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Pushing Daisies - Complete Season 1 [2007]

Pushing Daisies - Complete Season 1 [2007]
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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #685 in DVD
  • Released on: 2008-06-23
  • Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
  • Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
  • Format: PAL
  • Original language: English
  • Subtitled in: English, Dutch
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Running time: 360 minutes

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Ignore the fact that ITV, bizarrely, decided to meddle with its UK transmission of Pushing Daisies by lopping out an entire episode. Instead, consider giving this box set a chance, which brings together every episode--fully in tact!--of one of the most interesting new shows to come out of the States.

The concept behind Pushing Daisies is quite simple, but unsurprisingly, it doesn’t take long before it gets more complicated. It follows Ned, a young man who discovers he can bring the dead back to life for a short period of time. Inevitably, he starts using his gift on humans, solving crime as he goes along. Yet things get far more troubled when he then brings the love of his life back from beyond the grave.

In lesser hands, Pushing Daisies could so easily have gone wrong. But in the mits of Bryan Fuller, the man who previously gave us the terrific Dead Like Me, it really does work. The concept gels exceptionally well--thanks also to a cast led by Lee Pace and Anna Friel--and it’s an unpredictable programme that you simply can’t help but enjoy. On the downside, this maiden series is just nine episodes long, and that’s a pity, but a promised second series--off the back of this first run--is a very welcome prospect. --Jon Foster

DVD Description
Bryan Fuller (the creator of Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me) is back with original and quirky Pushing Daisies. This forensic fairytale follows Ned (Lee Pace, Wonderfalls), a young man with a very special gift. As a boy, Ned discovered that he could return the dead briefly back to life with just one touch. Now a pie maker, Ned puts his ability to good use, not only touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavour, but working with a private investigator to crack murder cases by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers. But the tale gets complicated when Ned brings his childhood sweetheart (Anna Friel, Goal), Chuck, back from the dead -- and keeps her alive. Chuck becomes the third partner in Ned and Emerson's private-investigation enterprise, encouraging them to use Ned's skills for good, not just for profit. Life would be perfect for Ned and Chuck, except for one cruel twist: if he ever touches her again, she'll go back to being dead, this time for good.

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Synopsis
From a young age, Ned demonstrated a remarkable ability for raising the dead with a single touch. The only drawback to this seemingly miraculous gift is that a second touch from him would render them permanently dead. When a private investigator spots Ned's peculiar talent, he enlists him to help solve murder cases by reviving the victims just long enough for them to indentify their killer. An ingenious plan, you might think. But what happens when one of the deceased is your childhood sweetheart and you are faced with the ultimate moral dilemma: let the victim rest in peace after they've given evidence, or keep them alive indefinitely in the name of love?
Series creator Bryan Fuller (DEAD LIKE ME) indulges his taste for the macabre in a comic fantasy that not only challenges our own sense of mortality, but makes us laugh in doing so. With its hyper-real visuals, PUSHING DAISIES bears a striking resemblance to films like BIG FISH, AMELIE, and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, though in this case, the bright, saturated colours and exaggerated camera angles belie the show's dark humour. This release contains every episode from the debut series.

Customer Reviews

Love, love, love it!!!5
When this series first came to ITV, they were really pushing the trailers, and I was determined not to watch it - never really been a fan of Anna Friel. However, accidentally saw the end of one episode, and was hooked! The relationship between Ned and Chuck is wonderful, Olive is fab, and Chuck's aunts are deliciously quirky. I even love the narrator, who I know annoys some. Whoever styled the characters and the sets deserves an award - the colours are wonderful, and the costumes cartoon-like, but they work. Lee Pace as Ned is sweet, and Anna Friel is a revelation - I am so impressed by her. I would definitely recommend this series to anyone with an imagination and a love of love.

Boring1
After a promising first episode I thought the rest of the series was boring. I didn't find it funny even though it's described as a comedy and I found the narration tedious. I didn't think that it was exciting at all and the scope of the story is very narrow. It was the same episode after episode.

I stuck it out and watched the whole series, but I won't be watching the next series. This really doesn't deserve all of the hype and promotion it gets and I don't know why ITV chose this US drama to show primetime on ITV1, there are much more deserving ones out there. It should have just been shown on ITV2.

Imaginative and quirky5
Everything about this works so well. The scenery is a cross between cartoon, theatre and dreamy, and the stories belong in there. The characters are individual and amusing, and the cast are obviously having a good time with the script and their roles, and for the nine episodes of season one there isn't a bad one. The down side to this dvd set is there's no extras, which is a shame. I would like to see the cast talk about it or the people behind the scenes who dream it all up but I haven't knocked a star off because of that. The series is original, fresh and welcoming each time I've sat down to an episode.