Pushing Daisies

Take the graphic universe with satured colors of "Big Fish", mix with a bunch of very bright characters that could come a Caro & Jeunet movie, add a camp visual humor à la "Ugly Betty" and finally add a pinch of poetic-metaphysic-surreal elements like in "Dead Like Me" without forgetting some murder-solving mystery material like there was in "Desperate Housewives" season one... Pushing Daisies, the latest ABC dramedy -- drama-comedy -- that debuted this 2007 fall is ready!


In the Barry Sonnenfeld directed pilot, Ned discovers during his childhood that he is gifted with a very special talent: with one touch, he can bring back to life dead things and beings. If he touches them again, though, they die for ever. Another bad consequence is that a minute after bringing back someone to life, someone else in the vicinity has to die... In a nutshell, Ned has a troubled time growing up but finds his place in a pie making restaurant, The Pie Hole. He launches a business with a private investigator, they win the police rewards when solving murders - by asking the deceased how they were killed. One day, Ned's childhood neightbor - and also, incidently, his first kiss - is found dead, he decides to bring her to life for good, accepting the condition to never touch her!


Lee Pace is a very sexy version of French communist politician Olivier Besancenot, he is very convincing in the first role. Kristin Chenoweth, the Broadway sweetheart that everyone loved in Galinda's role in fabulous Wicked, is secretly in love with the main character and she's just irresistible.


Thanks to the success the show met after airing, "Pushing Daisies" was signed for a whole season. I hope the producers will know when's the right time to stop before the show gets old, like too many other shows have done lately...