16th Day of (TV) Christmas: Pushing Daisies
Well, it was bound to happen at some point, but we missed a post yesterday. We had a holiday party and a movie to see and we just didn't get to our daily holiday episode. But we can't dwell. Not when there's adorable Bryan Fuller weirdness to see!
I love Pushing Daisies so much and I'm not over it being cancelled. I probably won't ever be over it, really. Let's just be honest with each other.
Okay, so this is a biiiiit of a stretch as a "Christmas" episode but I couldn't pass up the opportunity for us to rewatch an episode of this delightful show. "Corpsicle" is a really dark episode of this already pretty dark show and fair warning- this is going to be a very spoilery post. Let's do this thing.
The episode takes place immediately after Ned has confessed to Chuck that he inadvertently killed her father when they were children, and it's dark times for our favorite piemaker. Which is inconvenient because there's someone killing life insurance agents and the team needs to be on the case.
Listen, friends. Every single element of this show is a damn delight and it would take me fifteen years to tell you all the things I love about the episode. The brilliance of Pushing Daisies is largely that every single element is thought through. It's all deliberate and stylized and fits together to create this strange story-book world. The cast is brilliant. Always. The script is line-by-line genius and infinitely quoteable: "I'm lonely tourist Charlotte Charles. I just crawled out of my grave and here's how!"
This is an interesting holiday episode because it does have a Christmas-y feel, but all of that is in the scenery and music and costumes. The base story is typical Pushing Daisies- dark and a little creepy but also funny and sad. But because of the change in tone for the setting, everything feels a bit more festive. Even if it is mostly dead insurance agents.
One of the best things about "Corpsicle" is Audrey Wasilewski, who plays the "Wish A Wish-er". She's a delightful actress, who's worked on just about everything from animation to commercial to drama to sitcoms. She's always great, but I think this is a super fun turn for her. Fun story- I met Audrey once at my very first job in LA, and she was just as warm and funny and kind as she seems.
This was the last episode of Pushing Daises that they shot before the 2007 writers' strike hit Hollywood and production shut down for the first season. Which is a real shame because the show was doing really well up to that point, and it just never recovered its steam after the break, and then it was (heartlessly) cancelled. Bah Humbug, ABC.
Happy Watching!
CT
I love Pushing Daisies so much and I'm not over it being cancelled. I probably won't ever be over it, really. Let's just be honest with each other.
Okay, so this is a biiiiit of a stretch as a "Christmas" episode but I couldn't pass up the opportunity for us to rewatch an episode of this delightful show. "Corpsicle" is a really dark episode of this already pretty dark show and fair warning- this is going to be a very spoilery post. Let's do this thing.
The episode takes place immediately after Ned has confessed to Chuck that he inadvertently killed her father when they were children, and it's dark times for our favorite piemaker. Which is inconvenient because there's someone killing life insurance agents and the team needs to be on the case.
Listen, friends. Every single element of this show is a damn delight and it would take me fifteen years to tell you all the things I love about the episode. The brilliance of Pushing Daisies is largely that every single element is thought through. It's all deliberate and stylized and fits together to create this strange story-book world. The cast is brilliant. Always. The script is line-by-line genius and infinitely quoteable: "I'm lonely tourist Charlotte Charles. I just crawled out of my grave and here's how!"
This is an interesting holiday episode because it does have a Christmas-y feel, but all of that is in the scenery and music and costumes. The base story is typical Pushing Daisies- dark and a little creepy but also funny and sad. But because of the change in tone for the setting, everything feels a bit more festive. Even if it is mostly dead insurance agents.
One of the best things about "Corpsicle" is Audrey Wasilewski, who plays the "Wish A Wish-er". She's a delightful actress, who's worked on just about everything from animation to commercial to drama to sitcoms. She's always great, but I think this is a super fun turn for her. Fun story- I met Audrey once at my very first job in LA, and she was just as warm and funny and kind as she seems.
This was the last episode of Pushing Daises that they shot before the 2007 writers' strike hit Hollywood and production shut down for the first season. Which is a real shame because the show was doing really well up to that point, and it just never recovered its steam after the break, and then it was (heartlessly) cancelled. Bah Humbug, ABC.
Happy Watching!
CT
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