Retailing at $49.99, prospective buyers would do good to note that Best Buy has the Season Two boxset of Dead Like Me at only $29.99. So if you haven’t ever seen or even heard of this show, I encourage you to run out and get your hot little hands on the set.
The show has the acting and production values of a top notch film. I’m still heartbroken that it got shitcanned, but honestly what can you do? Bob Greenblatt, the man responsible for axing the show from Showtime's line-up (not due to poor ratings) and Bryan Fuller, Dead Like Me creator have some of Hollywood/TV's biggest egos. The former wanted to give the network that he recently christened with his presence his own "brand" and a show that might carry the heft of The Sopranos. Fuller, on the other hand, came to rows with MGM (who produces the show) over some plot points and was then released from the show's creative process.
And an amazing series like Dead Like Me simply ended up in the middle (too bad it wasn’t a show like Will & Grace that got axed as a result; now there is a show that needs to be put out to pasture like six years ago.) The end result is one less brilliant show for connoisseurs of fine television to savor.
A little background. Dead Like Me equates the lives and obligations of grim reapers — individuals who have to collect the souls of people who are just about to die — to the mundane, Office Space realities of a corporate, 9-5 job. And this concept never gets old. The center of the show is disaffected - 18-year old college dropout Georgia Lass (portrayed so effectively by Ellen Muth) who gets hit on the head by a toilet seat falling from an orbiting space station and dies on impact. She has that same kind of wit that I found Jaye of Wonderfalls and Veronica of Veronica Mars to have (perhaps that’s why I’m in love with all three of these shows?).
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Article comments
1 - Aaman
Good review - great show, but it kind of lost it's way at the end
2 - dietdoc
rohin, I have caught scattered episodes of the show and find its premise very intriguing. Would it help me better understand it to start from the beginning? Who are the moneky-like ghouls that actually do the soul-snatching?
Cheers,
Ron
3 - rohin
If you watch from season 1, episode 1, the narrator/main character of the show -- Georgia -- explains all the basic things about being a reaper. Sometimes there are exceptions to the rules, but the show carries itself pretty well on the premise...
4 - Clinton
Dead Like Me is an excellent series and I honestly hope Showtime reconsiders bring back this amazing and exciting series. Truely one of a kind show that deserves to live.
5 - Clinton
Dead Like Me is an excellent series and I honestly hope Showtime reconsiders bring back this amazing and exciting series. Truely one of a kind show that deserves to live.
6 - Jen
This show is so good! I CAN NOT believe it got cancelled, really upsetting. If you haven't seen this show you have to buy it, SO worth it!
7 - rip101
just finnished watching all episodes on dvd i rented them and now i'm going out to buy them .now i find out its canceled because if someones egos it was nice watching a show that was interesting and that took me to another place like a good book!!!! shame on you showtime i was about to subscribe
8 - Deneane
I heard that the show was cancelled because Georgia's father "Clancy" played by Greg Kean didn't like that he had to portray a "straight male", Is this true? If so, I think that if he wants to be an "actor" then he must play any role regardless of his "personal preference". Besides if he didn't like playing the role of a"straight male" why did he except it to begin with, Mr. Fuller should have dropped "Clancys" character rather then cancel the show.
Bryan Fuller if you are listening..PLEASE bring back all new episodes of "Dead Like me"!
9 - Kristen
This is without doubt the best show I have ever watched. I have 7 episodes left in Season 2, and it's like a countdown to the death of the series. It's so devestating. The show is so great. It's not too late to bring it back. The show made me feel good, it made me think, it made me remember (or maybe it even introduced me) to what makes good television. No one is paying attention, but please bring back Dead Like Me.