death stars

pushing daisies has the most amazing premise ever: a boy discovers he can bring the dead back to life by touching them. but because that alone will not make a television series, or a good story, that ability has to come with a drawback. when someone who's supposed to be dead remains alive for more than a minute, somebody else dies. balance, really. the one who dies takes the place of the one who lived. or something more profound than that. also, when he touches the undead again, they die. forever. maybe that's not the most amazing premise you've heard (ever) but i liked the pilot so there.

ned (who i have a crush on, the old one, not the kid) falls in love with his neighbor, chuck, but when ned's mother dies and he revives her, the one who dies after a minute was chuck's father. can't wait for future complications that would result from that incident. so ned goes to sleep, and when his mom kisses him goodnight he loses a parent too, like chuck. they kiss at the funeral and they don't see each other again.

our boy becomes a piemaker. he helps emerson cod, a detective solve cases. it's simple, what he does. he asks dead people who killed them. ned's quite philosophical. he doesn't like calling them dead people. or zombies. when they're alive, they're alive. then chuck's murdered. he touches her cheek and cannot touch her again. he doesn't want head dead. isn't that the saddest thing in the world. the three start solving cases together.

other than, well, everything i'd just written, pushing daisies also looks like a tim burton film. tim burton directs monk. maybe that's better; not saying the show's creators are imitating something, or that it's derivative, no. yo make things simpler, i'll say i love this show. i'm watching another episode after this entry's published.