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Why Pushing Daisies Is The Best TV Show You're Not Watching
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11/02/08
As for the musicals numbers being pushed aside in this article. Are you crazy? When you have talented vocal performers like Chenoweth and Greene, you most certainly should take advantage of it on a quirky show like this one. Especially since they love taking part in it. The musical numbers are some of my favorite bits. And prepare yourself, if this show holds strong and doesn't get cancelled - a musical episode is definitely being planned for.
I agree with everyone saying that shows need to be looked at differently. And they think Nielsen boxes sum up who is watching it, but I highly doubt that.
I feel like this show, The Office, 30 Rock, and Mad Men is all the quality tv has to offer these days [and plus a couple SHO/HBO programs]. And it's a shame that hardly anybody is watching any of them.
11/02/08
Theres NO excuse for that.
Its just an irrating style they have settled on.
Its not about detail, because it dosnt matter diddly squat what the second he was killed was. Its just a random number they have picked.
If they had a DIFFERENT obscure or overly precise fact each time, then that would be ok.
But its ALWAYS the time, and it gets boring.
Worse, the narration says "The Facts Where These" about 3 times and eppisode.
It isnt clever, its just lazy.
They have picked a (great) style for the show, but the narration is like a template they are cut and paseting onto each eppisode.
oh, and there should be more musical numbers, certainly.
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OMG. More shows need that. That's actually something real people I know do.
11/02/08
I'm guessing those "real people" don't include women who are doing a duet with the aunt of an undead girl who's their primary competition for netting the man they love? Because I'm pretty sure they said the characters in this show aren't patterned after any "real people".
11/02/08
And it aped its style directly from Tim Burton's Big Fish and several Walgreens commercials. Original my ass.
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Also, hooray for getting it covered on Io9.
11/03/08
He sorta gets a pass on DLM, since he quit after the first season, and there's a rumor of a possibility that it might come back on a different cable network.
11/01/08
It sure is unfortunate. Great show. I know I download the new one every week (sorry can't watch live, don't have cable).
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11/02/08
They know if you watch it on broadcast/cable/satellite TV if you have a Nielsen box, they know if you watch it through their website at all, and they know if you download a permanent copy through a legally contracted partner such as iTunes. They'll also know if you buy it on DVD, but by then it'll be too late. Since none of us probably has a Nielsen box, free online viewing is probably our best bet for making our voices heard.
11/02/08
11/01/08
Before I go for now, the wordplay and rhythm of speech this show's dialogue uses is SUBLIME.
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Your best bet is and always has been to snail mail the sponsors directly, so they know you're aware that they're sponsoring this fine bit of programming. Plus, they sometimes write back and send coupons or free samples!
11/01/08
This season, though, she moves out and wants to start a new life...not as fun. Her Aunts aren't in it as much, the secondary love interest was removed and put into a monastery (monastery episode was great, though)...all in all, it's just been too disjointed.
Take a cue from Scoobie Doo. Discover a mystery, solve the mystery, have fun while doing it...and repeat. Simple.
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You should listen to your mother. In this, she is clearly correct.
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Of course, that song also has a sweet coating with a surprisingly dark center.
11/01/08
And it would just be Anna Friel, looking pretty.
That would be the whole show.
11/01/08
I'd also like to point out this isnt true.
Not that they copyied, but the whole bringing-back-the-dead-for-one minute thing has been done before.
Torchwood, for one. (allthough naturaly infinitely inferiour).
It is near impossible to come up with something totaly original.
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Its more about colour, saturation, and over-the-topness then in actual resolution detail.
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The voiceover is starting to get on my nerves, has been since mid season1.
(theres only *so* many times I can hear "The Facts Where These...." without going mad)
11/02/08