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Pushing Daisies…another great show (with a positive message)
beingzoe 2008-06-20 00:29:21 UTC

After all this talk about the show Dexter, I thought I would share something a little more wholesome and entertaining for the whole family.

Pushing Daisies is an amazing show in all ways. While death is a prominent motif of the show, it is actually an exploration of what it means to be alive and just how precious life is.

From the ABC description of the show:

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 gift leaves him wary of becoming close to anyone, as beautiful waitress Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth) finds out. His life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) finds out about Ned’s secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases (and collect the hefty reward fees) 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’ Coeurs to bring Chuck back to life, albeit briefly, and solve the crime. But once reunited with Chuck, Ned can’t bring himself to send her back. He helps her escape after her grieving aunts, Lily and Vivian (Swoosie Kurtz, Ellen Greene), former synchronized swimmers Darling Mermaid Darlings, think they’ve buried her forever.

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 he ever touches her again, she’ll go back to being dead, this time for good.

I absolutely adore this show. It is touching and moving, and nearly brings me to tears that Ned and “Chuck” are destined to love each other forever, but can never touch. This show gives hope for the flowers.

Apart from being an amazingly well produced show, the cinematography is astounding, the writing and acting highly stylized, and generally a work of genius broadcast television doesn’t deserve!

Watch the preview above, and then watch the show. The next season isn’t until the fall I think so you have plenty of time to get caught up!

You really need to watch this musical interlude where Olive sings, Hopelessly devoted to you from one of the early Pushing Daisies episodes.