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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 86.29.97.1
| | Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 11:04 am: | |
Watched the first episode of Pushing Daisies last night. Hero can bring people back to life and teams up with a private investigator to use his gift to solve murders.
Way more quirky than it sounds with a kind of day-glo Addams Family feel to proceedings. Comes across as a modernday fairy tale. But the very stylings that make it stand out -- whimisical voiceover, an Edward Scissorhands style romance ("Hold me." "I can't.") etc actually grated on me a little. Have to see how it develops and how my tolerance for its tweeness holds up. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| | Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 03:51 pm: | |
One thing I like: ITV are running it in a mainstream slot. Could bode well for Michael Grade's new direction. Fewer Nicki French adaptations and more quality. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.44.101.203
| | Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 09:21 pm: | |
It looked stunning, and felt fresh. Have recorded it. Was it kid friendly? I think mine would love it. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.83
| | Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 10:34 pm: | |
I thought this was quite good - the Addams Family/early Tim Burton feel is down to the director being none other than Barry Sonnenfeld. |
Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 12:14 pm: | |
It made my guts bleed!
Bring back the coliseums already.
We all know that's what we want. People are always saying it. "How long before we have the coliseums on TV?"
And they have that sort of disapproving face on that says "Hurry up with the coliseums already."
That's how I read it. |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.121.214.11
| | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 03:29 pm: | |
I loved the Tim Burton feel to this. I've got the video set for the rest of the series. |
Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 86.29.107.206
| | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 05:58 pm: | |
>>the Addams Family/early Tim Burton feel is down to the director being none other than Barry Sonnenfeld.
I saw Sonnenfeld directed episode 1. Is he doing the rest of the series? |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
Username: Nomis
Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 38.113.181.169
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 04:38 pm: | |
Sonnenfeld was kicked off the show after episode two for spending too much money. His absence isn't really noticeable, though. |
Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
Username: Michael_kelly
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 207.188.67.140
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 06:51 pm: | |
I quite like this show, as well, from the hyper-real colours, to the Burtonesque (for lack a better word) qualities. And pie! |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 02:21 pm: | |
I preferred it to Bryan Fuller's other effort 'Dead Like Me' which everyone liked & I didn't |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 02:23 pm: | |
I stopped watching after ep.2 - there doesn't seem anywhere they can go with this concept. |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 02:46 pm: | |
This is the first time I've quite liked Anna Friel |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
Username: Nomis
Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 38.113.181.169
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 03:51 pm: | |
I disliked "Dead Like Me" as well. Well, dislike is a strong word, but I wasn't a big fan.
"Pushing Daisies" is great, though, and worth a second look . . . but I can understand not liking it if you no longer have a heart. |
Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly)
Username: Michael_kelly
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 207.188.67.254
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 04:47 pm: | |
Yeah, I quite adore Mandy Patinkin, but "Dead Like Me" didn't really move me much. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.147.50.90
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 08:09 pm: | |
I remember Friel in a crap thing called The Tribe a few years back. An unforgettable shot of her 'undercarriage' there was, in it, though.
Pushing Daisies (pushing them what - over? Down?) is great. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.249.146
| | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 12:01 am: | |
Freil is a lovely looking lass, I've always thought. Shite actress, though. :-) |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 04:55 pm: | |
Brookside
>Quiver< |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 90.208.48.91
| | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 06:24 pm: | |
Tony - did you know the viewing figures for The Tribe plummeted once Friel's nude scene was over? |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.147.50.90
| | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 06:46 pm: | |
HA! Mine certainly did - I was 'busy' after her bit.
What a stupid programme that play was. Actually - Poliakov sucks. There's something about his work that leaves me feeling so flat and infuriated. It's lousy but with this veneer that kids you it's ok. |