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Los Angelenos!! Want To See PUSHING DAISIES, Fall’s Best New Show, With An Audience Thursday?? (It's Free!!)
I am – Hercules!!
It’s always rare big fun to see great TV with an audience, and Disney has arranged a free Thursday screening of “Pushing Daisies,” for my money the fall’s funniest new show.
Bryan Fuller, who created “Daisies” (he also created “Dead Like Me” and “Wonderfalls” and wrote some of the best episodes of “Heroes” last season), will be on hand to introduce, as will “Men in Black” director Barry Sonnenfeld, who helmed the pilot.
It’s screening atop a lot of dead people, Rolling Roadshow-style, at cemetery adjacent to the Paramount lot:
8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
Space is limited, so we are advised to get there early.
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I caught the pilot for this and it looks to be one of the best shows this season. Very quirky and enjoyable.
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I know, I know- it's not as big a deal as being first, but I've never been second before, so there!
The show looks ok. Herc's recommendation has convinced me to check out an episode or two. -
This show really got on my nerves.
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Had an excellent Burtonesque look and feel about it. And it is plenty funny too. If Tim Burton did Desparate Housewives meets Ghost Whisperer it might look a bit like this.
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I'm one of the very, very few film geeks out there who really dislikes Tim Burton. I'm not a huge fan of Sonnenfeld, either. And I don't like quirky comedy [which this show seems to reek of.] So...I retract my previous enthusiasm, though I'll still give the show a chance, even if it doesn't sound like my thing.
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I found both shows entertaining, but I very much doubt it will last. It's got a great feel, but like a lot of shows that have such an odd approach, the characters seem kinda cartoony without depth. Maybe, they will overcome it -- Dead Like Me did -- but I doubt it.
I think the premise and style of Daisies would have made a great, very charming, fairy-tale like movie. -
I would say it's a far more obvious try at the style of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and 'Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain'.I enjoyed the pilot but I think it's limited, he's got a dog and girlfriend he can't ever touch. Maybe body condoms are in order.
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The guy makes money bringing the dead back to life, solving their murders, and collecting the reward. Couldn't he make more money just by having relatives pay him to resurrect?
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The only people who call Angelenos "Los Angelenos" are people who don't live in L.A.
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there is a plot device to prevent him from doing so:
He can only bring people back to life for 1 minute if he touches them once. If he touches them again, they'll live, but someone nearby (re: innocent) will die in their place. -
I enjoyed it and it was very stylishly shot by Sonnenfeld, but I could also imagine it getting very irritating with all that whimsy and childlike narration. I think it would have made a better film, really. Oh, and only Anna Friel made an impression on me, acting-wise. The others were rather bland.
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So catch the murderer, put him in the room with the body, touch the body, the murderer dies and the victim comes back to life. Viola. I assume that the hero is immune to his own double resurrection clause. The only real problem is that in most murder investigations, there's an autopsy. In an autopsy, a sample of brain tissue is taken and the rest gets flushed. So, anybody he brought back would be missing their brain. Obviously, the writer learned human anatomy watching old Bayer aspirin commercials.
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If Ned touches someone dead, they'll resurrect. If he touches them again, they'll die and stay dead forever. However, if Ned touches someone and does not touch them again within one minute, someone else in the vicinity will die.
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You love all these old Buffy writers.
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maybe I will enjoy this too. its by the same guy who did the flicks.
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...New York Magazine: "funny, imaginative and smart"... Televisionary: "surprises you with its dazzling beauty, pitch perfect cast, and its casual ability to create a whole world that you never want to leave."... Pilot Buzz Central: "beautifully filmed, carefully crafted, and well-acted."... TV Guide: "ABC has found its next Lost!"... Yep! This one's guaranteed be pulled after about 4 episodes!
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I'm tired of gratuitous CGI inserted to make shows seem creative and magical. I'm tired of quirky for quirky's sake. Most of all I'm tired of watching hyped pilots and either hating them or having them cancelled shortly after liking them, and I'm gussing one or the other will happen.
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so there's no one in the vicinity. Does Ned die? Does Death get pissed off with Ned for trying to bend the rules? What if Ned is caught touching himself?
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I'm not in LA and I'm becomming more intrigued about this show the more I hear about it.
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Maybe if it was screening someowhere inside... with some serious A/C.
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Oct. 3
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bring a jacket.
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this show does well. not only is the show great... bryan fuller deserves a fucking break.
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It's not on FOX, so that's encouraging, but Bryan Fuller has been cheated twice now and I fear that it won't change. It's amazing he keeps going while Joss Whedon, who had a fair amount of success before Firefly was killed and Angel cancelled out of spite, has quit. I hope this show is my cup of tea and that it stays for several season...and that Fuller stays on it and isn't pushed off like with Dead Like Me (although I think that show was good even after he left).
