Thanks to the magic of TIVO and my inability to do my homework, I watch a good deal of television. One of my favorite shows is the ABC quirky brightly-dark comedy Pushing Daisies , about a pie maker who is hired by a private eye because of his ability to temporarily bring dead people back to life. This weekend I learned that Daisies was canceled and will cease to exist after what would be the mid-season thirteenth episode airs. This is most disheartening. Pushing Daisies is a rare show; a mix of police procedural and quirky comedy. Think Law & Order meets Six Feet Under meets a Tim Burton movie. I found it to be one of the better shows on television, as did a fair amount of critics.
Pushing Daisies is being canceled perhaps for the worst reason, it is too good (aka no one is watching it). It is too smart and too dark and too quirky for a viewing audience that loves brain-less shows like Gossip Girl and Grey's Anatomy and thinks phony-arc heavy shows like Lost (my disgust with Lost is best served elsewhere) are great.
I believe though that like other brilliant but canceled shows, like Arrested Development and Firefly, Pushing Daisies will become a DVD cult classic, and I for once can I say that I liked it before the hype.
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6 comments:
"Pushing Daisies is being canceled perhaps for the worst reason, it is too good."
Something tells me this is not true. AD wasn't canceled because it was "too good." It was canceled because no one was watching.
Regardless of your opinion on the show, it's important to at least be honest about why it is being canceled. This smokey room fantasy of big shots shooting down shows that are "too good" is too silly.
This reminds me of a certain article on the political philosophies of Battlestar Galactica.
"ANALYSIS OF 'PUSHING DAISIES'" PART II: COMING SOON
Perhaps Patrick and Hunter are both right: It's not being watch (true, and sad, enough) because it's too good. Let's face the music: Americans are, by large, hardly appreciative of intelligent, interesting fare, settling, instead, for the likes of Desperate Housewives, leaving networks with little choice but to cancel the shows that are too good.
Maybe I'm just still in mourning.
there are still 5 episodes left!
Hunter has never seen Six Feet Under and therefore does not have a basis to compare themes or aesthetics.
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