Don’t worry; some big comic stories are coming to an end. We won’t just have reviews of last years TV until next year. Pushing Daisies showed its final season this year. I was quite surprised it even got a second season, not because of any low quality in the show; no it was because it was such a strange and quirky piece of TV that I am still amazed it ever got past a board of execs.
This series continued the adventures of Ned, A pie maker who can bring people back from the dead. It contained the usual, episodic quirky murder of the week combined with the ongoing sub-plots such as the Ned/Chuck/Olive love triangle and Emerson’s search for his missing daughter. As a nice addition the finale had a 5 minute sequence roughly establishing how things panned out for all of the characters, while leaving the door open for more possibilities such as the proposed comic.
I’m going to miss this, its high production costs always meant it wasn’t going to survive in today’s cutthroat world of TV. As SFX pointed out in their preview of US Fall TV the wild experimentation of 2 or 3 years ago has past, scheduled next year is a long line of safe options, some promising safe options but safe none the less. Pushing Daisies shows what you can get when networks are willing to give anything a punt; it’s a series that the word Delightful was invented for, a small corner of technocolour joy in the grim dark world of modern TV, a series that could have a character in it called Randy Mann without it becoming annoying.
At the moment though I’ll have to bid a sad farewell to Ned the pie maker, to Charlotte Charles and her synchronised swimmer aunts, to Olive Snook and her random bursts into song and to Emerson Cod and all the other wonderful characters this series created.
DVD boxed sets you say, on my Xmas list.
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