Comments on: Pushing Daisies – Season 1, Episode 1 – “Pie-lette”

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Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:42:43 +0000

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By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:26:43 +0000

Great review — I’ve been curious to see what you thought, but resisted till I could watch the pilot myself. I am so not tired of the cute yet — I loved the tone — but Wonderfalls was *so* episodic, and I do hope Pushing Daisies does a little better with big arcs. I guess we’ll know more in a couple hours.

By: bytch

bytch — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:42:22 +0000

It’s cute. But I actually thought Psych was cute to start ( boy did that get old fast!). A nice guy as a protagonist, and not all that layered, except for the guilt-thing from killing Chuck’s father. Hmmm….

By: Media Maven

Media Maven — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:39:53 +0000

Amen, bytch. Amen.

By: bytch

bytch — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:11:48 +0000

Having the protagonist in the midst of a cloying relationship, could be a serious problem for a series. And the light-hearted tone would be just a bit affected if he touches her and–boom, stone dead. They better introduce a potential for solving that one soon, or this will be a yawn.

By: Media Maven

Media Maven — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:45:12 +0000

Glad we’re in agreement, watchlist. About Kristen, I know for a fact that she’s going to get more involved in the narrative soon, so at least that’s a plus. But that’s about the only guarantee I have, so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see…

By: watchlist

watchlist — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:11:20 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s sort of created this trap for itself with unending color, the cutesiness, the main character that can’t or won’t touch people whose story (if the show is meant to succeed) is meant to touch the viewers. I had hope that Chi McBride would have more to give than what he did but his performance largely fell flat. I still think, also, that Kristin Chenoweth was completely underused.

I still plan on watching it next week but right now it’s another new show this season that is not exactly overwhelming.

By: Media Maven

Media Maven — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:05:21 +0000

An excellent point, David, but the fact that you immediately think of all those movies is probably a strong argument against turning Pushing Daisies into a film. You’ve seen this type of thing before on the big screen, but never on television.

And who knows? Maybe they’ll find a way to make 13 strong episodes out of this premise? We’ll have to wait til next week and see for ourselves.

Thanks for the comment, as always!