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Disc 1: Dead Like Me: Life After Death
Disc 2: Dead Like Me SSN 1 Disc 1
**PILOT
**Deleted Scenes (30:00)
**Audio Commentary by Cast
**Behind-The-Scenes Featurette
**"The Music of Dead Like Me" Featuring Exec Producer John Masius & Composer Stewart Copeland
**Photo Gallery
Disc 3: Dead Like Me SSN 1 Disc 2
**DEAD GIRL WALKING
**CURIOUS GEORGE
**REPERCUSSIONS
**REAPING HAVOC
**MY ROOM
Disc 4: Dead Like Me SSN 1 Disc 3
**REAPER MADNESS
**A COOK
**SUNDAY MORNINGS
**BUSINESS UNFINISHED
Disc 5: Dead Like Me SSN 1 Disc 4
**THE BICYCLE THEIF
**NIGHTHAWKS
**VACATION
**REST IN PEACE
Disc 6: Dead Like Me SSN 2 Disc 1
**SEND IN THE CLOWN
**THE LEDGER
**GHOST STORY
**THE SHALLOW END
Disc 7: Dead Like Me SSN 2 Disc 2
**HURRY
**IN ESCROW
**RITES OF PASSAGE
**THE ESCAPE ARTIST
Disc 8: Dead Like Me SSN 2 Disc 3
**BE STILL MY HEART
**DEATH DEFYING
**ASHES TO ASHES
**FORGET ME NOT
Disc 9: Dead Like Me SSN 2 Disc 4
**LAST CALL
**ALWAYS
**HAUNTED
**Special Features:
*Deleted Scenes (10:00)
*"Dead Like Me.....Again" Featurette
*"Putting Life Into Death" Featurette
*Photo Gallery
Disc 2: Dead Like Me SSN 1 Disc 1
**PILOT
**Deleted Scenes (30:00)
**Audio Commentary by Cast
**Behind-The-Scenes Featurette
**"The Music of Dead Like Me" Featuring Exec Producer John Masius & Composer Stewart Copeland
**Photo Gallery
Disc 3: Dead Like Me SSN 1 Disc 2
**DEAD GIRL WALKING
**CURIOUS GEORGE
**REPERCUSSIONS
**REAPING HAVOC
**MY ROOM
Disc 4: Dead Like Me SSN 1 Disc 3
**REAPER MADNESS
**A COOK
**SUNDAY MORNINGS
**BUSINESS UNFINISHED
Disc 5: Dead Like Me SSN 1 Disc 4
**THE BICYCLE THEIF
**NIGHTHAWKS
**VACATION
**REST IN PEACE
Disc 6: Dead Like Me SSN 2 Disc 1
**SEND IN THE CLOWN
**THE LEDGER
**GHOST STORY
**THE SHALLOW END
Disc 7: Dead Like Me SSN 2 Disc 2
**HURRY
**IN ESCROW
**RITES OF PASSAGE
**THE ESCAPE ARTIST
Disc 8: Dead Like Me SSN 2 Disc 3
**BE STILL MY HEART
**DEATH DEFYING
**ASHES TO ASHES
**FORGET ME NOT
Disc 9: Dead Like Me SSN 2 Disc 4
**LAST CALL
**ALWAYS
**HAUNTED
**Special Features:
*Deleted Scenes (10:00)
*"Dead Like Me.....Again" Featurette
*"Putting Life Into Death" Featurette
*Photo Gallery
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185 of 194 people found the following review helpful
THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT "DEAD LIKE ME - THE COMPLETE COLLECTION", 9 DISK SET
So my wife and I started watching Dead Like Me on Video On Demand, and were both so caught up in it that we didn't want to wait for the second season to be made available that way... so we ordered the box set.
The box set *includes* "Life After Death", the movie MGM made in 2008.
Let me start with the DVDs of the ShoTime TV series:
Disks 1 through 4 contain the series pilot, and the 14 episodes of season 1.
Disks 5 through 8 contain the 15 episodes of season 2 and the bonus features for the series.
Up through here, that's 5 stars. If I could have give 6, I would.
Disk 9... contains the straight-to-DVD movie.
If you're interested in DLM and reading this review (and the many others), I don't have to tell much about the series - they stand firm as they always did, in high, widescreen quality, uncensored and uncut (and the bonus features contain a bunch of deleted scenes and other fun stuff about the series.
The movie, though. Oh dear lord, the movie.
