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Episode 8, "Comfort Food"

Synopsis: Chuck turns to Emerson for help dealing with the consequences of her actions, and Ned and Olive compete at a murderous comfort food cook-off.

Original air date: December 3, 2008

Runtime: 43 minutes

ASIN: B001MYZF30

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,881 in Amazon Video On Demand (See Bestsellers in Amazon Video On Demand)

Pushing Daisies Season 2

Synopsis: This forensic fairytale follows Ned (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Lee Pace - The Good Shepherd), a young man with a very special gift. As a boy, Ned found that he could return the dead briefly back to life with just one touch. Now a pie maker, Ned puts his ability to good use, not only touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavor, but working with a private investigator to crack murder cases by raising the dead to name their killers.

Season year: 2009

Network: ABC

ASIN: B001H67HKM

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5.0 out of 5 stars Most stupid cancellation in the history of TV, December 9, 2008

By	Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

PUSHING DAISIES is a treasure. One of the most brilliant, beautiful, exhilirating series in the history of TV.

And ABC cancelled it.

Television 101. If you have a brilliant show, it has the potential of becoming a hit. If you have garbage, you have zilch. Few shows have ever been as critically acclaimed as PUSHING DAISIES. It made the highly exclusive America Film Institute's list of the ten best shows on TV. It got more Emmy nominations than any other show on network television. Every major TV critic in America raved over it. There are numerous examples in the history of TV of similarly critical favorites that managed to build an audience and become hits. But ABC took the cowardly path and cancelled one of the best shows in the history of TV.

As people discover this show either in downloads or on DVD, they will be incredulous that such a work of genius was cancelled. There has never been a show with such brilliant set design and art direction. Each episode of the series is stunning to look at. The lone consolation following its demise is that each episode is so perfect, so exquisite that it is worth 2 or 3 episodes of any other show. What is most astonishing about PUSHING DAISIES cancellation is the overall weakness of the ABC schedule. Perhaps the weakest of the major three networks, it is struggling to pull together a decent schedule. Why does it make sense to cancel your best series? True, the viewership was down from its amazing Season One, but it isn't as if ABC has anything decent to put in its place. With this decision ABC moves solidly into last place in the chase for quality not just among the Big Three, but the Big Four. Indeed, once LOST has finished its run next year, it is a dilemma why anyone would turn to ABC for anything.

Enough about the stupidity of ABC. PUSHING DAISIES is magical. It is lovely beyond imagining and had it been given sufficient opportunity would have told one of the most magical love stories ever. Ned has a gift. Anything dead thing that he touches comes alive again. If untouched within sixty seconds, something roughly equivalent will die in its place. If Ned touches it again, that thing will be dead again, forever. The story revolves around Ned's childhood sweetheart Chuck. After she is murdered, Ned touches her, and unable to touch her again within the requisite sixty seconds, she is alive again, as long as he never touches her again. PUSHING DAISIES largely revolves around this wonderfully poignant love dilemma. Chuck and Ned are in love, yet they can never touch.

What makes PUSHING DAISIES so brilliant apart from this central classic puzzle is . . . well, everything. The dialogue is as brilliant as any show in the history of TV, including BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and THE GILMORE GIRLS. Visually the show has no rival in the history of TV. The overarching narrative, which has only gotten underway as it has been cancelled, is intriguing and leaves you dying to know what happens next. The acting is wonderful, with a deep and extraordinarily gifted cast, with multiple Broadway stars. There is not a weak link in the entire cast and everyone adds tremendously to the show. Anna Friel and Lee Pace are marvelous as Chuck and Ned, while Chi McBride steals nearly every scene he is in as Ned's detective partner Emerson Cod. The great Kristin Chenoweth, one of the great Broadway musical stars of her generation, finally found a non-stage vehicle for her enormous talent as waitress Olive Snook. Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene are extraordinary as The Darling Mermaid Darlings, whom Chuck believes are her two aunts (she is only half right). The show is bolstered by a string of brilliant guest stars, not to mention famed acting teacher Sy Richardson, who has a recurring role as the Coroner. As essential as any of these is the brilliant narration of Jim Dale, perhaps best known for his reading on audiotape of the Harry Potter novels. This is the most brilliant narration on any show ever on television.

Although it looks like ABC is doggedly determined to persist in its idiotic decision to cancel its best series, there is a tiny bit of hope that there will be eventual resolution to the narrative. Bryan Fuller, the creator of the show, has indicated that he hopes to make a movie (either direct-to-DVD or for TV) to wrap up the story. Failing that, he has talked to DC Comics about continuing the series in comic form (a la BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Season 8, which has been so successful on Dark Horse Comics). I assume that the comic would actually appear on the Vertigo label, which is the most prestigious line of adult oriented comics anywhere. But it is an indictment of the television industry that a show this could was not kept alive. Frankly, any goodwill that I had towards ABC has been destroyed. Except for finishing watching LOST, I plan on pretty much skipping any new ABC series. If a network won't stick by its best shows, why should viewers stick with it?

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