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Dead Like Me...

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Showtime was trying to get edgier to compete with HBO series and didnt feel that the show was strong enough even though the it did have good ratings. SciFi was said to be interested in bringing it back however at the time half of the actors moved on and David Fuller went on to other projects such as heros.
 
I have never seen this show, although I've always wanted to try it out, but all I ever seem to hear about it is how great it was. I'm going to try to go rent.
 
luminum said:
Also, the lessons Geroge seemed to come up with at the end of each episode for Season two came out of nowhere with no impact, whatsoever. The episode wasn't even themed around whatever she ended up gabbing about.
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I'll agree with that, to a degree.

I was just watching my Season 2 DVD, and at the end of one of the episodes, they ended with George's voiceover and she came to the conclusion that "This is my life. I'm a grim reaper." Really? No shit? That's the lesson to be learned with this episode? As if I hadn't been informed of that 768 times before then, in every episode prior. I understand that they needed to explain the premise of the show from time to time for new viewers, but damn... it got to be overkill for the regular viewers. We know she's dead, we know she's a grim reaper, and we know what the post-its are for. If all else failed, they should've re-tooled the show's opening sequence to explain the premise so that they could've spent less time beating us over the head with it during the actual show... much like they did with "Strangers With Candy" on Comedy Central.

Aside from that, though, I loved Season 2. In Season 1, the episodes seemed rather self-contained and there weren't alot of multi-episode story arcs, but in Season 2, there seemed to be more of an episode-to-episode story flow, like that of a soap opera. Serialized storytelling! And being the soap fan that I am, I loved that. There's nothing better than leaving something open-ended so that I'll have to tune in next week for the resolution! :)

Anyway, I noticed more serialized storytelling with Daisy's search for faith, Rube's search for his daughter, Mason murdering Eric McCormack's character and covering up the crime, the divorce of George's parents, etc.
 
That's true, but it certainly wasn't good storytelling. Rube's was because it was so uncomplicated.

Everyone else was presented with an issue that would get explored a bit, regress, explored, regress, so that you were always starting back at the same point you started at in the previous episode.
 
luminum said:
That's true, but it certainly wasn't good storytelling. Rube's was because it was so uncomplicated.

Everyone else was presented with an issue that would get explored a bit, regress, explored, regress, so that you were always starting back at the same point you started at in the previous episode.
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Well, the show definitely had its faults, but at the end of the day, it was alot different from anything else on TV. That made it worth keeping, IMO. And I loved its slightly morbid tone.
 
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