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DVD Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season
Pay cable's "other"show about life and death, Dead Like Me takes a darkly comic look at mortality through the eyes of someone stuck between this life and the afterlife. "Bail bondsmen for the disembodied" is how Rube (Mandy Patinkin), the often exasperated Reaper foreman, explains it to disaffected 18-year-old George (Ellen Muth) after she’s vaporized by a falling toilet seat from the Mir space station and drafted into the ranks of the Reapers. It's now her job to take the souls of the doomed, preferably before their mortal coil is damaged beyond recognition by the devilish machinations of the gremlin-like gravelings.
You wouldn’t mistake George's fellow Reapers for the do-gooders of Touched by an Angel, but they are anything but grim. Charming British shyster Mason (Callum Blue) always has some scam brewing, high-living, fun-loving former flapper Betty (Rebecca Gayheart) treats death as a cabaret ("Reaping Havoc"), and one-time starlet and wannabe actress Daisy (Laura Harris) still nurses her dreams of stardom. Even hard-bitten meter maid Roxy (Jasmine Guy) manages to find a way to let loose.
Dead Like Me puts a light touch on black comedy, but it has a sneaky way of using humor to explore loss, loneliness, and regret, as well as kindness, and courage, and responsibility. George gets a hard lesson when she tries to wriggle out of her assignments like some overgrown kid, only to see the damage of her (in)action in "Reapercussions." And as George's angry, tightly-wound mother (Cynthia Stevenson) and withdrawn little sister Reggie cope with death, she breaks the rules to watch over them: their own pouty, glum guardian angel. There's nothing like your own death to put your life into perspective.
The four-disc set features all 14 episodes of the debut season of Showtime's witty black comedy. The feature-length pilot includes optional commentary by cast members Ellen Muth, Mandy Patinkin, Jasmine Guy, Cynthia Stevenson, and Callum Blue. Other supplements include the nominal documentary featurettes Dead Like Me: Behind-the-scenes and The Music of Dead Like Me (with theme song composer Stewart Copeland), 32 deleted scenes, and a still gallery. --Sean Axmaker
Review(s): DVD Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season
One of the most creative and well done tv series in years
It's not often that Hollywood comes out with really original and poignant tv series.
Dead Like Me was one of the very best and most creative and unique shows to come out in a long time.
I was excited to purchase the First Season and Second Seasons both are excellent.
The acting was top notch and together brought a chemistry that I doubt can ever be reproduced. I say this because I think this show was ahead of it's time and eventually someone is gonna try and reproduce it.
It's too bad that this show was not picked up by the bigger networks, it was so different and not the same old same old that we keep being subjected too. This series brought a tongue in cheek approach to death and managed at the same time to show a poignant view of how precious life is.
A series not for the average sheeple, a thinking man's program.
Toilet Seat Girl Rules!
Dead Like Me
We first saw this series while on vacation. We were so immersed we didn't want to stop watching! It really grabbed both of us; not just the unique story, you really love the characters right away. We did not see much of the first series on vacation-then recently we picked up watching it on the SciFi channel. It only took a few episodes before we decided we may as well own it; we bought both seasons. This is a show I can watch anytime, it's hard to stop-a lot like a really good book.
Bad TV at its Best!
Thank goodness this show was cancelled. This is one terrible show, full of bad language, blasphemy as well as a repetitive storyline. The main character cant get beyond the point that she is dead and episode after episode you have to look at bad acting. Is it a funny show? If only, I didnt even give a grin at the stupid jokes. This is one series you can definitely do without
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