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Dead Like Me - The Complete Second Season [DVD]

Ellen Muth (Actor), Mandy Patinkin (Actor), James Marshall (III) (Director), Rated:
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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 ‏ : ‎ DVD, Closed-captioned, Color, 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
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Anders Jakobsson
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best show in the world...again
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2007
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THE PROLOGUE

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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"
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B. Merritt
5.0 out of 5 stars A Show That Will Be Missed
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2005
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There are few television series' that can continually hold peoples interests for very long. But those that can are so spectacular that they burn brightest before being snuffed out. Such is the case with Showtime's DEAD LIKE ME.

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.
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Trenton Bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars The Star that Shone Too Bright and Burned Too Fast
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2010
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As if a comedy about Death didn't have enough tragedy to it, "Dead Like Me" Season Two is saddled with some very sad facts:
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.
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Saucy
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent condition
Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2022
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Been hard to locate this series, it was only released at time the show aired. Excellent series and as thrilled to get a copy so quickly.
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Sabri
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in France on February 19, 2024
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Colis reçu avec quelque jours d’avance et bien emballé !
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W. Traub
5.0 out of 5 stars Grim Reapers
Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2021
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Quirky and interesting look at grim reapers and death. The cast was excellent! I wish the series had gone on more than two seasons.
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P. Kerkhoff
5.0 out of 5 stars ....kommt bald auf Premiere!!!!
Reviewed in Germany on March 24, 2008
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Durch puren Zufall bin ich auf diese Serie gestossen und seitdem ist sie, neben "Die wilden Siebziger" meine Lieblingsserie. Da es ja leider nur die 1. Staffel mit deutscher Synchronisation gibt, habe ich mir die 2. Staffel halt auf englisch hier bei amazon gekauft. Gerade habe ich in meiner neuen Programmzeitschrift gelesen, daß beide Staffeln, komplett deutsch synchronisiert, ab dem 01.04.2008 auf Premiere SciFi ab 18.35 Uhr täglich (ist wirklich kein Aprilscherz) gesendet werden!! Die einzelnen Folgen werden auch noch zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten wiederholt. Es geschehen noch Zeichen und Wunder und endlich wird diese geniale Serie ausgestrahlt.
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Andrew Toms
5.0 out of 5 stars Great series, ended too soon
Reviewed in Canada on July 25, 2019
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Great series, ended too soon
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