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.

Will we at some point later in the story be introduced to an evil character that has a similar power?