There are not many shows on TV that I consider "must see TV." I have written about most of them like The Closer and Criminal Minds. My new favorite (since it's debut in the fall) is Pushing Daisies.
Pushing Daisies is a hard show to describe...smart writing, slick acting, comedy, romance and oddness...all blend with technicolor sets to create an indescribable TV experience. Really, I can't describe. I could try but it sounds to weird to work.
Our hero, Ned, discovered at a young age that he could bring things back to life by just touching them. And can return them to dead by touching them again. The hitch is that he has to make them dead again within 2 minutes or something or someone else will die in it's place. None of this is explained.
Ned owns a pie restaurant, The Pie Hole, in which he serves pie and conducts business with his private detective buddy (who knits when he is stressed). Their business is that Ned touches murder victims, finds out who killed them and collects the reward money. Until one fateful day a murder victim is Ned's childhood sweetheart, Chuck, whom he touches and brings back to life. He leaves her that way. They are madly in love but can't touch each other. Chuck was raised by her Aunts (retired synchronized swimming stars) who don't know she was brought back to life.
There are way out plot lines, fast dead pan dialogue and an excellent cast led by Lee Pace and Anna Friel and supported by such veteran actors as Chi McBride, Ellen Greene and Swoozie Kurtz. There is much more the show than what I have described because you just have to see it to believe it.
This program wins my vote for every award shows' "best new television series" and "best comedy series of the year."
This is a visual taste sensation that is not to be missed on Wednesday nights. Bon appetite.
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