Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season
by James Marshall (III), Tony Westman, Milan Cheylov, David Straiton
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Director: David Straiton, James Marshall (III), Milan Cheylov, Tony WestmanDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Published)
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 627 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: The Feeling of Finding a Truly Great Show
Summary: 5 Stars
There is no feeling like finding a truly great show. I'm oddly envious of those who have yet to experience great shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, and Six Feet Under because such greatness awaits them. In buying the first season of "Dead Like Me," I could have guessed it would be one of those wonderful shows, because I'd seen creator Bryan Fuller's work on one of my favorite shows, Wonderfalls. However, I couldn't have predicted how great the first episode would be. I swear on all television holy, the pilot of "Dead Like Me" is the single best pilot of any show I've ever seen. It's hilarious, perfectly scripted, wonderfully acted, and is one of the most heartbreaking and gut busting hours of television there is.
While the pilot really stand out from the rest of the series as the best episode, the rest of this collection ranges from good to great. I was a bit worried, because creator Bryan Fuller (the reason I bought this in the first place) left after the fifth episode, due to creative differences with MGM. Executive Producer John Masius takes on show-runner duties and does a very competent job in keeping the show consistent. He effortlessly maintained the quirky style that Fuller set up for them, probably due mostly to how nicely Fuller set it up in the first place. But I've gone on and on about the creative team for long enough. Let's get down to some Muth.
Ellen Muth, who plays the lead character Georgia Lass, is simply brilliant. She has such a--ironically enough--life to her, giving such a fantastic and layered performance. I'd go as far as to say she's the best thing this side of Kristen Bell. The rest of the cast, particularly Mandy Patinkin as Rube and Laura Harris as Daisy Adair, give great performances as well.
Each episode will make you laugh, and almost as many will make you cry. The ride isn't always perfectly smooth--"Nighthawks" would have been great if the meat of it had been fleshed out instead of loading it with flashback clips--but it's such an enjoyable show that you're more likely to forget its flaws than dwell on them. Long live the Reapers!
9/10
DVD Review: Hilarious and dark comedy show about the dead and undead
Summary: 5 Stars
dead Like Me is a great entertaining show with a sort of sick and twisted sense of humor. It's like no other show I've ever seen and I find myslef wishing there were many more seasons of this show on dvd. DVD Review: Lots of fun
Summary: 4 Stars
If you are expecting a deep, serious, moving drama about mortality you may be disappointed with DLM. Do not think that this can be substituted for Six Feet Under because it is nowhere close. Still, it is a pretty intelligent dark comedy with a touch of surrealism. DVD Review: A+++++
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought Season 1 and 2. Great show, wish it hadn't been cancelled. Also enjoyed "Wonderfalls".DVD Review: Dead Like You. Yes, You.
Summary: 3 Stars
Spoilers Galore!! I loved Wonderfalls so I bought both seasons of Dead Like Me. I finished season one and just started two. I like the show but I think they made it up as they went along and there's little internal logic. Other things simply drive me nuts.
The acting is great, especially Ellen Muth, Christine Willies and Cynthia Stevenson, whose scenes I fast-forward through because it's like watching Todd Solondz's Happiness, the most unrelentingly depressing movie I've ever seen. The family drama plot-line is another show in itself and I don't know where it belongs in a dramedy about personal growth and self-realization. Along those lines, a number of episodes end with well-scripted voice-overs describing lessons learned and happiness achieved, yet the following episode sees George just as depressed and listless. So, like in sitcoms, nobody ever learns and nothing really changes.
The reaper's powers and responsibilities are vague, inconsistent and unbelievable even within the confines of science fiction. At the end of the pilot episode George sits in her sister's closet but is not seen by her mother, so she can become invisible, right? Wrong! Reapers are supposed to guide the dead into the light, but they often leave immediately and do nothing. They're only given a name, time and location for reaping, and they have to figure out who that person is. How can this work in large crowds or wide areas where there's a chance the soul won't be removed in time? Why would the reaping system open itself to so much potential failure? It would take nothing away to have the reapers know instinctively who's about to die since the dialogue between reaper and doomed is all that matters anyway.
For some reason the housing issue annoys me. Fine, they live in the homes of the recently deceased. How long can THAT be? Rube seems settled in. Does his building not have a landlord? How do reapers stay out of jail, seeing they're always interacting at crimes scenes, breaking into homes and stealing? Where does Rube get his money? Why doesn't Daisy work? I try to accept the show as is but I think they could have thought through their world a lot more to make it less a minefield of distractions and disbelief.
Season two is starting off aggressively depressing and mean.
Dead Like Me is a good show with a lot of problems.
Description of Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season
You're about to be collected. "Winningly eccentric" (LA Daily News) and "insistently irreverent" (People), this groundbreaking, original series delivers you into a realm of shockingly funny characters and twisted narratives you'll find completely "addictive" (NY Daily News)!When an errant toilet seat from the falling Mir space station puts an abrupt end to her life, George (Ellen Muth) discovers that death is nothing like she thought it would be. Recruited to collect the souls of others as they die, she suddenly finds herself an unwilling participant in a line of work she never knew existed: Grim Reaping!Pay cable's "other"show about life and death, Dead Like Me takes a darkly comic look at mortality through the eyes of someone stuck between this life and the afterlife. "Bail bondsmen for the disembodied" is how Rube (Mandy Patinkin), the often exasperated Reaper foreman, explains it to disaffected 18-year-old George (Ellen Muth) after she's vaporized by a falling toilet seat from the Mir space station and drafted into the ranks of the Reapers. It's now her job to take the souls of the doomed, preferably before their mortal coil is damaged beyond recognition by the devilish machinations of the gremlin-like gravelings.
You wouldn't mistake George's fellow Reapers for the do-gooders of Touched by an Angel, but they are anything but grim. Charming British shyster Mason (Callum Blue) always has some scam brewing, high-living, fun-loving former flapper Betty (Rebecca Gayheart) treats death as a cabaret ("Reaping Havoc"), and one-time starlet and wannabe actress Daisy (Laura Harris) still nurses her dreams of stardom. Even hard-bitten meter maid Roxy (Jasmine Guy) manages to find a way to let loose.
Dead Like Me puts a light touch on black comedy, but it has a sneaky way of using humor to explore loss, loneliness, and regret, as well as kindness, and courage, and responsibility. George gets a hard lesson when she tries to wriggle out of her assignments like some overgrown kid, only to see the damage of her (in)action in "Reapercussions." And as George's angry, tightly-wound mother (Cynthia Stevenson) and withdrawn little sister Reggie cope with death, she breaks the rules to watch over them: their own pouty, glum guardian angel. There's nothing like your own death to put your life into perspective.
The four-disc set features all 14 episodes of the debut season of Showtime's witty black comedy. The feature-length pilot includes optional commentary by cast members Ellen Muth, Mandy Patinkin, Jasmine Guy, Cynthia Stevenson, and Callum Blue. Other supplements include the nominal documentary featurettes Dead Like Me: Behind-the-scenes and The Music of Dead Like Me (with theme song composer Stewart Copeland), 32 deleted scenes, and a still gallery. --Sean Axmaker
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