, it has some stark contrasts to that long "Dead" show. It is not as macabre with tons more humor. The biggest similarity? Both succeeded in making me a captive audience!
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