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2 Oct, 08

And a new season begins! I’ve just finished watching, and it was SO funny. So glad to see our beloved Anna as the sweet Chuck again.

I’m still searching for a better copy to add caps here to you. The both I got it wasn’t in a great quality. For now on, stay with this particular screencapture I did. So gorgeous…

Also I need to start the press library here, there’s a lot of good articles to being added. Check this one:

‘Pushing Daisies’: You should be watching this show
By Gina Carbone

If Willy Wonka, Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd got together and created a show … Sweeney would probably kill Wonka and Seuss by the end of the pilot episode. But if Ned could then touch them and bring them back to life to finish the series, the show would become “Pushing Daisies.”

Although some of the background music sounds a little like “Desperate Housewives” – another ABC show – “Pushing Daisies” stands out as a bright little flower in the current TV lineup. This colorful, quirky, surreal, slightly morbid, very romantic, totally fresh little comedy should be on your must-watch list every Wednesday.

Maybe you missed the first season. Pshaw. This isn’t “Lost.” Just step right up. Season two debuted Wednesday, Oct. 1 and it’s just as perky and sassy as tiny Kristin Chenoweth.

Chenoweth, a Broadway star probably best known from “Wicked,” plays the supporting role of Olive, a waitress at the Pie Hole who is in unrequited love with shop owner Ned.

Ned, played by Lee Pace, is our main guy. Ned develops the supernatural ability to touch dead things and bring them back to life. Unfortunately, if he touches them again, they go back to dead for good. Also unfortunately, if he doesn’t touch them a second time within 60 seconds, something else has to die.

This becomes an issue when Ned is reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte aka “Chuck,” played by Anna Friel. Chuck was murdered on a cruise, but Ned brings her back to life and refuses to let her go. In order to keep her alive, Ned and Chuck go to great, ever-inventive lengths not to touch.

Ned works with private eye Emerson Cod, played by Chi McBride, to solve mysteries. This is infinitely easier when you can revive the person who died to find out how it might’ve happened.

In the season two premiere, “Bzzzzzzzzz!” Ned, Emerson and Chuck investigate the murder of one of Betty’s Bees, which is the alternate universe Burt’s Bees, I suppose. Chuck goes under cover at the cosmetics company to find out how their spokesmodel got stung to death.

Meanwhile, Olive has a “Sound of Music” moment at a nunnery, where Chuck’s aunt Lily sends her to keep her trap shut. Olive is a shotgun loaded with secrets. She knows **spoiler alert** that Lily is not really Chuck’s aunt, but Chuck’s mother, and Chuck is not dead, as one-eyed Lily (Swoosie Kurtz) and Chuck’s other “aunt,” Vivian (Ellen Greene), still believe.

There are so many reasons to love the show, from every single thing Chenoweth does to the unique and captivating production design.

(Plus, you could tune in just to see what outfits Chuck will wear. She’s like Kenley on “Project Runway,” minus the attitude.)

Surely the highlight of “Pushing Daisies” is the bittersweet romance between Ned and Chuck. Friel and Pace have a refreshingly innocent chemistry and know how to work the show’s highly caffeinated dialogue. Their unconsummated love shows how lack of physical contact can still be so intimate, so sigh-worthy, the “sex sells” excuse should blush and run.

No, that excuse should be killed off by Sweeney - and Ned should just let it die. “Pushing Daisies” is redefining adult prime time entertainment and you should get a piece of it while it’s fresh.


| Posted by Luciana
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