Daddy Dearest Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Dim Some, Lose Sum” Written by Davey Holmes Directed by Lawrence Trilling Given the abandonment issues so largely featured in this show, I’m surprised it’s taken this long to get around to the other elephant in the room: Ned’s father. Now that Chuck has discovered that she has a mother she never knew, Ned discovers that his father didn’t just abandon him twenty years ago, he replaced him. A stranger named Dwight Dixon (Stephen Root, King of the Hill) arrives in the Pie Hole and tells Ned his…
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Pushing Daisies: “Frescorts”
Comfort Food Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Frescorts” Story by Lisa Joy Teleplay by Lisa Joy and Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts Directed by Peter Lauer Emerson: “I’ll be dental damned.” Callista: “With a girl like her, you should be.” Who’d have guessed that, of all the characters on Pushing Daisies, it would be the morose and acidic Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) who would have the happiest relationship with his family? “Frescorts” opens with a charming summary of how private investigator Callista Cod (Debra Mooney, Boston Legal) raised her son to be her…