Dead Like Me

I just discovered this show and found the DVDS for rent at my local Hollywood Video store and I'm in love. This show is so witty yet touching, I love it. I was just wondering if anyone knew if the show was still on the air or still being made, etc. I don't have Showtime so I have no way of knowing. Anyone got any details?

an amazing show......so sad it ended

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no idea, just didn't take I guess....

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no season 3

no

Oh okay, I just watched the end of Season 2 last night. I guess that's a good way to end the show, but still so many unanswered questions. Damn.

I never watched it when it aired on Showtime. I purchased both seasons on DVD and watched and enjoyed the entire series over a few weeks. I'll probably have a look at them again sometime in the summer.

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In response to Rube, I actually had a Contemporary Media project where we had to "write our own episode" of a show we liked. I chose Dead Like Me and did an episode explaining how he died. I wrote it based off what I actually do believe happened. Here is my theory

His family was destitute and for some reason, he had to rob a bank. Thus explaining the old "Wanted" poster in his hometowns post office showing he was wanted by police for robbery. Plus he took the gun which also implies he robbed a bank. I imagine he was maybe killed on the run, I doubt he would kill himself. He took the money and placed it in an envelope. When he goes to the post office to check on the status of the letter he sent with the money in it years and years ago, they said it was never received. He visibly is distrubed over this because I would assume that money was a necessity for his family and the whole reason he had to leave them was to rob a bank for that money. I don't know if times were so drastic that just because they would poor he would sacrifice the life he knew to save his wife and daughter. I am led to believe there was some kind of urgency behind it, possibly an illness which required immediate attention.
Also there is a loophole many fans point out. On the wanted poster, they show a police sketch of Rube. However, reapers are supposed to be given new bodies. Yet the drawing was of his reaper body. It should show his face as he was when he was alive, and I find it impossible that he was sketched with his reaper face because the reaper rube did not rob the bank, the Rube before death did. Follow?
As for the serial killings, I don't quite know the relationship between the episodes message and the deaths of the victims.

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Ah quite true. I wish we did get to see what the others looked like in their bodies after death. Mason and George are the only 2 we actually see looking how they appear to everyone else.

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I never saw it when it was on air, but last summer my mom bought the DVDs.
I watched both seasons in about 3 days' time. What a great show. Why do all the good shows get cancelled

Well written & well acted- obviously hadda go- sigh.

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I had to skip down halfway through the thread so nothing gets spoiled for me here - but I just rented the pilot to see what it would be like and I LOVED it! I'm heading over to Blockbuster as soon as it's open today to see if I can get the rest of the first season at least. That pilot was just beautifully done - and very funny.

Couple of questions about those deleted scenes, though --
1)who was the blonde woman in the car? Was she supposed to be another undead?

2) the bus scene with Alan Rickman - was that a reference to him being in Dogma? I caught a couple of allusions throughout the show to other things -- I figured the "office slut" in the bank being named Brenda was their nod to Six Feet Under. There was a line about wishing people to the cornfield that was clearly a Twilight Zone reference.

The whole thing reminded me of a series of books by Piers Anthony called "The Incarnations of Immortality" where people take on jobs like death, time, fate, nature, war, the devil and god. Great great series.

I can't wait to see the rest of the series!

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