Dead Like Me

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 6:30pm

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?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 6:31pm

cancelled

but I'm jealous you get to enjoy it for the first time!
Updated On: 2/2/06 at 06:31 PM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 6:33pm

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

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:09pm

No way, any idea when it was canceled? I just got done watching Season 2, now i'm about to go back and re-watch Season 1 so that some stuff will make more sense to me.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:10pm

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

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:13pm

Well, I meant like when did it get canceled, after season 2 Or was there another one?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:15pm

no season 3

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:18pm

there wasn't a third season?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:18pm

no

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:22pm

Favorite show of all time. So quirky and just appealed to me so much. PM if you'd like to discuss anything specifically in or about the show. It had such a strong ensemble of actors which you just don't see too often in shows AND they got along without wanting to murder each other. THAT is the combination that helps make that cast so lovable and add that to the writing and it was just remarkable.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:23pm

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.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:30pm

I was upset but I looked on the brightside
1) It went without really knowing it would be cancelled thus it did not knowingly have a finale episode. I preferred it that way cause you can either have a sucky finale to a great show(Seinfeld) or just have one where something totally random happens so it can end big and usually is just unrealistic and takes away integrity from the show and strays from where a typical episode goes
2) I love the ending to the series which was fine and not overdone. It was kind of sad knowing it died without even seeing it coming. Yet it still did a great kind of ending. It kept true to its style and wasnt really upbeat or downbeat. It was just touching knowing it was the end AND the last words were "dead like me" if I remember correctly. I just loved it.
3) It could have been cancelled midseason and that would just be horrible
BUT the show was going places! They were further developing relationships and exploring Rube's past more. But oh well, the show could have continued and gotten sucky. At least it went when it was on top and 29 episodes(right?) of greatness. Got both of the box sets to watch and am on my way to memorizing episodes.

Updated On: 2/2/06 at 07:30 PM

[pab]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 7:37pm

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.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 9:04pm

Yeah C is for Company. It ends with Reggie seeing George and then George says "dead like me." Which I think its a great ending to the show. It gives Reggie some sort of hope, but at the same time I wanted Joy to wake up so bad to see George as well.

If you've seen the show, please help me out here. It seems like there's always some corelation with the bodies they reap the shows overall "theme." But in the last episode of the show, the Halloween episode, there's some guy going around killing ppl with this little nooses. I didn't understand the point of that, nor did they really explain it. Any comments?

Also, what happened to Rube? Did he commit suicide? When they did the flashback, he says g'nite to his daughter, Rose, and then grabs a gun and leaves, but i'm not sure how he dies? Do they ever say?

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 9:16pm

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.

[forni-kate]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 9:44pm

Aha! I see a loophole in YOUR loophole, C is For Company!

Remember on the first or second episode when we learn that the reapers get new bodies? Well both George and Mason see themselves look different when they see themselves on the TV! So that means that we are seeing what ALL of them looked like before they died. Therefore, the sketch would be of Rube as we see him.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 9:58pm

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.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 10:31pm

I saw it a few times and I thought it was brilliant. The young actress was fantistic.

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 10:31pm

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

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 10:34pm

I got introduced to it summer of 2004 by my aunt who has similar tastes with me. She is like "Finally a decent show I can watch, they cancelled all my other favorite ones. I don't normally even bother watching tv anymore cause its all crap and whatever I do like winds up getting canceled" Fast forward a year to when I had to call her and break the news to her. Damn, I doubt shes started a show since. The poor womans cursed

[sabrelady]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 11:26pm

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

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 2:46am

Yes, very well written and acted. It goes from comedy to drama and back flawlessly.

Well, Daisy, I suppose still looks quiet beautiful because everyone comments on it.

I forgot that they dont look how we could see them. I was so confused cause Dalorius (sp?) hired George & Millie, yet didn't know they were the same person, but I didn't realize she looked different. I'm about to start watching the first season.

Anyone know what happened the orange haired actress that was in the first season - Rebecca soemthing - she was in Steel Magnolias? - did she leave the show or what happened or do they explain in an episode?

I wish the family situation would have been resovled. It seems Clancy desperatly wanted to get back together w/ Joy, I wish that did happen though. Though I know its all fictional!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 2/5/06 at 7:29pm

bump

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/5/06 at 7:40pm

Rebecca Gayheart was the reason I saw Steel Magnolias. It would help if she showed up once in a while though. I came touting DLM and was dying to tell her how much I lvoed her character on the brief run she had on the show. Also Urban Legends is one of my favorite cult movies.
She is still a film/tv actress, IMDB her and see what shes up to

[jasonf]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:02am

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!