The movie was made to appeal to an audience that is not in the know about what DLM is about - so the first 15, 20 minutes are an introduction (with cuts from the series), done in comic-book style, with Georgia Lass (Ellen Muth) narrating about what the premise of the story is. After the introductions are done, we're introduced to a flaky storyline about Rube (Mandy Patinkin, direly missed in the movie) having gotten his light, and having been replaced by a Cameron Kane (played by Henry Ian Cusick), who... has... some sort of agenda, plan, whatever, and uses the merry band of reapers to... cause chaos... or something, by having them mess up their reaps.
Hm.
The role of Daisy Adair was performed by Sarah Wynter, who - I'm sure - is a great actress... just not a great Daisy. The series' last episodes had gone through great lengths to turn Daisy into someone with a secret that's eating her, a seemingly callous but very human, confused and hurt woman, who warmed up with every episode, showed fear, love and understanding.
In the movie, however, Daisy is a callous, uninteresting, selfish, vulture-like and petty wanna-be actress, with no depth, no heart and no struggle. One of the bonus features actually tried to explain away the Daisy part, but regardless of the reasons, it was painful to watch, and did not do the part of Daisy Adair any justice - better they had had her "get her light", just like Rube. Callum, Ellen and Jasmin Guy could have carried it off by themselves...
... or maybe they just shouldn't have bothered at all.
The storyline about the relation between George and Reggie (Britt McKillip) was done nicely, and actually allows for some feeling of closure.
My initial plan was to get the series, and rent the movie to see if it was worth buying.
If you buy this box, the movie is included... but if you already have the series, and consider yourself a hardcore DLM fan, do not bother with the movie. It felt like it was thrown together in a hurry (and the fact that *neither* of the writers of the movie had been involved with the series shows, big time), and feels more like an extended "crap, we need a finale" episode than anything else...
Aside from the Reggie/George interaction, the only good things about the movie were:
1. We finally got to see Murray the cat
2. The very, very last scene, after some consideration (had to sink in for a moment).
My wife and I... we'll toss in the series, every now and then, for a DLM marathon session... the movie will remain in its box, though. It's part of the set, but as far as we're concerned... only to keep the outside box from being too wide for the series' DVDs.
And that's why the product gets only 4 stars... I'm not averaging (the movie would make the average be negative, and that's no good) because the series and bonus features are excellent, as expected. The movie just... takes it down a notch. Sad, but true.
So my wife and I started watching Dead Like Me on Video On Demand, and were both so caught up in it that we didn't want to wait for the second season to be made available that way... so we ordered the box set.
The box set *includes* "Life After Death", the movie MGM made in 2008.
Let me start with the DVDs of the ShoTime TV series:
Disks 1 through 4 contain the series pilot, and the 14 episodes of season 1.
Disks 5 through 8 contain the 15 episodes of season 2 and the bonus features for the series.
Up through here, that's 5 stars. If I could have give 6, I would.
Disk 9... contains the straight-to-DVD movie.
If you're interested in DLM and reading this review (and the many others), I don't have to tell much about the series - they stand firm as they always did, in high, widescreen quality, uncensored and uncut (and the bonus features contain a bunch of deleted scenes and other fun stuff about the series.
The movie, though. Oh dear lord, the movie.
The movie was made to appeal to an audience that is not in the know about what DLM is about - so the first 15, 20 minutes are an introduction (with cuts from the series), done in comic-book style, with Georgia Lass (Ellen Muth) narrating about what the premise of the story is. After the introductions are done, we're introduced to a flaky storyline about Rube (Mandy Patinkin, direly missed in the movie) having gotten his light, and having been replaced by a Cameron Kane (played by Henry Ian Cusick), who... has... some sort of agenda, plan, whatever, and uses the merry band of reapers to... cause chaos... or something, by having them mess up their reaps.
Hm.
The role of Daisy Adair was performed by Sarah Wynter, who - I'm sure - is a great actress... just not a great Daisy. The series' last episodes had gone through great lengths to turn Daisy into someone with a secret that's eating her, a seemingly callous but very human, confused and hurt woman, who warmed up with every episode, showed fear, love and understanding.
In the movie, however, Daisy is a callous, uninteresting, selfish, vulture-like and petty wanna-be actress, with no depth, no heart and no struggle. One of the bonus features actually tried to explain away the Daisy part, but regardless of the reasons, it was painful to watch, and did not do the part of Daisy Adair any justice - better they had had her "get her light", just like Rube. Callum, Ellen and Jasmin Guy could have carried it off by themselves...
... or maybe they just shouldn't have bothered at all.
The storyline about the relation between George and Reggie (Britt McKillip) was done nicely, and actually allows for some feeling of closure.
My initial plan was to get the series, and rent the movie to see if it was worth buying.
