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Genre | Comedy |
Format | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC |
Contributor | Tony Westman, Milan Cheylov, Ellen Muth, Laura Harris, James Marshall (III), David Straiton, Mandy Patinkin, Callum Blue See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 4 |
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Proving that "reapers are anything but grim company" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), this "deliciously dark comedy about the afterlife" (Newsday) returns for "a second season as strong as its first" (Philadelphia Daily News). Thanks to breakout star Ellen Muth's prickly charm, Dead Like Me has "an amusingly odd and touching energy all its own" (Detroit News and Free Press). After more than a year as a grim reaper, George (Muth) has realized that being a teenager in the afterlife is as complex as in real life. There are still unrequited crushes, agonizing dilemmas and the occasional bad attitude. Along with her kooky "co-reapers" Mason, Daisy, Roxy and Rube, George struggles to collect souls while managing her own awkward development into an adult reaper!Disc One"Send in the Clown," "The Ledger," "Ghost Story," "The Shallow End"Disc Two"Hurry," "In Escrow," "Rites of Passage," "The Escape Artist"Disc Three"Be Still My Heart," "Death Defying," "Ashes to Ashes," "Forget Me Not" Disc Four"Last Call," "Always," "Haunted," Bonus Material
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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
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 4 Ounces
- Director : James Marshall (III), Tony Westman, Milan Cheylov, David Straiton
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
- Release date : July 19, 2005
- Actors : Ellen Muth, Mandy Patinkin, Callum Blue, Laura Harris
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
- Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
- ASIN : B00094ARGY
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: #64,937 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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To fully appreciate a review I think it's important to know a little about the reviewer. This particular reviewer is about 25, male and likes when his TV-screen shows him something a little more intelligent. I've never really liked the mainstream shows like "Friends" and "Desperate housewives" even though I (still) watch "Lost" and "Prison break". My favorite shows are "Battlestar Galactica", "Heroes", "Wonderfalls", "The L-word" and off course "Dead like me". I should probably also mention that I'm Swedish so my English might not be the best at times.
This review is for both seasons of the show, since what I will write here also holds for the first season (this is actually a copy of my first season review, lazy me).
THE STORYLINE
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"Dead like me" is centered around a girl named Georgia "George" Lass, an eighteen year old with with doubts about the meaning of her life. She can't communicate with her mother, her father has an affair with one of his students and her little sister might as well be invisible, for all she cares. This could be the plot of a another mainstream teenage drama series, but instead George is hit by space debris and dies.
Instead of passing on or anything like that she finds herself having to work for the undead as a grim reaper, taking peoples souls before they die, saving them the unpleasantness of the actual death and helping them "pass on". Despite their good deed to society reapers don't get paid "through proper channels" and they still have to make a living, either by a day job or petty larceny what ever means they can find. They do get a new appearance though so they won't attract the attention of the people they knew when they were alive.
We get to follow George as she struggle to make a new life for herself, dealing with her new job, her day job, her old family and finding the meaning and purpose in (un)life she never found when she was alive.
THE REVIEW
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I could probably say a million things about this show but I will try to focus on the most important aspects.
First of all, it must be said that "Dead like me" is foremost a humor series, with a dark and a little twisted humor. But the show also deals with very serious questions like life and death, fate and circumstance, friends and family and the meaning and purpose of life. This mix of comedy and drama would normally scare me of, since shows like that have a habit of being over dramatic. Especially when dealing with these kind of "life and death" issues. I'm thinking about shows like Ally Mcbeal which I found quite funny to begin with but that soon tried a little too hard to get it's point across. Dead like me never has this problem, partly because the humor and drama scenes are well separated, and partly because all the deaths in the show are really silly and unlikely. This un-dramatizes it all. It also helps that the makers of the show doesn't try to shove some neatly packed, morally correct answer to all those life and death questions down your throat. In fact they don't try to answer any questions at all, they just seem to ask the questions in a different way. Also, the show never gets religious in any way. It is never assumed that God and Jesus Christ is waiting on the other side. Heaven and hell are mentioned a few times but most of the worlds religions include the concept of a heaven and a hell so that doesn't bother me in any way.
The actors in the show are really great. Normally you see a show with a couple of actors managing to bring their characters to life. In "Dead like me" all characters are marvelously interesting. Sometimes it's even a little bit disturbing that so many of them die in the show because you would like to know more about them. But you can rest assure that the you will be able to at least get to know the small group of reapers that George is part of; Betty, Roxy, Mason, Daisy and their leader Rube. The humorous nature of the show off course means that all the characters are quite stereotypical and strange but in many ways they are also very normal. They have personalities just like any normal person and their sometimes strange behavior is completely understandable given the fact that they have been dead for quite some time.
