Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]
Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]
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.Pushing Daisies is many things at once: detective show, romantic comedy, whimsical fantasy and above all, a story about a guy who bakes pies and has the ability to bring dead people back to life. Somehow all of these things come together to make one of the most enjoyable, funny and bittersweet shows to come along in a long time. A lot of that magic comes from the near-perfect casting - Lee Pace (The Fall, Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day) as Ned the Piemaker is wonderfully reserved and adorably neurotic; his facial expressions alone provide some of the most moving and hilarious moments in the series. Anna Friel as Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, Chi McBride as Emerson Cod and Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook round out the regulars at the Pie Hole and veteran actresses Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene are great as Chuck’s eccentric aunts whose passions include synchronized swimming, amateur ornithology and rare cheeses. Pushing Daisies exists in a world where people regularly break out into song to express their feelings, where death is never gory and usually played for comic effect, and where every color on screen is richly saturated and vibrant, creating an oddly timeless Edward Scissorhands-like world.
Bryan Fuller, the creator of cult favorites Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls has perfected his style with Pushing Daisies; this series has a broader appeal than the previous shows. Each imaginatively produced episode has such snappy writing paired with ghoulish sensibilities, heart wrenching romance and classic caper-style crime fighting, making every moment completely un-missable. The Blu-ray release of Season One contains all nine original episodes and a behind-the-scenes featurette. –Kira Canny
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars So sad to see the show go…
This was a fabulously written show. It was a strange show concept, but not a criminal or medical show. I loved the unique character interactions, or non-interactions as it was, and the bright, cheery sets.
The Blu-Ray truly brings out the vibrant sets and adds just that extra bit of flavor to the first season of Pushing Daisies. There is a draw back - in the menu, you cannot choose to watch a particular episode, you must go fish.
This is a show that you can watch over and over and still find something new to giggle at.
5 Stars great show with a great picture
this is a really great show,too bad they had to cancel it.the one thing about the show i think that they over looked is that when the dog was brought back to life he was still alive 20 years later,i don’t think that dogs can live that long.
5 Stars One of the best TV shows ever made.
This is one of my favorite shows I’ve ever watched. I am so sad that it got cut down in it’s prime, this show should’ve been on for 8 seasons minimum. The style of this show may have turned some people off. I’ve heard some people refer to this show as “The Dr Sues of today”, I don’t know if that’s really a bad thing. The style of this show actually drew me in more, it’s art design, story telling, direction, and the actors commitment, WOW.
I love this Blu-ray, it looks amazing. It really brings out the brilliant colors of this great series to new levels. Can’t wait for Pushing Daisies: The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray] to come out.
Thank you Bryan Fuller for this beautiful masterpiece.
5 Stars Pushing Daisies was a really great show!
TV programmers are so out of touch with the viewing public and force us to watch what they THINK we want to watch. This was a GREAT show. Innovative. Inventive. The dvd is great.
5 Stars A Great Show
Another wonderful show canceled before it’s prime. I must say I haven’t re-watched the first season yet as I am waiting for the 2nd season blue-ray. Then I will sit down and watch them all together. I am looking forward to the behind-the-scenes pieces to see how the show was put together. Very few shows have ever been this inventive (Dead Like Me comes to mind which was also created by Bryan Fuller and dealt with death). I can only wonder if the writer’s strike had never happened would we still have stories of Ned, Chuck, Olive, and Digby to watch?
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