Waking the Dead By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Pie-lette” Written by Bryan Fuller Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld Just when I thought there was nothing truly original on television, comes the premiere episode of Pushing Daisies. Visually a cross between Big Fish and Wizard of Oz, it’s the story of an unassuming pie maker named Ned (Lee Pace, Wonderfalls) who possesses the weird ability to revive the dead with his touch. The catch (there’s always a catch) is that if he touches them again, they die forever. The other catch is that if he does…
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Pushing Daisies: “Kerplunk”
Wishful Thinking Copyright © 2009 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies “Kerplunk” Written by Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts Directed by Lawrence Trilling “There has not been this much talent around a body of water since Moses played the Red Sea.” — Chuck This is not so much a review as an obituary. Pushing Daisies is well and truly over. And alas, after months of waiting, and some half-promises from Bryan Fuller that we would have an ending of some kind, the final episode of Pushing Daisies did not follow through. Whether written as a cliffhanger in anticipation of a third season that never…