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Tarfumes.com - Pushing Daisies - The Complete First Season
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List Price: $29.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale, Ellen Greene
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883929024322
Format: AC-3
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Running Time: 379
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Editorial Reviews:
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Every not-so-often, along comes a show that's different. Wonderfully different. Pushing Daisies, TV Guide's Matt Roush writes, "restores my faith in TV's ability to amuse, enchant and entertain." It's the story of Ned, a lonely pie maker whose touch can reanimate the dead. Cool, but there's a hitch. If Ned touches the person again, the miracle is reversed. If he doesn't, a bystander goes toes up. What to do? Easy: Team with a private eye, bring murder victims back just long enough to discover whodunit, and collect the rewards. Things go well until Ned's boyhood sweetie is the next dear departed, and he can't resist bringing her back for keeps! Dig the wit, style and quirky romance: If you're not laughing, you may need a visit from Ned.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing!
Comment: I really have enjoyed this show. Once I discovered it, I think I watched the entire season in a few days. I love having the video and being able to share it with friends.
This show is so entertaining. There is an underlying story that moves from episode to episode, but the main action is fresh and inventive. I can't think of any other show on television that is like this one, it is more like a movie in the set, filming, character development, and acting. This show does not disappoint.
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Summary: Pushing Daisies is Wonderful
Comment: I love this show, more than I have ever loved any other show. It's the perfect combination of idealism and dark humor. Pies, bees, love, and dead people. What could be more perfect? Not only that, but the colors (and the clothes) make watching the show as delicious as...eating a 3 Plum Pie. Vivid and lively, from the scenery to the clothes to the plotlines, this show is wonderful--absolutely perfect. Because it's so out of the ordinary, though, I'm afraid that not enough people will watch it (it IS a bit bizarre). But hopefully Pushing Daisies will be the show to change how the world works. Hopefully something beautiful will win out (for once) over the bland colloquial (a.k.a those disgusting things we call "reality" T.V. shows).
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Summary: Just Watch It!
Comment: Pushing Daisies is one of the most unique shows on television. It's about a piemaker named Ned (Lee Pace) who as a boy finds that he can bring anything back to life with one touch. One touch brings life and the 2nd touch makes them die again but for good. However, if someone is brought back for longer than a minute someone has to die in their place.
Ned helps a detechtive (Chi McBribe) by bringing back victims for a minute to find out who killed them. But when his childhood sweetheart Chuck (Anna Friel) is murdered he finds that he can't let her go after he brings her back. Which leads to frustration for both of them through-out the series since they love each other but can't touch or she'll die again .
The show is brilliant and colorful with great visuals and narration that sounds similar to Boris Karloff's in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Despite only having 9 episodes in it's first season it still managed to get a few Golden Globe nominations. It deserved them though since it's one of the funnest, imaginitive and even most romantic shows on television. The cast is perfect as well.
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Summary: Well-Written, Well-Acted MegaFun
Comment: I just want to say that Pushing Daisies is one of only a few comedy series that make me laugh out loud time- after-time in each episode. The cast is phenomenal in the way they pull off the wonderful dialogue and totally stay into their extremely unique characters. Very few programs I have seen ever have this many unexpected twists and turns and great surprises......formulaic it is NOT! Having it on DVD is a must for me because I often want to rewind to get some of the occasionally rhyming, intelligent and clever dialogue. For anyone with a whimsical side to them, each show would be a well-spent hour that will fly by much too quickly....and have you looking forward to the next one.
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Summary: Quirky Fun
Comment: Pushing Daisies is that rare kind of show that never stops surprising. You end up enjoying every single episode, as outlandish as they are, and liking every single character on the show. Its premise, though far-fetched, is enjoyable and fresh.
A man who can revive the dead with the touch of his finger might be in better shape than Ned the Piemaker. He seems sad in his life. Yes, he can bring back dead things to life, but if they remain alive longer than a minute, then something else in the world has to die. He is alone in his life, or at least, he feels that way. That's why he's decided to drown his sorrow in his pie shop, where his quirky waitress, a perfect and adorable Kristin Chenoweth, is secretly in love with him. In all honesty, Chenoweth is the reason to watch this show. I can't seem to get enough of her!
Ned's life takes a sharp turn when, while investigating the death of a young woman, he ends up reviving his childhood crush, Chuck. Once she's back to life, he can't seem to kill her again and, soon enough, love is in the air between the dead girl and the piemaker.
Every episode is written as a small mystery in which Ned and his gang of colorful characters investigate a death. He revives the dead for a minute in order to receive clues that could help them solve the myseteries behind their death. These moments are always funny and fresh.
But what amazes in the show, besides the incredible performances, is the cinematography. The show is incredibly beautiful to look at. The colors are vibrant, the sets original, the costumes always over the top. Its always a pleasure to watch this show.
Sure, being a fresh series, it has its share of small problems. Lee Pace (Ned) often tries too hard to be cute and Chuck is just too good for her own good. And yet, these small flaws take nothing away from this show. I ended up watching the entire first season in three days. I just couldn't stop. I can't wait to see where the second season will now take me.
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