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Bryan Fuller shows can be a bit mixed for me in that I LOVED Dead Like Me, while Wonderfalls I was more meh on. But after enjoying Hannibal I decided to give Pushing Daises a shot. The visuals were certainly beautiful, but I found that I couldn't really connect to it. Everything seemed a bit too unreal and artificial, especially with the narration. In fact the narrator listing everyone's age down to the minute really got on my nerves!

I wouldn't say that I hated it, and I can certainly see why people would find it charming (hee it was quite jarring to go straight from watching Breaking Bad season 4 to this show), but I wanted to like it more than I actually did I suppose. The premise and how it was all put-together was interesting, and I did like the characters, but at the same time I don't really see myself watching any of the episodes again. Just a bit too whimsical for me I'm afraid. I think I just related more to how miserable and cynical George was on DLM to be honest :P

It has made me want to rewatch Dead Like Me actually! Hmm Pushing Daises had similar themes with Chuck being unable to contact anyone from her previous life, although I understood it less in the case of Pushing Daises as her aunt's would surely have accepted it if they saw Chuck with their own eyes? At least DLM had George attempt to contact her mother, and the show giving us the explanation that she looked completely different now and wouldn't be able to find the right words anyway, but with PD it just felt a bit Idk..mean? to not let the aunt's know that their beloved niece was still around. There were several moments they played as gasp-worthy with the aunt's about to find out, but I was rooting for them to actually see Chuck in those moments, which seemed to go against the grain of what the show wanted you to feel?

Oh and totally random, but I am distraught that they killed off Reggie's character on Hannibal!! The character crossover from DLM is cool, but it's so sad to think of Joy losing both of her daughters. I always really liked Reggie too ("I was told there would be cookies"), her scenes with George were about the one saving grace of the DLM movie.

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aw I never watched Dead Like Me, but I always sort of wanted to! I liked Pushing Daisies, but I feel like I barely remember it, lol. It definitely had a specialized feel to it, not to general tastes.

(I did love Wonderfalls, though)

I miss Dead Like Me so much. I like most of Bryan Fuller's shows. But I don't have a real interest in watching Hannibal. But I'm a fan of Wonderfalls,Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me.

Ugh, you too? Thank. I got through a few episodes of Pushing Daisies and just had no desire to see any of it ever again, lol? It's not that it was bad at all, but SO saccharine jfc. I also didn't care for how much the show kept pushing the ~epic love~ of Chuck/Ned. Just, too sentimental for my taste. DLM FTW, end.

Whereas I *adore* Wonderfalls (my parents live about forty minutes from Niagara Falls, above and beyond my adoration of Caroline Dhavernas in the lead role) and quite like Pushing Daisies, with its very deliberate and charmingly stylized feel. Hannibal shows such a different side of Fuller's work, though I'm really liking it too -- looking forward to rewatching the whole season with my husband, who's been putting it off but claims enthusiasm. Saw Dead Like Me once, didn't get it; might rent it at some point in the future.

Dead Like Me is my all-time favorite show & I loved Pushing Daisies (so of course it got cancelled lol). But I can get why people don't connect with PD, it sort of chokes on its own whimsy. I've never watched Wonderfalls, I should probably check it out, I've always been curious about it. I just cannot with Hannibal (I have this irrational...~thing~...when it comes to the mere idea of cannibalism lol), but I would've liked to have seen Reggie, it seems like forever since I've seen her in anything.

There's an interview with Bryan Fuller on the extras of one of the Pushing Daisies DVD's where he said he initially planned to have Ned the Piemaker be a character on DLM...he'd bring people back to life & mess with the reapers (and I *think* he mentioned that Ned would be a love interest for George, but don't quote me on that), but he never got the chance since the show was cancelled so unexpectedly, so he saved the character for PD. /fun useless factoid lol

They killed Reggie!? Well, that just has me lose patience entirely with Bryan Fuller. Particularly after that sickly-sweet Pushing Daisies crap and his turning to dreck like the Hannibal Lecter franchise.

The DLM movie was awful.

I can see why a person would like any one of these and not the others. Dead Like Me could seem very bleak, Pushing Daisies was definitely too sweetly-presented for most, and Wonderfalls was just very surreal. But I have to confess, I adored all three. Wonderfalls possibly most because I watched it when it first came out and was whining very loudly about it being cancelled at the time. Then I got the DVD and really liked that they managed to give it resolution in 13 episodes.

I remember watching the DLM movie and not enjoying it much with the recast of Daisy and no Rube and the way the characters were so disjointed and separated. The post-its raining down at the end was a cool moment, though.