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Has anyone seen any of Bryan Fuller's shows? I'd have to say, with all 3 of his 3 series being on my top 10 list of favourite TV shows, he's my favourite TV show creator (along with Joss Whedon)
The shows he's created are: Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies. Sadly, all of them have been prematurely cancelled. He's also been involved in projects such as Heroes and Star Trek: Voyager. His shows are characterized by quirky and often times dark humour and fantastic settings and situations.
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Dead Like Me is about Georgia Lass, who at age 18 dies on her lunch break on her first day of work after being hit by a part of the MIR space station (a toilet seat). Instead of passing on like most people do post-mortem, she is forced to become a grim-reaper. That basically means that she now has the full-time job of going around and reaping people's souls before they die (usually in a graphic and/or painful manner) but she still has to fend for herself as the average mortal would (which means that she has to find a way of making money, since the reaping gig is not paid, in order to have a place to live in, something to eat and so on). She ends up getting a job at Happy Time Temp Agency (the same place she got a job from while still alive), under the alias Millie. She also has to deal with the fact that even though she can fully interact with the living (her appearance is different from when it was before she died) she can never contact her family.
The show follows Georgia as she deals with her death and how she interacts her fellow reapers (she belongs to a group of reapers that specialises in "external influence"). We also follow her family (mother, father and younger sister) and how her death affects their lives. The show is a dark dramedy and is very well made. It's smart, funny and not afraid to be shocking or using profane language when expected (and the main character being 18, bitter and doubly bitter from being dead... that's often, lol).
Other main characters are:
Rube: George's boss, hands out assignments to the reapers on yellow Post-Its
Mason: British reaper, pretty much fails at life (and death) died when trying to reach the ultimate high by drilling a hole into his skull
Roxy: Sassy no-nonsense reaper who works as a meter-maid.
Betty: Confident and spontaneous, George and her start bonding immediately.
Daisy: Spoiled actress who keeps telling of her sexual escapades with classical film stars. But underneath the exterior she seems to be sad and lonely.
Clancy: George's dad, a professor
Joy: Georges mom, a bit of a control freak and her relationship with George was strained.
Reggie: George's eccentric younger sister who admired her sister and misses her a lot.
Bryan actually left this show early in the first season due to some heavy differences with the production company, one of them being that Bryan wanted to make George's dad gay. Nevertheless, I think the show did great (although, I am disappointed about some of the storylines they forced him to drop). And even though the show was cancelled, a DLM film has been made and will be released straight to DVD sometime in 2009
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Wonderfalls is a lot quirkier and lighter than DLM, while still technically a dramedy, it's not as dark as DLM. The show revolves around Jaye Tyler, a cynic who is the black sheep of her family. Her parents and siblings are all successful in their lives, while Jaye, who has a degree in Philosophy lives in a trailer park and works in a Niagara Falls gift shop. One day objects with animal faces (eg. a wax lion, a brass monkey and a mounted fish) start talking to her, making her do weird and random things which all eventually end with her helping someone in need. Despite things usually endig up well, she is convinced that she's going mad and tries to ignore the voices. The premise is loosely based on Joan of Arc and the premise of the show is similar to the one of "Joan of Arcadia" (but imo, Wonderfalls is better).
Each episode is pretty much stand-alone with Jaye being harrassed by some sort of an animal faced object but there is some continuity going on with character relationships and such.
Other main characters are:
Mahandra McGinty: Jaye's sassy best friend who is worried about her erratic behaviour and apparent sudden need to "do good".
Eric Gotts: New guy in town, was there on his honeymoon with his wife but walked out on her when he caught her giving the bellboy a BJ. Becomes infatuated by Jaye
Aaron Tyler: Jaye's brother, studies Theology and becomes suspicious of Jaye's behaviour and notices her speaking to dead things such as a cow creamer. Becomes obsessed with finding out what's going on.
Sharon Tyler: Jaye's sister, a conservative and closeted lesbian. Her relationship with Jaye is strained.
Darrin Tyler: Jaye's father, a doctor.
Karen Tyler: Jaye's mother, a travel book author.
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Pushing Daises is a show that you might've seen. It's the only one of those that got any proper exposure (even though all of them were critically acclaimed). Despite it's first season being cut short due to the writer's strike, the series managed to garner a lot of interest, but that still didn't manage to save it from cancellation
The premise of the show actually started as an idea of a character on his former show, Dead Like Me. The premise is that Ned, or 'The Piemaker' (he has a pie shop), has the unique ability of making the dead alive again. There is a catch, though, because after turning them back to life, he cannot touch them again without 'killing' them again, permanently. On top of that, if any of the beings he resurrected stays that way for over a minute, something else of 'equal value' has to die. So if he brings back a squirrel for over a minute, perhaps a bird dies, but if he brings back a human for more than a minute, another human dies.
