Pushing Daisies Season 1
Pushing Daisies Season 1 is another one of those critically acclaimed series that end up getting cancelled due to lack of viewers. This series achieved almost cult status similar to others that have had write in campaigns to keep them on the air. The nice thing is that now that everything can be digitally recorded you can buy a whole season at a time and watch your favorite episodes at your leisure. When I was a kid the campy Batman series starring Burt Ward as Robin and Adam West as Batman was my favorite. I tuned in at the same “Bat” time and same “Bat” channel every week for three years until it was cancelled.
Pushing Daisies Season 1 is one of those series that can not be fit into a particular box. Labels like medical drama, soap or crime drama can not begin to describe Pushing Daisies. It manages to fit into all three categories depending on what part of a particular episode you are watching. The series starts with a boy named Ned who has a particular power to resurrect people from the dead. There are a few conditions with this process. The person who has been brought back to life will die permanently if touched by Ned again and if the person brought back to life is alive for more than a minute another person very near by will meet their untimely demise.
These conditions are discovered when Ned resurrects his mother which causes the father of his girlfriend Charlotte to pass away and then Ned kills his mom when she kisses him goodnight. Ned has various jobs while growing up including running a pie shop called the Pie Hole. But at night Ned becomes part of a crime fighting duo. He teams up with Emerson Cod, a private detective. Ned uses his special gift to wake up murder victims to find out who killed them. They use that information to collect reward money.
The partnership is moving along well and is very profitable until one of he victims happens to be an adult Charlotte. Ned can not resist reviving her and yet he can never physically interact with her or she will die again. The entire series is very upbeat and visually colorful. Due to the supernatural flair of Ned’s gift the show can become rather surreal at times. The writers bring everything back into focus with a nice character moment. Pushing Daisies Season 1 tries very hard to be quirky and succeeds but shows a great deal of heart in many episodes as well.
You can view Pushing Daisies Season 1 on DVD and turn off the episode recap if you just want to watch the shows. Rent the Pushing Daisies Season 1 here.