The dialog and setting (is that the right word) of the whole show is also absolutely spot on. There are many conversations that you really remember long after you've seen the show, and most of them are really funny. There is a particular dialog between George and Mason about frogs that I find very amusing, watch out for that one.
If I'm to complain about anything at all about this show it has to be that they sometimes rely a bit too much on computer animations. I really can't see why they couldn't use real props in some of the scenes and some of the animations are a bit sloppy. But this is definitely not of major concern and it definitely not something that is going to make me lower the five star rating of this show.
So if you like a strange and different show with a lot of humor and brains then you should really see "Dead like me", because this is probably the best show I have ever seen so far in my life. Or as George would probably have but it:
"This show is so good it would probably kill me... again"
in every case , the personal stupidity of the controlling power structure was responcible for the cancled shows.
the biggots , egotists and lords ... harmed jazz , rag time , science fiction , cancled star trek , held back the black base ball player , resisted the jewish theater , forced jack benny to censor his scripts , paved the way for the german national socialism of hitler , cast aside free speach for political gain of Mcartism...
and "dead like me" pays the price of the echo of 80 years of liberal socialism policys of sensorship and top down control of what is seen , no diffrent than other places where goverment controls market place...
if there was a free market... dead like me would have survived ....
that it is dead... is a statement of who is in charge... and who they are .
you resist at great physical peril to your self and your loved ones.
but to fail to resist will mean greater peril to the future .
they will kill you either way , hang togather... or hang alone .
you will know the world is better... when shows as good as dead like me struggle against each other for market share.... rather than struggling against a single chairman of the board who has a personal dislike of its content.
After two short but extremely sweet seasons, DLM was given the axe for unknown reasons.
This second season is just as fantastic as the first, giving us more laughs, more thought-provoking character analysis, and more gut-wrenching and tear-jerking episodes.
If you're not familiar with the premise of the series, it goes something like this:
Eighteen-year-old Georgia ("George") Lass, on her first day of work, is killed by a toilet seat that blasts into Earth's atmosphere from the disintegrating Mir space station. After the explosion, she's recruited into reaperhood by Mandy Patinkin (Rube). And with Rube comes a clutch of other reapers, all with attitudes, personal baggage, and problems of their own. Most notable among them is Mason (played perfectly by Callum Blue), an alcoholic, drug-using reaper who knows no boundaries. In one hilarious but ultimately sad episode during this season, Mason has to reap the father of a young girl during the girl's birthday party. And Mason has to dress up as a clown to get into the party. But Mason is anything but a clown and, in fact, hates them. So when he's asked to make balloon animals for the children, he produces some very phallic looking items, much to the chagrin of the parents at the party. And then, after he successfully reaps the girl's father, he heads outside to rip off his clown nose and start drinking heavily from a whiskey bottle.
We also get to see Georgia lose her virginity and grow up a bit (even though she's still dead). And we get to witness how Gravelings are made (the beastie little creatures that cause all the bad accidents).
But those revelations pale in comparison to what happens to Rube. In one of the most heartbreaking episodes, Rube discovers that his one and only daughter is still alive, and is about to die. If you watch this and it doesn't choke you up, I fear that you're dead!
It is sad to think that there will be no further exploration of these amazing characters' lives. I will certainly miss not learning what happens to George as she grows psychologically and emotionally. I will miss not knowing if Reggie, George's younger sister, blossoms into a normal young lady. I'll miss all of these wonderful people.
1) that it was the last season to air, and
2) that the writing really got so darn good at the end.
If you've missed the first season, it's worth going back and watching, and you might also like to know that sometime later, the cast & crew reunited to make a one-off movie (though sadly this wasn't enough to revive the series).
"Dead Like Me" centers around a young woman named Georgia ("George") Lass. "George" died, only to discover that things were about to get worse. Rather than be carried on into the hereafter, she was chosen to be a "reaper": a not-dead, not-living person who has to be present when people die to help separate their souls from their bodies and guide them into the beyond. It's a dirty job, but...well, it's just a dirty job. Not only does it not draw down a salary, it doesn't leave much of a flexible schedule for someone who still has rent to pay, and a lot of George's un-life give us Office Space-style humor at her day job and morbid mirth at her 24-hour 'eternal night' job. George is part of a crew whose specialty is accidental deaths and her team of Reapers each has their own interesting story to tell. As each episode pushes things forward, it also looks back at itself, be it by using a theme (one episode revolves around "coffee"), showing us a bit of backstory, or giving us some insight into a character's personality. It is well written, it is funny, and sometimes it is hard to take.
