No one posts here so trying to start up a little discussion….
I never really heard much about Dead Like Me other than it was good and it was on pay-per-view. Anyhow I downloaded on a whim both Seasons. Bad of me I know…
No spoilers as it happens 15 minutes into the first epside…. its about a girl who’s 18 killed by a Toilet seat that fell from the space station mir in a freak accident, the obvious catalyst for the show. Not everyone becomes a reaper, and its hardly a blessing. Its more or less the way things are. Rather than Georgia, (portrayed by the strangely-attractive-but-by-no-convential-means-beautiful Ellen Muth) moving to the after life, she’s joined by a cast of other misfit reapers. Death is issued on yellow post its, and rain or shine the reapers must reap souls often making for awkward social situations.
Reaping doesn’t pay well, or anything at all so reapers end up stealing, particularly from the dead and getting day jobs. The show is mostly a dry comedy, sarcastic and biting as Georgia tears apart the great life questions in flash backs to her rather mundane childhood. Its too easy to relate to her negativity.
While if it were just punchlines about death, that’d hardly make the show so memorable, so there’s a bit of a grander plot going on as the show focuses in on her little sister whom she never paid much interest to. They slowly hint and tease you, knowing some inevitable events will occur but its only beginning to be realized at the end of season 2 in the final episode that the anticipated event happens and bam… over. You’re like “OH snap, that was fucking cool..” then the let down knowing it ended too soon.
Seriously it has Mandy Patinkin, Motherfuckin’ Inigo Montoya. How the fuck can you cancel Inigo? Mandy Patinkin should make it uncancelable.
It doesn’t have the internet cult following as its not a sci-fi show but I’d put it behind firefly as the best show canceled too soon but it had to be a relatively expensive show to film. She travels around Seattle, shot on tons of locations (In vancouver mostly as its the 3rd biggest film city in North America) involving over-the-top death circumstances warranting stuntmen, special effects and even CG characters.
Seriously, rent it, download it, buy it whatever. Its a pretty good show, probably would have been remembered even better had they just had one more season.
