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Reaper: “Pilot”

The Devil Made Me Do It Reaper Tuesdays, 9/10 CW network “Pilot” Written by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas Directed by Kevin Smith So, it’s been what, four years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer went off the air? Time to revisit the Hellmouth, apparently. The CW kicks off its new season Tuesday nights with Reaper, a new comedy from the teen network, about a slacker who discovers on his 21st birthday that his parents sold his soul to the Devil before he was born, and today the Man comes to collect his due. It turns out that the terrible fate in store for…

Pushing Daisies: “Corpsicle”

Freeze Frames By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Corpsicle” Written by Lisa Joy Directed by Brian Donnelly It’s traditional for a season finale to end with a cliffhanger, and that’s what “Corpsicle” felt like last night. Since the writer’s strike has forced a premature halt to production for Pushing Daisies, this is the last episode we will see until the strike ends. Creator Bryan Fuller has said that this episode was “tweaked” to make it seem more like a season finale, and it certainly felt like one. One startling revelation was capped…