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Summary: Best Series of 2003
Review: I ordered Showtime years ago so I could watch Stargate. And once they sold it to Sci-Fi Channel, I wondered if I should cancel Showtime and save some money. When Dead Like Me came out, I was damn happy I hadn't. If there was anything I would have changed with the first season, it would have been more episodes. Dead Like Me is one of those shows that's well writen, well acted, funny, irreverant, thought provoking, and just a rollicking good time. MGM and Showtime have a another hit on their hands. I hope they keep up the good work and I can't wait for season two.
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Summary: When are they going to release the second season on dvd?
Review: I thought the first season was very compelling and since I don't have showtime, I had to buy the first season on dvd. It was great - one of the best series ever on tv right up there with all the great shows in cable series format. For example: Nikita even though DLM it wasn't all action all the time, in it's own way it was just as good as any other hit cable show. So where's the second season my money is in my hand ready to buy? You too, should want this impressive cable series the second season of this fantastic and highly entertaining 'Dead Like Me'!
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Summary: Rating the show- Not the DVD
Review: I was hooked on this show from the very first episode. Fantastic! Anyone who appreciates dark humor, or even light humor about big issues, will love this show. The great Mandy P. is really flushing out the rather difficult roll of the head Grim Reaper, and Mr. Blue is just yummy. I love the little gravlings! Anyway, this is a great show, and I highly recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: TWO THUMBS UP !!!
Review: I watched the original version with french subtitles on french TV this year and whoaaa !!! this first season rocks !! Great teleplay, great actors and great directing, I can wait for the second season ..... and THE DVD SET !!
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Summary: One of the truly great series of recent years - no kidding!
Review: I would place DEAD LIKE ME on the shortest of short lists of the truly great television shows of the past decade and a half (that date referring to the debut of TWIN PEAKS and a more artistically serious form of television). Most television shows are unambitious affairs, either because of constraints from the networks or lack of creative talent at the top, but DEAD LIKE ME stands head and shoulders above the competition. It is not nearly as well as it deserves, primarily because it was a series that appeared on Showtime, which limited its exposure. The television show begins--we learn later--with a toilet seat from the MIR space station rushing to fulfill its destiny on planet earth, namely to ignite into a ball of fire and strike eighteen-year-old Georgia "George" Lass, who is taking her lunch break on the first day of her temp assignment with the Happy Times Employment Agency. George looks up at the descending ball, inaudibly utters the word "sh#t" and immediately enters the next stage of her existence, if not her life. Much to her astonishment, she finds herself standing a few feet away from her body, able to see the living, but herself unseen by all except for a few Grim Reapers, whose job it is to see her into her afterlife. Usually this involves aiding them to the place where they will spend eternity, but in George's case, she is recruited very much against her will to become a Grim Reaper. The rest of the first season deals with George's deep resistance to accepting her new vocation, as well as coming to terms with her death, the loss of her family and the discovery of what they unexpectedly meant to her, her need to find a living (it turns out being a Reaper is an unpaid position), her yearning for friends and companionship, and her growing awareness of what it means to be a human being. The show succeeds on virtually every level. The scripts are consistently superb, many of them by series creator and STAR TREK: VOYAGER alum Bryan Fuller. The production values are far beyond the normal television series. The special effects (and there are more than one would expect on a show of this kind) are always striking. The photography is simply unmatched in television. I might be inclined to defend the statement that this is the show has the best photography in the history of television. The camerawork is difficult to praise too highly, with innovative camera angles, zooms, wide angle lenses, and especially filters to make this an incredibly beautiful show to look at. It was filmed in Vancouver, but it was supposed to be Seattle, but instead of the rain that one anticipates from the climate, there is constant and brilliant sunshine. Green dominates the screen (the color of growing things?) in every exterior shot. It is exhilarating to view a series that is made this well. The cast is exquisite. Ellen Muth plays George, and I'm not sure they could have gotten anyone more perfect to play the role. She is a perfect blend of sullen, grumpy, vulnerable, and lost, and she manages perfectly to communicate her awakening to life by having died. She is also one of the more interesting actresses to have appeared in sometime, giving the appearance of being average in appearance while in fact being a striking beauty. Her undead supervisor Rube is played by the great Mandy Patinkin, and he turns in his usual exquisite performance. Rebecca Gayheart (who was the original Inara on FIREFLY, but left before the pilot was shot) was superb in the first few episodes as