'Pushing Daisies' holds up after 1 hour 32 minutes and 27 seconds
Stop with the numbers already!
I don’t often scream at my TV (at least when hockey’s not on), but last night’s “Pushing Daisies” pushed my buttons. It’s only because this new ABC show feels so special, and somewhat of a learning curve, that its insistence on being precious-cute can feel so painful. How are newcomers supposed to take to this fanciful acquired-taste when it’s so busy being so annoying?
Does it really matter that magical hero Ned (Lee Pace) has been keeping the secret of his reviving-the-dead powers for 19 years 29 weeks and 2 days? Or how many years weeks days anything else has existed? The fairy tale narration by British Harry Potter book-reader Jim Dale is so finely toned that it only makes the scripts’ bizarre obsession with repeated numerical precision even more irritating. Could we, instead, actually get somewhere with the plot?
Last night’s, for instance, was tasty, having our hero piemaker resurrecting a hit-and-run victim who reported he’d actually been killed by a crash test dummy at his automotive-safety gig. The twists and turns were delightful, from jealous pie-place piner Kristin Chenoweth bursting into song (a “Grease” number) to hardboiled detective Chi McBride carrying needles to knit handgun cozies. The colorfully wacky production design and photography sustained from last week's sumptuous pilot. And “Daisies” still nails the romantic yearning of its untouchable central twosome -- Pace and Anna Friel [in ABC photo above], as the childhood crush whom he’s revived and can’t touch again without killing her.
The show just needs to get over its over-adorable “The facts were these” narration babble. Unless, of course, all those enumerated numbers actually mean something. Like the lottery numbers on “Lost”? Then maybe --
Oh, please, no. “Lost” has lost us already. We don’t want “Daisies” to push us away.
Watch the episode (and the pilot) online here.
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Comments (3)
I have said it other places but this Cat in the Hat meets Dick Tracy visual with all it's annoying narrative is cute (maybe the word is sophomoric) but not enduring.
This sugar rush will send the diabetic in the audience to the emergency ward after a prolonged period.
The show is just too cute to maintain an audience for a whole season let alone a renewal.
Ned needs to do us all a favor and touch Chuck in a couple more weeks to put us out of our misery.
I have said it other places but this Cat in the Hat meets Dick Tracy visual with all it's annoying narrative is cute (maybe the word is sophomoric) but not enduring.
This sugar rush will send the diabetic in the audience to the emergency ward after a prolonged period.
The show is just too cute to maintain an audience for a whole season let alone a renewal.
Ned needs to do us all a favor and touch Chuck in a couple more weeks to put us out of our misery.
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