Ideas and Thoughts

According to ABC network (October the 20th) , the network will not continue buying episodes of the series. It will only purchase the 13 episodes of the 2nd season that were originally contracted. This practically means that Pushing Daisies will come to an end mid season.

It seems that ABC is following Fox’s foot steps ( Firefly ) and cancels one more great series that seems so very promising and different. I really cannot understand these people. As always the issue would be some sort of financial shortfall, but there is no indication of that assumption to be true.

This news come as a huge surprise to me, it’s plainly unfair.

Watch it: To make you feel nice and warm even when everything around you is gloomy. If you enjoyed Amelie and Time Burton’s movies or if you love Salvador Dali.

Scenario:    8.5
Script:        9.0
Acting:       8.5
Directing:   9.0
Visual/FX:  10.0
Overall:      45.5/50

Pros: Amazing Costumes
Boob-o-meter: very cold
IMDB | Pushing Daisies ABC

My thoughts

Pushing Daisies is a cute dramedy, a beautiful blend of romance, fantasy, mystery and all of these in a dreamland somewhere between the 50s and 20 years in the future. Pushing Daisies has a dazzling set so colourful that makes you happy the minute the episode begins. The photography is just amazing and I can’t help it and not mention the extraordinary Narration that accompanies the series giving to each episode the feeling of a childhood faerietale, the Grim “colourful” Brothers way. The series is currently in the beginning of it’s 2nd season and I highly recommend it.

Synopsis

From Bryan Fuller and Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) comes a critically acclaimed series with an unprecedented blend of romance, fantasy and mystery, Pushing Daisies, a forensic fairytale about Ned, a young man with a very special gift.

As a young boy Ned discovers that he can return the dead briefly to life with just one touch. But his random gift isn’t without deadly consequences& as he soon finds out. He discovers the rules of his gift early: First touch – alive; second touch – dead again, forever; Keep something alive for more than a minute and something else has to die in its place.

Grown up Ned (Lee Pace) puts his talent to good use by touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavor. He opens a pie shop. But his life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) discovers Ned’s secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases (and collect a hefty reward fee) by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers.

Then Ned is handed the case that changes his life forever. His childhood sweetheart, Charlotte “Chuck” Charles (Anna Friel), is murdered on a cruise ship under strange circumstances. Her death brings him back to his hometown of Coeur d’ Coeur to bring Chuck back to life, albeit briefly, and to solve the crime. But once reunited with Chuck, Ned can’t bring himself to touch her again.

Chuck becomes the third partner in Ned and Emerson’s PI enterprise, but she encourages them to use their skills for good, not just for profit. Ned is overjoyed to be reunited with Chuck, the only girl he’s ever loved. Life would be perfect, except for one cruel twist: If Ned ever touches her again, she’ll go back to being dead, this time for good.

True Blood is a new HBO series that really has to offer something different to the TV series collection of 2008/09. True Blood is a story about a fictional scenario that after the discovery of an artificial made blood (by some Japanese company) vampires come out of the closet and make their existance known to the world (since they don’t have to drink human blood anymore). The story evolves around the love story between Sookie (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress at a diner, who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).

True Blood is based on Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead Until Dark and directed by Alan Ball that you might know from Six Feet Under or American Beauty.

When I first saw True Blood’s pilot I almost burst to laughs, but while I took a deeper and better look in (Watching s01e02 and s01e03) my thoughts have changed a lot. The series might hold this “Luisiana” air but it has deeper questions and dillemmas that worth to be explored. Currently the series has 8 launched episodes. My personal opinion is to give this Vampire Romance a chance.

For more information:

Official True Blood Site, IMDB, Wikipedia

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