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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - 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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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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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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Summary: Gothic Fairy Tale For This Generation
Comment: If you like Tim Burton, or even if you don't, this show has a very fairy tale feel to it. The colors are bright and beautiful, the actors are charming, and the plot is very creative. This show is very much a gothic fairy tale. It is both uplifting and tragic at the same time. Check it out, you won't regret it!
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Summary: Pushing Daisies' Macabre Magic
Comment: From ISawLightningFall.com
At first blush, ABC's Pushing Daisies seems a little too precious for its own good. You notice it first in the cinematography, so bursting with color it's almost eye-searing. Then there's the omniscient narrator who sounds as though he's reading from Grimm's Fairy Tales and who almost always refers to characters by their professions. Hence, the show's protagonist, Ned, becomes The Piemaker since he peddles goodie-filled pastries from a restaurant called The Pie Hole. That's not all Ned -- excuse me -- The Piemaker does. He investigates mysterious deaths with a knitting detective named Emerson and dodges the affections of his love-struck employee Olive. Also, he pines after his childhood sweetheart Charlotte (or Chuck, as he prefers to call her), who he can never have because of a deadly secret.
Sound too saccharine? A little self-consciously screwy? It would be, except for that part about Ned's talent. You see, he can raise the dead. Murders are much easier to solve when you talk with the victims afterward. One touch from Ned and they're alive. Another and they're dead again. But if they stay in this mortal coil for more than a minute, someone else must shuffle it off. He's raised and put down a ghastly menagerie. A businessman mauled by a rottweiler. A pilot thrown through a plane's windshield during a crash. A student incinerated in an explosion. But there's one victim he can't bear to touch a second time, a lonely tourist who was strangled on a cruise ship. That victim is Chuck.
Combining mirth and the macabre is tough, but Pushing Daisies pulls it off. It also provides something of an object lesson. Be it dark or light, an overly narrow tonal range hampers a story, thinning its audience and stripping it of conflict. Why care if you immediately know the perky blonde will win the hunk with little fight or end up disemboweled by the creeping horror? Variation makes things interesting. Marrying opposites sometimes makes them compelling.
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