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Showtime Sucks... they have excellent stories but they never last .. although I think that other media like entertainment weekly (who are complete HBO whores) made it the way it was by giving poor reviews to great shows while praising crappy shows...
Dead Like Me was brilliant and was one of my favourite shows on t.v. The cast was great and the stories were fun and deep.
Showtime also had a show called Going to California which was a genius show that was canceled after one season.
I can't wait for the film. A lot of people are upset because Rube won't be in it and that Daisy is being played by another actress, but I'll take what I can get, especially if there's a possibility of a new season.
Here's a teaser trailer for the film, if you're interested.
So I got Dead Like Me: Life After Death, and watched it when I got home. It was good. It was a little weird jumping back in after having not seen the show in a long time.
I wish Laura Harris and Mandy Patinkin were back (their absence is noticeable). And it felt like there was closure with George, which I've been wanting to see for awhile.
At the time it was on it was my favorite show, and it's still way up there on my list.
I plan on going out later today and buying the movie. I was reading somewhere that if it sells well Showtime might consider bringing it back into it's series line-up.
***This post will probably contain spoilers from the film***
I just saw the movie the other day and I was pleasantly surprised. I missed Rube, but he was never a favourite character of mine so it wasn't all that bad. The only really bad thing about the film is that it completely disregarded all the character development that had gone into Daisy. I was sad to see that Laura Harris couldn't reprise her role and Sarah Wynter just didn't feel right. But I can't blame the general suckiness of Daisy on Sarah Wynter 'cause the character seems to have been written as a totally airheaded bimbo - even worse than she was originally in the series. We'd seen Laura Harris expose layer after layer of Daisy during the run of the series, showing that Daisy is in fact a very lonely person in a lot of pain and has a lot of issues with love, intimacy and her identity which she masks with her floozy facade. She was my favourite character and in my opinion the most sympathetic one.
Spoiler from the series:
Didn't anyone else feel like bawling when her last thought was revealed? - "why has no one ever loved me?"
Like I said before, this was all completely disregarded and they made her into my least favourite character of the film
On the plus side, I really loved seeing Reggie all growed up, she's such a beautiful young woman now and it was touching seeing the sisters together now, closer after George's death than they ever were when she lived. I was sad to see that Reggie and George decided it'd be best if they stopped seeing each other, but it does make sense. I'm glad to see that Joy and Reggie seem to have become less estranged and that Joy is no longer ice-bitch from hell, lol. Them leaving town was really the best solution for them.
And ooh! George being the new reaper-in-charge, how big a smile did that put on my face? It's something I was not expecting (though, I really should have at part where she was the only one who showed up for breakfast, haha) and I think no one was more surprised than her.
All in all I think the film did a good job, although it didn't answer many questions (like what's the deal with Crystal and Kiffany? Where does the death info come from? Why can George see gravelings more easily than the others?) but it did give us a taste of how season 3 or even 4 might have turned out. I hope that the series gets picked up again, though I won't hold my breath. It'll be interesting to see how they'd go about it now that George's family is no longer around (which is sad, cause I love Reggie and I loved to hate Joy). Would they skip them alltogether, work them somehow into the storyline or just dismiss the film as being canon?
Showtime dumped it despite the good ratings because they wanted bigger shows to compete with HBO.
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