by Christina Gleason on November 20, 2008
I don’t know which upset me more: losing Pushing Daisies or losing Eli Stone. Apparently ABC doesn’t care, because both shows have been canceled.
Pushing Daisies had me hooked from the first episode. Their use of color is absolutely brilliant, and I love the quirky humor, the narration, and how the characters can randomly burst into song. Likewise, the musical numbers were a big draw for me with Eli Stone. The Broadway pull for both of these casts was amazing.
This is a sad, sad day for TV.
I wonder if sending pies to ABC could get us a few more episodes of Pushing Daisies the way sending nuts to CBS got us closure on Jericho.
by Christina Gleason on October 4, 2007
If ABC doesn’t pull the plug on it before LOST starts back up in 2008, Pushing Daisies looks like it should be an excellent lead-in to LOST. Well, if LOST gets its 9:00 pm timeslot back.
I was drawn in by the brilliantly colorful promos for the new show over the summer. The premise seemed pretty neat, as well – a man who can bring dead things back to life by touching them.
Last night was the premiere, and I was happy not to be disappointed. I thought the caveat was interesting – that one touch would bring someone or something back to life, but the second would return them to being dead, not to be brought back again.
Stylistically, the show is amazing. I was trying to liken the visuals to a movie or something, but the comparisons were weak – like someone put Moulin Rouge, Big Fish, and a few Tim Burton movies in a blender with some new secret ingredient. And it works, at least for me.
I look forward to seeing what will be brought to the story each week, and I hope enough other viewers also tune in so that the show stays on the schedule.