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The narration and cutsy plotting made me want to barf.
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It was envisaged as a sequel/spin-off of Dead Like Me.
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Sonnenfeld directed it with his usual wonderful visual flair. The pilot looks fantastic. But I'm worried that future directors won't be able to make the show so visually exciting and appealing. I remember when Sonnenfeld directed the pilot for The Tick. It was one of the smartest, funniest, and best looking shows I'd seen in years. The rest of the shows were good but never got anywhere near as great as the pilot. I hope the same thing doesn't happen with this or to the Kevin Smith directed pilot Reaper.
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If he touches someone who isn't dead and then doesn't touch them again within one minute, someone innocent dies? So the second touch then doesn't constitute a fresh touch, therefore all of his touches must come in multiples of two. So, when he has sex, does he have to end with an even number of thrusts??? Does touching through clothing count? What if the fabric is very thin, or has a hole? From the get-go, the rules of this world feel arbitrary, as in, not grounded in any mythology that the average culturally literate viewer could relate to.
Buffy, by contrast was simple, and sprang from very familiar vampire mythology. She's the "chosen one", she's strong, she kills vamps with a stake. Subtracted, more or less, is the old-school mind control element (which helped make Dark Shadows such fun). The fresh element Whedon mixes in is that to overpower the undead, a passing familiarity with martial arts may be beneficial. As they introduced fresh demons, much of the fun was in watching these characters figure out the rules to doing them in.
To the credit of the show's creators, on Reaper they at least divined and copied that part of the Buffy model for dealing with the supernatural. Okay, that and the self-aware pop culture references.
Pushing Daisies, unless there's something stupendous about this show I'm missing, may well quickly be doing just that. -
He can touch as many people as he likes who are alive, as long as they aren't people he's bought back from the grave with one touch. The second touch kills them permanently.
So:touch a dead person = back to lifeTouch them again = they die for goodIf he doesn't touch them within 1 minute = somebody random dies. -
But really, doesn't the Reaper have better things to do than keep jerking Ned?
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Is the main character the only one with the magical powers of bringing people back to life?
Will we at some point later in the story be introduced to an evil character that has a similar power? -
I loved the "girly" shows you did (Gilmore Girls, The OC) and I agreed with you on the quirky comedies (Arrested Development, Andy Barker) and of course the geeky shows (24, Heroes). But for the life of me, I can't see what's so great about Pushing Daisies. With the exception of Anna Friel, everyone seems to think they're in a middle school play. I kept expecting them to turn to the camera, wave, and mouth "Hi Mom!" And the narration gets to be too much within about 5 minutes (the little "life length" thing was cute the first time, but got tiresome almost immediately after that). And the central conceit of the show annoys me too. Ned really likes a girl, but can't touch her. Cue the groan worthy "special moments" they then have because of their lack of physical contact.
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Yes, this show is very much the bastard child of "Dead Like Me" and "Wonderfalls" but SO WHAT?! It's still more original than 99% of the tripe that we're spoon-fed on network tv.
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Is this some quote ABC/Bryan Fuller is forcing you to use, coz i've seen it in every damn related article
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Do they become undead and develop a taste for brains? Or what if he's working out at the gym and sweating a lot. If he forgets to wipe down the weight machine and the next person gets his sweat on them, do they die or just get really sick?
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I dont know there's so many bitter people on this board.
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At 9PM it was 80 degrees. The only guy I saw wearing a jacket was a pimp. The jacket was purple.
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Time will tell...
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... it comes back to life, doesn't touch the formerly dead person within 60 seconds (it was 60 seconds, right?)... another person dies. So he doesn't want that guilt on his conscience, so he touches the newly dead person whose death he caused by not touching the original dead person a second time and re-killing him/her. But then another 60 seconds go by without him touching the second formerly dead person in the series a second time (thereby re-killing that person)... and a third person then dies, so he touches that person and so on, and so on, and so on... and, he eventually dies of exhaustion chasing a wave dying people all over town to resurrect them all... or he goes bug-fuck insane (I know I would)! I liked Dead Like Me, but its internal logic was never very consistent. Though I have yet to actually see it, from what I hear, that appears to be the problem with this show as well.
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Too cutesy and stylized with annoying characters. And I LIKED wonderfalls.
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I saw it a few weeks ago and loved it. I just hope that people watch it instead of some reality show or dumb comedy that might be opposite it.
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The only reason I will watch this show. She's the most underrated actress. Watch her acting in Talk Radio, Lady Chance, Little Shop of Horrors, Glory ! Glory ! and even her small part in Heroes!
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Where she and Christopher Walken are the only attractions.
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It's cute, but I can't see how it could possibly last as a show. The cop character is completely wasted in that first episode. He needs a reason for being there, and fast.
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