Ned discovered his power when he was a young boy by bringing his mother back to life after she suddenly died from a burst blood vessel in her brain (and thus being responsible for the death of his neighbour's and crush's, Charlotte 'Chuck', dad) and then 'killing' her again when she gave him a good night kiss the night after.
Fastforward into the present where Ned is a grown man who runs a pie shop called the Pie-Hole. He also works with a private investigator, Emerson Cod, solving murders by reviving the victims for in order to ask them who killed them and then 'killing' them again. They then collect the reward for solving the crime.
Things start getting complicated when during one of their cases, Ned revives his childhood crush, Chuck. Unable to re-dead her, he decides to let her live (causing someone else to die) and she starts a new life with Ned. Their relationship grows romantic, but they are unable to touch, because it would kill her.
The show then revolves around them solving mysterious cases and explores the backgrounds and relationships of the main characters. We also follow Chuck's aunts, whom she lived with while alive, and how her death affects them.
Other main characters:
Charlotte 'Chuck': Ned's childhood sweetheart that he revives and decides not to 're-dead'. They are in a relationship but unable to touch.
Emerson: A sarcastic private investigator who loves money, knitting and pop-up books. Ned and he solve murders together with the help of Ned's powers.
Olive: Works in Ned's pieshop and is madly infatuated with him, despite him not being interested with her. She is jealous of Chuck's relationship with Ned, but is confused as to why they never touch.
Lily and Vivian: Chuck's aunts, have locked themselves in their house for years due to various social phobias, the death of their niece did not improve matters. Years ago they were a duo of synchronised swimming artists called the Darling Mermaid Darlings.
This show is characterized by being very quirky, having quick-witted and snappy dialouge, being exteremly colorful and is very story-book and faerytale like. The fact that the show is narrated adds to this effect.
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These shows are all extremely great and my explanations here can't do them justice. I urge you to check them out. I guess starting with Pushing Daisies would be the best place to start, 'cause in my opinion it combines the strenghts of his first 2 shows. If that's not enough, I'd like to add that every show has at least 1 superhot guy in a leading role
Sorry for the large post, but I'm very bored and love these shows to death ^^
So, anyone a fan or interested in checking those shows out?
The shows he's created are: Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies. Sadly, all of them have been prematurely cancelled. He's also been involved in projects such as Heroes and Star Trek: Voyager. His shows are characterized by quirky and often times dark humour and fantastic settings and situations.
More pics and info here
Dead Like Me is about Georgia Lass, who at age 18 dies on her lunch break on her first day of work after being hit by a part of the MIR space station (a toilet seat). Instead of passing on like most people do post-mortem, she is forced to become a grim-reaper. That basically means that she now has the full-time job of going around and reaping people's souls before they die (usually in a graphic and/or painful manner) but she still has to fend for herself as the average mortal would (which means that she has to find a way of making money, since the reaping gig is not paid, in order to have a place to live in, something to eat and so on). She ends up getting a job at Happy Time Temp Agency (the same place she got a job from while still alive), under the alias Millie. She also has to deal with the fact that even though she can fully interact with the living (her appearance is different from when it was before she died) she can never contact her family.
The show follows Georgia as she deals with her death and how she interacts her fellow reapers (she belongs to a group of reapers that specialises in "external influence"). We also follow her family (mother, father and younger sister) and how her death affects their lives. The show is a dark dramedy and is very well made. It's smart, funny and not afraid to be shocking or using profane language when expected (and the main character being 18, bitter and doubly bitter from being dead... that's often, lol).
Other main characters are:
Rube: George's boss, hands out assignments to the reapers on yellow Post-Its
Mason: British reaper, pretty much fails at life (and death) died when trying to reach the ultimate high by drilling a hole into his skull
Roxy: Sassy no-nonsense reaper who works as a meter-maid.
Betty: Confident and spontaneous, George and her start bonding immediately.
Daisy: Spoiled actress who keeps telling of her sexual escapades with classical film stars. But underneath the exterior she seems to be sad and lonely.
Clancy: George's dad, a professor
Joy: Georges mom, a bit of a control freak and her relationship with George was strained.
Reggie: George's eccentric younger sister who admired her sister and misses her a lot.
