| | |  | Comedy | Home » » » Pushing Daisies - The Complete First Season | | | | | | | Description: | | 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. | | | Features: | |
• 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.
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale, Ellen Greene | | Format:
| AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 3 | | Studio:
| Warner Home Video | | Run Time:
| 379 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| September 16, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 151 reviews |
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Awesome!Jan 31, 2010
This is an amazing product! I loved watching them and wishing that it was still on the air!
Way to go Kristin Chenoweth for the Emmy win from Pushing Daisies!
Awesome show!
Miss it terribly!
A MUST BUY for every Pushing Daisies fan!
Amazing serviceJan 30, 2010
amazon was very helpful when the first package was lost and was able to send another no problem.
Beautiful Weirdness with a thouch of MelancholyDec 30, 2009
When the show premeired, I immediately loved it. I think it is the weirdest show on network tv to ever be renewed for a second season.
As a child, Ned discovers that he can bring the dead back to life with a touch, but that a second touch would take life away. If the person stays alive past a minute, something else must die for them to continue living. Ned is blackmailed into a partnership with a private detective who figures out his secret. Ned wakes the dead and the PI to asks who killed the victim and then Ned touches them again. Emerson the PI proves who did it and they split the reward. Or that's the plan until Ned touches his childhood friend, Charlotte aka Chuck, who was choked and thrown from a cruise ship. He can't bring himself to make her dead again.
The show is quirky and strange with a touch of melancholy. Ned and Chuck are always thankful for the extra time they get, but there is always a sad undercurrent for what they can't have.
The dialog is fast and witty. The sets are bright and imaginative.
perfectOct 20, 2009
The dvd's came within an excellent amount of time, and were in a very good condition
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 A delight, both visually and intellectuallyOct 02, 2009
I have not regularly watched a mainstream TV series in many years. I've seen an episode or two of Friends, which I found tedious and glib, and Seinfeld, which never really grabbed me. I enjoyed the brief-lived Andy Richter series, but that is probably the last one I saw with regularity. I had never heard of Pushing Daisies before my daughter gave it to me as a gift, and I was not expecting much when I looked at the packaging. But I (and my wife) have been repeatedly surprised and pleased. Season 1 offers 9 episodes of clever writing and gorgeous photography, and mostly lovely acting. I am grateful we got the HDTV; the colors just explode out of the screen. And with the multiple cameras and extensive birds-eye shots it is, as someone else here says, like watching 40 minute feature films.
With 140+ sterling reviews already published, there's not much I need to add. I would say, though, that with the above mentioned Friends and Seinfeld, the acting was always acting. I could never lose sight of the fact that these were highly paid people mouthing (or mugging) lines written for them. In Pushing Daisies though, the acting is so smooth and so pleasant, that even though the plots are outlandish and the magic very magical, the skillful performances of nearly everyone make it a joy to watch. Special kudos to Kristin Chenoweth, who takes a role that was probably conceived of as a one-joke cardboard stiff and makes it alive and caring and charming. A totally engaging actress creating a multi-dimension character in a nearly totally engaging show.
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