A Favorite Amongst Theatre Folk, PUSHING DAISIES Gets Cancelled- Page 2

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 12:43pm

I was a huge ardent fan of the series when it debut last season. Being one of the many HD aficionados, this show was the eye-candy of life itself. I watched every episode at least 2 times and praised it fervently on this board and to everyone. Due to all this... I awaited it's 2nd season with the same excitement. I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes and couldn't muster anymore interest in it. The repeticious and endless "this is how things got to be in the story" montages lost my interest and I sadly have to say that even though I stopped watching them but still letting my Tivo record them, I finally erased all those "still pending to watch" episodes last night. There is no chance in hell I was ever going to make the effort to watch them.

As with most relationships that eventually sour -- it was fun while it lasted.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 12:51pm

Actually EricMontreal22 its ratings were very strong in the UK considering it was stupidly put on Saturday night when everyone is out.The reruns of season one also played to strong ratings

[Plum]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 1:59pm

Yes, this season got off to a bit of a slow start - separating Olive from the others wasn't a good idea - but the past couple of episodes have been as brilliant and emotionally resonant as anything the show has ever put out. Which of course means it's choppy choppy time; we can't have people actually watching the good stuff more than one time in five.

[californiasnow]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 2:37pm

I agree with a lot of what was said previously. I also don't feel like Kristin was given as much time to shine as last year. It also seemed like Chuck and Ned weren't really moving forward at all. But I'm a little sad now, because I know my Wednesday nights will be a little less whimsical and a lot less colorful.

I'm confused though, as to why ABC is keeping Private Practice on the air, when its ratings are less than amazing, and, I think most would agree, its quality level is somewhat lower than Pushing Daisies.

[californiasnow]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 2:37pm

Double post, sorry. Updated On: 11/21/08 at 02:37 PM

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 2:57pm

Aw.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 5:58pm

What confused me about season 2 was Bryan Fuller said that season 2 would become a complex and even Twin Peaksian soap opera/serial. But I saw zero signs of that...

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 6:21pm

I'm so bummed, creativity never wins in the end, what a shame. I got hooked on this show last year when I came home from college and my (then) girlfriend watched the season finale with me. I have the first season on DVD now and did a review of it for my composition class.
I agree though, the second season hasn't lived up to the first. The sets don't look as colorful and whimsical and there seemed to be more emphasis on the cases Ned, Chuck and Emerson worked on rather than the main characters development which is why I loved the show so much in the first place.
Oh well, atleast I have my DVD and the prospect of the final season coming out soon.

[Kad]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 7:57pm

I feel that the second season was moving away from simply whimsical mysteries. There was the storyline of Emerson's daughter, as well as the introduction of Dwight Dixon and the stories of Ned and Chuck's fathers, and I thought Chuck's "conversation" with Lily was heartbreaking.

It began with a bit of a sophomoric slump, but after this week's episode it seemed as though it was getting back on the right track.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 10:28pm

Whimsy can only get you so far. I'm not too surprised that the show won't run longer than the 24 episodes produced for Season 1 and 2. The fall in ratings with the odd spike doesn't surprise me much either. There's very little to to keep you watching and, if it hadn't been for the cast, I probably would have stopped after three or four episodes into the first season. As it is, I don't know if I'm interested enough to pick up the show when the second season episodes start screening here.

The whimsy and shooting style are nothing we haven't seen before - it's obviously derivative Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain and Bryan Fuller has said as much. However, the storytelling is nowhere near as successful as the stylistic recreation of that film's composition. The show just presents its central idea over and over again and, besides the murder mystery of the week, nothing much happens. There just doesn't seem to be any vision or drive for the over-arching narrative and the everything else in the show seems to move forward at a better pace than what is actually happening to the characters in the moment. It all seems to me like an idea that was never developed thoroughly enough.

And I really think there's only so much one can blame on the strike....