This is the best show that you probably never saw.
Dead revival powers + lighthearted mysteries + awkward (and dangerous) romance = Pushing Daisies.
BQB here with yet another TV review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fliFS-BfGZ0
It often astounds me what the network suits decide should be cancelled and what should stay on. It was truly a “grave” (ha, puns!) injustice that this show didn’t get more seasons.
How to explain it?
As a child, Ned learns he has a mysterious, supernatural power – he can bring the dead back to life with his touch.
Of course, nothing is that simple and there are some catches:
- If he brings a dead someone or some thing back to life, a live someone or some thing in the surrounding area will die to balance things out.
- If he touches the revived dead again, he/she/it will die again, this time permanently, and the touch will not work on that subject again.
As an adult, Ned (Lee Pace) has opened up his own pie show, “The Pie Hole” but it is failing financially.
So, he teams up with private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride). Ned touches murdered people, he and Emerson ask them how they died and (hopefully if they know, who killed them). They only have sixty seconds to make their inquiries and then Ned must touch the person before someone else in the area dies in the revived dead person’s place.
Emerson then passes it all off as though he solved the crime through his masterful detective skills and splits any ensuing reward money with Ned.
The situation becomes complicated when his childhood friend Charlotte aka “Chuck” (Anna Friel) returns to her hometown, but not as Ned would have hoped.
Chuck has been murdered, but when her body is shipped home for burial, Ned brings her back to life.
Chuck is grateful and joins in Ned and Emerson’s crime solving routine. Alas, Ned and Chuck must figure out a way to keep their romance alive despite Ned not being able to touch Chuck ever again because if he does…she’ll die.
Without giving too much away, it involves a lot of plastic wrap.
I’m not sure where you’ll be able to watch it, 3.5 readers. At the time of this writing, I wasn’t able to find it on Netflix. I’m sure it must be around somewhere and I suppose if you have the dough and love the show enough you could buy it but if you know where it can be streamed let my 3.5 readers and I know.
STATUS: Shelf-worthy.
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