Bryan actually left this show early in the first season due to some heavy differences with the production company, one of them being that Bryan wanted to make George's dad gay. Nevertheless, I think the show did great (although, I am disappointed about some of the storylines they forced him to drop). And even though the show was cancelled, a DLM film has been made and will be released straight to DVD sometime in 2009
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More pics and info here
Wonderfalls is a lot quirkier and lighter than DLM, while still technically a dramedy, it's not as dark as DLM. The show revolves around Jaye Tyler, a cynic who is the black sheep of her family. Her parents and siblings are all successful in their lives, while Jaye, who has a degree in Philosophy lives in a trailer park and works in a Niagara Falls gift shop. One day objects with animal faces (eg. a wax lion, a brass monkey and a mounted fish) start talking to her, making her do weird and random things which all eventually end with her helping someone in need. Despite things usually endig up well, she is convinced that she's going mad and tries to ignore the voices. The premise is loosely based on Joan of Arc and the premise of the show is similar to the one of "Joan of Arcadia" (but imo, Wonderfalls is better).
Each episode is pretty much stand-alone with Jaye being harrassed by some sort of an animal faced object but there is some continuity going on with character relationships and such.
Other main characters are:
Mahandra McGinty: Jaye's sassy best friend who is worried about her erratic behaviour and apparent sudden need to "do good".
Eric Gotts: New guy in town, was there on his honeymoon with his wife but walked out on her when he caught her giving the bellboy a BJ. Becomes infatuated by Jaye
Aaron Tyler: Jaye's brother, studies Theology and becomes suspicious of Jaye's behaviour and notices her speaking to dead things such as a cow creamer. Becomes obsessed with finding out what's going on.
Sharon Tyler: Jaye's sister, a conservative and closeted lesbian. Her relationship with Jaye is strained.
Darrin Tyler: Jaye's father, a doctor.
Karen Tyler: Jaye's mother, a travel book author.
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More pics and info
Pushing Daises is a show that you might've seen. It's the only one of those that got any proper exposure (even though all of them were critically acclaimed). Despite it's first season being cut short due to the writer's strike, the series managed to garner a lot of interest, but that still didn't manage to save it from cancellation
The premise of the show actually started as an idea of a character on his former show, Dead Like Me. The premise is that Ned, or 'The Piemaker' (he has a pie shop), has the unique ability of making the dead alive again. There is a catch, though, because after turning them back to life, he cannot touch them again without 'killing' them again, permanently. On top of that, if any of the beings he resurrected stays that way for over a minute, something else of 'equal value' has to die. So if he brings back a squirrel for over a minute, perhaps a bird dies, but if he brings back a human for more than a minute, another human dies.
Ned discovered his power when he was a young boy by bringing his mother back to life after she suddenly died from a burst blood vessel in her brain (and thus being responsible for the death of his neighbour's and crush's, Charlotte 'Chuck', dad) and then 'killing' her again when she gave him a good night kiss the night after.
Fastforward into the present where Ned is a grown man who runs a pie shop called the Pie-Hole. He also works with a private investigator, Emerson Cod, solving murders by reviving the victims for in order to ask them who killed them and then 'killing' them again. They then collect the reward for solving the crime.
Things start getting complicated when during one of their cases, Ned revives his childhood crush, Chuck. Unable to re-dead her, he decides to let her live (causing someone else to die) and she starts a new life with Ned. Their relationship grows romantic, but they are unable to touch, because it would kill her.
The show then revolves around them solving mysterious cases and explores the backgrounds and relationships of the main characters. We also follow Chuck's aunts, whom she lived with while alive, and how her death affects them.
Other main characters:
Charlotte 'Chuck': Ned's childhood sweetheart that he revives and decides not to 're-dead'. They are in a relationship but unable to touch.
Emerson: A sarcastic private investigator who loves money, knitting and pop-up books. Ned and he solve murders together with the help of Ned's powers.
Olive: Works in Ned's pieshop and is madly infatuated with him, despite him not being interested with her. She is jealous of Chuck's relationship with Ned, but is confused as to why they never touch.
Lily and Vivian: Chuck's aunts, have locked themselves in their house for years due to various social phobias, the death of their niece did not improve matters. Years ago they were a duo of synchronised swimming artists called the Darling Mermaid Darlings.
This show is characterized by being very quirky, having quick-witted and snappy dialouge, being exteremly colorful and is very story-book and faerytale like. The fact that the show is narrated adds to this effect.
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These shows are all extremely great and my explanations here can't do them justice. I urge you to check them out. I guess starting with Pushing Daisies would be the best place to start, 'cause in my opinion it combines the strenghts of his first 2 shows. If that's not enough, I'd like to add that every show has at least 1 superhot guy in a leading role
Sorry for the large post, but I'm very bored and love these shows to death ^^
So, anyone a fan or interested in checking those shows out?