Each episode left me eager for the next. And at the end, I was sorry to see it go. If you like grim comedies and don't mind some explicit language (the series was made for Showtime), Dead Like Me Season Two is a short-lived treat.
I don't know all the political ins-and-outs of current television production but I'm pretty much blaming Showtime. This was an absolutely brilliant and immensely crative project, both from its conception through its execution. I've never been quite so 'hooked' on a TV series and I have a past in cable television production and distribution. My guess is that this show just wasn't promoted and probably never should have been done in such a limited venue. Too bad it wasn't on TNT or USA, although it does seem to be a fairly expensive production so maybe it takes a subscription service to afford it. Anyway, it is a crime that it still isn't on.
I don't have the time for long reviews although I sometimes find them very useful and I almost never stop to write one myself but had to this time. This last holiday most of our friends found 'Dead Like Me, Season One' in their stockings (there are a few that you're just not sure will get it), and now I'm back buying 2nd seasons for ALL of those who received season one as they have responded with such enthusiasm.
Showtime, you blew it!
Story line is 18 year old girl gets hit by a space-station toilet seat and becomes a member of a team of people who've died but are not allowed to "go on" until they've helped an unspecified number of other people who've just died "due to an unexpected accident" (this is their teams' "division") to "pass on" to the next step in existence. In the process, this young girl (who never appreciated anything in life while alive) learns to cherish everything mentioned above. Her coworkers each have something to learn from this process as well, and pass on when they've learned it. Great show that keeps everyone interested and also teaches great life lessons.
Also, KUDOS to Johnz Books, who sent the DVD set with SCADS of protective covering in the package - the DVD set was clean and neat and worked beautifully. I've watched every disc and now intend to watch the entire collection through with my grandson next time I see him. Dead Like Me - The Complete Second Season
As in the first season, this dry, witty dark comedy avoids all the lifeless (no pun intended) cliches of the typical brainless sitcom that so many people enjoy on network TV. It always entertains, always has a sublime message that is never done obtusely, and evokes a span of emotions from sadness to happiness that is done so delicately it never seems manipulative. Just a great show.
Season two varies from the first in a few ways, at least as I see it. The humor is a little less dry, the dialogue is less vulgar (thankfully), and some of the characters have changed somewhat. Georgia becomes much more confident and much less the whiney, insecure, depressed girl from the first season. Not sure if this is good or bad, because season one Georgia was terrific. Daisy Adair is vastly improved; the overdone references to sex are lessened, and she becomes a sweet, sensitive, vulnerable, caring woman that is just as lost as the living, and trying to find herself. She is much more believable than the first season's, and much more likeable as well. Rube is still Rube, but is more humanized by his storyline with his daughter. This storyline is done in an interesting and mysterious way, with clues given along the way until it finally resolves itself.
Despite the name, and ostensibly being a harsh show, this is a really sweet show. This is particularly so for the second season. The final scene of the final episode, with Georgia smiling at her adoring former sister is in some ways a microcosm of the show - incredibly sweet, sad, delicate, poignant and beautifully mysterious and reassuring (to borrow a phrase from the first season).
This is the easiest recommendation I could make for anything Amazon sells. If you are thinking about it, get this DVD. You would have to be brain, ummmm, dead, not to like it.
I typically go through a television series all at once, not on a weekly basis. Doing this places me in that world and while I am watching the series many of my thoughts are on the series. Sorta like when I am writing a story. I like seeing a charater arc over a couple weeks instead of a couple years. Curiously, I loved this world, although I really did not like many of the characters.
However, the show has so many plot, logic and character holes, far too many times I was watching the show and saying "oh come on . . . ." It was a frustrating viewing experience which makes it understandable why the series never lasted beyond its second season. Still the Dead like Me world was fascinating. Reapers, death divisions, post-it notes, the other side - just a lot of good otherworldly stuff.
The show sorta falls on its face by almost centering on the protagonist's former life family. Perhaps if it just centered on the little sister that would have been okay, but every time they went to the former mother and father I got pulled out of the reaper world into the drama world of a million other TV shows.
Still, I had to keep watching, regardless of its flaws.
BTW, contrary to many viewers, I felt the DVD movie sequel to the second season was pretty good and warpped up the series nicely . . . with a slight chance (not gonna happen) for a renewal.
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!!