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Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Are you watching Dead Like Me?
Are you watching Dead Like Me on Showtime? NO!?! Well why not?
It's an amazing show and you should be ashamed for not watching. To recap: A young girl, Georgia, lives a rather boring life. It comes to a very short end when a toilet seat falling from space kills her. Unfortunately, she's not going to heaven or hell. Instead she gets the pleasure of joining the ranks of the reapers!
So there's the basic story. Girl dies and becomes reaper, in-between taking souls of dead or soon to be dead people she learns more about life than she would have ever if she was still alive. Don't think it's some pushover junk show though. It runs the gamut of emotions and you will find yourself laughing one moment and coming to tears the next.
It has a killer cast including the very talented and beautiful Ellen Muth that plays the main role of Georgia "George" Lass. There's the amazingly versatile Mandy Patinkin playing her boss Rube. Callum Blue plays the witty brit Mason. Laura Harris plays a rather promiscuous actress named Daisy. Jasmine Guy fills out the group as the tough meter maid Roxy. Along with the reapers you have Georgia's family. There's the mother, Joy, played by Cynthia Stevenson, the father, Clancy, played by Greg Kean, and the little sister, Reggie, by Britt McKillip.
The show is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. That's in Canada incase you didn't know. It's a very impressive area which providers for a plethora of excellent outdoor scenes and they do take good advantage of it. This is one of the many reasons why it's a great show. Unlike so many shows on TV you don't feel like the show is on some set in a big soundstage. You get to see many scenes out in parks and forests. Even the scenes in town you don't feel boxed in stuck at street level. You get plenty of crazy shots looking up at buildings.
The other great thing I love about the show is the writing is very good. It's dark, funny, with twists of sadness, awkwardness, and compassion tossed in all for good measure. Best of all it never fells like the writers are milking you for an emotion. As you watch you can't help but get caught up in the show and try to connect with the characters. You will laugh and you will cry.
Enough with my ramblings, It's on Fridays at 10PM ET/PT on the Showtime network. Make sure to watch it this week! You'll get a nice double douse of DLM as they're showing a new episode on Saturday at 9PM ET/PT as well. So us lucky fans get two new episodes this weekend. Don't you just love the great people at Showtime!
on 08/13/2003 at 10:22 PM