Pushing Daisies
Pushing Daisies (2007) is an American television series created by Bryan Fuller. It is a "forensic fairy tale" about a young man who has the ability to bring dead things back to life when he touches them.
Cast
- Lee Pace as Ned
- Anna Friel as Charlotte "Chuck" Charles
- Chi McBride as Emerson Cod
- Swoosie Kurtz as Lily Charles
- Ellen Greene as Vivian Charles
- Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook
- Jim Dale as The Narrator
The entire cast is white, except for McBride. Two out of the three main characters are men, but the rest of the characters are women.
Overview
Ned is a pie-maker who has the ability to bring dead things back to life with one touch. If he touches a second time something he has resurrected, it dies permanently, and if he allows anything he has resurrected to live for more than a minute, something else dies in consequence.
Ned frequently teams up with Emerson Cod, a private detective, to solve crimes by briefly resurrecting murder victims in order to learn about how they died.
During one such investigation, he brings back his childhood sweetheart, Chuck, and cannot bring himself to kill her again. Because she has been officially declared dead, she has to adjust to a new life incognito, and moves in with Ned, inserting herself into Ned and Emerson's investigations (beginning with their combined attempt to solve her own murder).
The tentative romantic feelings between Ned and Chuck are hindered by the condition that if they should ever touch, it would kill her instantly. And there is also the fact, which Ned has kept a secret, that his temporary (but longer-than-a-minute) resurrection of his mother during his childhood was the cause of Chuck's father's death.
Notes
The series lead actor, Lee Pace, played Jaye's brother on Wonderfalls, a series which Bryan Fuller co-created that also featured a lead character with an unusual gift. However, unlike the inanimate objects that talked to Jaye, Ned's gift does not inherently place his sanity into question.
Fuller also created the show Dead Like Me, which had a similar quirky sensibility but had a female protagonist, George Lass (another female character with a "male" nickname).
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