If you buy this box, the movie is included... but if you already have the series, and consider yourself a hardcore DLM fan, do not bother with the movie. It felt like it was thrown together in a hurry (and the fact that *neither* of the writers of the movie had been involved with the series shows, big time), and feels more like an extended "crap, we need a finale" episode than anything else...
Aside from the Reggie/George interaction, the only good things about the movie were:
1. We finally got to see Murray the cat
2. The very, very last scene, after some consideration (had to sink in for a moment).
My wife and I... we'll toss in the series, every now and then, for a DLM marathon session... the movie will remain in its box, though. It's part of the set, but as far as we're concerned... only to keep the outside box from being too wide for the series' DVDs.
And that's why the product gets only 4 stars... I'm not averaging (the movie would make the average be negative, and that's no good) because the series and bonus features are excellent, as expected. The movie just... takes it down a notch. Sad, but true.
51 of 56 people found the following review helpful
By Micah Cowan
Amazon Verified Purchase
This series is one of my all-time favorites, easily worth five stars.
The brand new movie, Dead Like Me: Life After Death (see my separate review there), however, is not. To say I was disappointed by it would be an understatement. As films go, it is complete junk.
However, buying the set is still very much a worthwhile purchase if, like me, you didn't already own the DVD sets for the TV series's two seasons. The series itself is great fun to watch, beautifully written and acted, with characters that have depth; for this reason, I've given a five-star rating, as this is the best way to obtain this excellent series on DVD. But the movie is a jarring contrast: badly written, with characters whose previous complexities have been thrown out the window, and a mind-numbingly, painfully stupid plot.
The brand new movie, Dead Like Me: Life After Death (see my separate review there), however, is not. To say I was disappointed by it would be an understatement. As films go, it is complete junk.
However, buying the set is still very much a worthwhile purchase if, like me, you didn't already own the DVD sets for the TV series's two seasons. The series itself is great fun to watch, beautifully written and acted, with characters that have depth; for this reason, I've given a five-star rating, as this is the best way to obtain this excellent series on DVD. But the movie is a jarring contrast: badly written, with characters whose previous complexities have been thrown out the window, and a mind-numbingly, painfully stupid plot.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
If you are a fan of the show Dead Like Me then you'll love the complete collection. Not only does the collection include both seasons it also includes the new movie that just came out. If you have not purchased the seasons in the past you need to invest in the complete collection. It's a really good price for this set. You won't want to miss this box set.
If you have already purchased season 1 and season 2 seperately then there is no need to get this set. You would be better off just purchasing the movie because there is nothing special about the box set.
This show is grim reapers at their best.
If you have already purchased season 1 and season 2 seperately then there is no need to get this set. You would be better off just purchasing the movie because there is nothing special about the box set.
This show is grim reapers at their best.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
You can watch it over and over and it's never the same...
I like watching the show for two reasons. one, I love the cast, how they play of each other. Two, you can watch the whole series ten times, and never see it the same way twice. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Francis Earley
5.0 out of 5 stars
My attitude exactly
I wouldn't mind doing this kind of job in the hereafter. Like I said, my attitude matches perfectly. Why me
Published 13 days ago by Denise Darden
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dead Like Me: The Complete Collection
Great show and you can't go wrong with this choice, funny and weird all in one, exciting at times and very thought provoking!
Published 1 month ago by terry
5.0 out of 5 stars
LOVED IT!!!
Saw this show a long time ago when it was on Shotime. Missed a bunch of episodes, then it got cancelled... It is a great show. Well done gore, and funny... loved it!
Published 1 month ago by Cortnee E. Bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hysterical
Highly recommend the series for the non-mainstream sit-com fans who like dark humor. Can't wait to watch the bonus movie.
Published 1 month ago by Eric W. Borden
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dead Like Me
I loved the TV series. It was funny, sobering, and sassy. Probably why it was cancelled. Makes one hope there are reapers out there to keep the gravelings in check.
Published 1 month ago by Pamela Rosen
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
Just as I remembered. The recent death of 2 loved ones in quick succession has brought a new prospective. Still enjoyed
Published 1 month ago by Sharron A. St John
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dead Like Me: The Complete Collection
The show was in my view silly,you have some people who die then are for some reason are sent back reap souls before someone dies so they do not fell any thing when it happens. Read more
Published 2 months ago by john ward
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved this Show
I fell in love with this show over the holidays when there was a "Dead Like Me" marathon. Now I'm hooked. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ruth A. Corcoran
5.0 out of 5 stars
best
great dvds sets. really enjoying the series that was on television for a long ago time - thanks for providing
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