Wednesday, May 21, 2008
TV Show: Pushing Daisies
Aired at: ETC's 2nd Avenue, Tuesday nights 8:00 p.m.
You don't have to be a three year old to know that Disney popularized the fantasy, magical, princess-prince tandem genre? And you dont have to be an uber analytical person to know that CSI is the pioneer in forensic drama in television history.
Now, imagine, a fantasy based television series that deals with murders, revenge, sex, truth and lies and crime scene investigations.
PLOT
Here's the plot from Wikipedia.com:
Pushing Daisies centers on the life of Ned, a pie maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. There are a couple of conditions to the somewhat unwanted talent, however. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, in a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived thing a second time, it falls dead again - permanently. No amount of his prodding will ever bring it back again.
Inheriting his mother's baking talents, Ned becomes a pie maker who owns a restaurant called "The Pie Hole," which he runs with the help of waitress Olive Snook. The restaurant is failing financially when private investigator Emerson Cod accidentally discovers Ned's gift and offers him a proposal; Ned will bring murder victims back to life, inquire about the circumstances of their untimely death, then touch them once more, all before his set limit of sixty seconds is up. Emerson will then solve the case and they will split the reward money.
The scheme succeeds until they learn that Chuck, whom Ned hasn't seen since childhood, has been murdered on a cruise. When her body is shipped back home, Ned revives her, but can't bear to touch her a second time. Against his better judgment, Ned allows her to live and the larcenous funeral home director falls dead in her place. Ned and Chuck fall in love again and he brings her home to live with him under the unique circumstances of never being able to touch each other. Chuck is extraordinarily grateful upon receiving a second chance at life, and as such she starts to appreciate life as a truly precious resource and Ned, witnessing his vivacious beauty's happiness, begins to break out of his lonely shell.
The series continues as Ned, Chuck, Emerson, and Olive solve murder cases, negotiate relationships, and explore what it means to be fully alive. Their stories combine mystery, magic, dark humor, giddy romanticism, animals, technicolor landscapes, musical numbers, and, of course, pies.
HILARIOUS MUSICAL NUMBERS
I only watched one episode (well, uhmmm, i technically watched two but i wasnt able to grasp the show because i was occupied doing other things :))
And it was dead hilarious when Olive, the waitress sang "Hopelessly Devoted to You" wahahaha....she was swaying while singing back to back with a janitor polishing the floor. There was this interesting shot top view of them dancing with the tune of Hopelessly Devoted to You. Imagine that!
FASHION
The fashion of the ladies was in bold bright colors, much like in the 70s (flower power?) super dressy dress with fabolous hair and makeup.
TECHNICAL FORMAT
Its a narrative with several flashbacks, a very effective mode of telling a story. however because one episode has a number of flashbacks, you can easily be lost with the story, just like what happened to me last night.
A very entertaining program minus the scientific microscopic evidence searching crime solving!
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