Betty, who was replaced in the team by Laura Harris (of "24") as deceased Hollywood bit player and promiscuous party girl Daisy Adair (who continually regales the group with tales of her sexual conquests of movie stars). Perhaps my favorite moment of the season occurs when the Reapers are forced to catalog and record all the last thoughts of those whose souls they have reaped, and we inadvertently learn Daisy's last thought. She immediately moves from being an unsympathetic character to one that we love more than a little. The hard-as-nails Roxy, who works as a meter maid, is played convincingly by Jasmine Guy (of A DIFFERENT WORLD, and the team is rounded out by Callum Blue as the hapless British thief and druggie Mason. Cynthia Stevenson is great as George's mom. Special mention has to be made of the supporting character who provides perhaps more hysterical moments during the season than any other, Christine Willes, who plays the unforgettable Dolores Herbig "Brown Eyes," George's supervisor at Happy Times, sometimes friend, and host of her own website called "Getting Things Done," on which she is seen whenever she is home "getting things done." After loving the first season of the show, I was tremendously excited about two things: 1) the DVD set coming out and 2) the second season. I was ecstatic when the show was renewed for a second season. Despite its quality, Showtime has not worked at developing original series as has its rival HBO. But last fall they announced the show had been renewed for 2004. The new episodes should begin appearing in May 2004. I heartily urge anyone who loves great TV like BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, SIX FEET UNDER, and FIREFLY to give this remarkable series a shot. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Another one who thinks this is the best show ever!
Review: In the best traditions of Cult television, DLM uses a fantasy storyline to explore relationships and the way people live their lives. In the case of the reapers, the way that they live their undead lives.
George, the disaffected teenager begins to understand and appreciate things in ways that she never did in her life before becoming a reaper. Although she is the anchor-woman to the storyline, the strength of the programme is in the character development of ALL the cast. In just 14 episodes you feel an emotional attachment to the characters that you'd never get by watching a year of your favourite soap. Buffy fans should love this series. It has darker humour than Buffy with some wonderfully adult language and one-liners but has that same mix of humour and deep intensity within the space of a couple of seconds. Slapstick reaping scenes add to the entertainment but it's real strength is in the deeply moving interraction between the characters as they get through their lives- some living, some undead. Superbly written you are hanging on every word. Very rarely do I buy a DVD and even rarer to buy a DVD from across the Atlantic that probably won't play too well in my machine. But this is one that I'm not going to miss.
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Summary: My So-Called After Life
Review: Meet George. Your typical 18 year-old recent High School Graduate that doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, but knows that College isn't part of it. So after her mothers persistance she takes a job as a file clerk, only to die on her first day by having a toliet seat from out-space hit her on the head. When George Wakes up she finds out that fate has chosen her as a Grim-Reaper. She must help people to the afterlife, until her time comes to go on herself. It might take 2 weeks, it might take 200 years to get to whereever she's suppose to go, but shes doing a job that she has to do. Over the course of the first season George meets many very interesting "Grim Reapers" including: Mason, your typical out-for-a-buck reaper, Betty the fashionable reaper, Daisy the once movie "star" that blew everybody from John Wayne to Luke Perry, and Rube the leader of the pack. The Story also follows the effects of George's death on her family, that she thought never liked her only to realize that she was the backbone that held them together. Now collected for the first time is the complete first season of the showtime series. This is a great series, and desearves to be seen by everyone that likes the bizarre, yet comedic that don't have showtime. Or for fans that want to watch this great season again. Highly Recomened.
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Summary: We want subtitles!
Review: Not only the deaf need subtitles. There's a lot of people who live in a no-english speaking country where this series will NEVER show up, that also need them. Sometimes you can get lost trying to follow the speaking (due to talking speed or accent), but if you can read is much easier. The series itself is great. I found it in the internet and I had a lot of laughs with it.
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Summary: Wonderfull show, crap DVD set...
Review: Nothing to say about the show, it rocks !!!!
But i always wonder why those DVD set never contain any Subtitles. May be useless for you, but when you're deaf... It's a shame...
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Summary: best show ever
Review: one of the best shows ever. this will make you laugh. make you wonder. and even make you cry. who didnt cry after the 6th show? best show ever. my favourite line was "it was like m&ms but it was different enough to avoid litigation, of course". this show got me hooked since the firt line. BUY THIS SHOW.IT'S WHY I HAVE SHOWTIME.
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