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DVD Dead Like Me - The Complete Second Season
In the second season of Showtime's Dead Like Me, teen grim reaper George (Ellen Muth) returns just as she left the first--dead. (Technically, undead.) That isn't about to change, but some things will. In season premiere "Send in the Clown," she'll get a promotion at the Happy Time temp agency (a dead ringer for Office Space’s soul-sucking cubicle maze). Meanwhile, Roxy (Jasmine Guy), a tough-talking fellow reaper, will make the move from meter maid to police officer. After all, even reapers have to eat.
There are other changes. George's parents, Joy (Cynthia Stevenson) and Clancy (Greg Kean), finally throw in the towel on their foundering marriage. The other reapers experience their share of good and bad luck. Sweet, if narcissistic Daisy (Laura Harris) finds religion, larceny, and love (in that order), while bad boy Brit Mason (Callum Blue) gives up the bottle only to take it up again and no-nonsense reaper boss Rube (Mandy Patinkin) spends most of the season trying to track down someone from his mortal past.
There were 15 episodes in the second season. Guest stars include Michael Des Barres as a washed-up rocker ("In Escrow"), Barbara Barrie as George's free-spirited grandmother ("Rites of Passage," "The Escape Artist"), and Eric McCormack as a cocky TV producer who falls for Daisy (three episodes, starting with "Death Defying"). Unfortunately, 2004 wouldn't turn out to be creator Bryan Fuller's lucky year. Despite fan devotion, critical praise, and Emmy nominations, both of his distinctively quirky dark comedies, Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me, would not be renewed--but at least the latter made it to the end of the year. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Review(s): DVD Dead Like Me - The Complete Second Season
Hunt down the Showtime Executive that ended this series!
One of the best tv funny shows available today...
Will someone please publish the name of the Showtime executive that cancelled this program?
Dead Like Me
I can't say enough about the actors in this series, what a shame there is only two seasons. We do not get tired of watching these shows.
Is she really Dead?
Here is a show where there is a family, Mom, Dad, little sister and Georgia the older sister, who decides no college and her Mom says GET A JOB??? Yes, she is surprised. Did not want a job! But at 18, on her lunch break she is in the spot where a space station blows up and the toilet hits her in the head. Then she is really dead. But to her surprise, she is now a Reaper. They take the souls out of the Dead, so that when they die, there is no pain. Then they go off into the light. But the Reapers don't get to leave town. They just meet every morning at breakfast, n thir own special waffle house, and their Boss, gives them each their little yellow papers with the names of the near deadly departed. But they also want their own lives. So every day they try to get into all different things that they shouldn't be doing, and Rube, their boss, he tries to keep them in line. As a Sci-fi fanatic, I can tell you, it is too bad there are only 2 seasons. But they are both very worth watching. You will love their shenanigans, and some of the horror, but it is definitely a sci-fi comedy.
Go for these 2 seasons. I would love another season. But I believe there are only 2. I have them both. But it would have been nice to have more. By the way, Rube, their boss is Mandy Patankin.(I hope I spelled that right!) He is absolutely perfect in this Daddy role for his reapers. You will love them all. Ellen Muth is Georgia, called George,. The whole show and cast is great! Enjoy!!
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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.
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