Dead Like Me

**amykhar** · #1 07-06-2003, 02:31 PM

Has anyone else seen this new Showtime series? It's about a teenage girl who turns into a grim reaper after being killed by a falling toilet seat from the space station Mir.

The big kids and I love this series, and I think you might too if you enjoy dark comedy and drama.

Amy

**amykhar** · #2 07-21-2003, 03:01 PM

I gotta get you guys hooked on this. I need it to become popular so it doesn't get cancelled

theeye · #3 07-21-2003, 03:03 PM

Well, tell us more about it. My husband is still in mourning for Buffy: maybe you can hook him on it.

**theworm**[$] · #4 07-21-2003, 03:06 PM

When's it on? Sounds more like something that Hy and Eye would like, but I'll give it a try.

**amykhar** · #5 07-21-2003, 03:09 PM

It is a dark comedy series put out by showtime. Mandy Pantikin and Jasmine Guy are in it.

Buffy, it a'int.

It's not scary. It's not action. It's most definitely a comic drama. Sort of Stephen King meets Dave Barry

http://www.showtimeonline.com/deadlikeme/characters.cfm

**soxfan**[$] · #6 07-22-2003, 01:17 PM

Drat. Figures a show like this doesn't come along until I move into a house without cable.

Ailsa

**amykhar** · #7 07-22-2003, 01:21 PM

If showtime holds true to form, Fox'll end up syndicating it some time in the future

One nice thing, Showtime has been showing the pilot and first few episodes in mini-marathons from time to time, which allows people to get caught up with who's who and what's what.

*emeleel* · #8 07-22-2003, 01:38 PM

Drat. No cable. I *love* Mandy Patinkin!

**drmomentum**[$] · #9 07-22-2003, 02:05 PM

Don't have SHowtime.

Sounds like something I'd get a kick out of. It's just as well - I can't get any of my to-do list done without TV.

-JP

Magick1 · #10 07-22-2003, 03:25 PM

My husband and I have been trying to catch this. It's not too bad.

The lead actor in this show reminds me of the "young" girl in Dolores Clairborne movie with Kathy Bates.

I cannot recall her name, and I have had no time to research it online.

**soxfan**[$] · #11 07-22-2003, 03:40 PM

There'd be a pretty good reason for that, Kim.

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Muth,%20Ellen

Ailsa

Magick1 · #12 07-22-2003, 09:50 PM

Wowee! I was right! Thanks Ailsa! I appreciate the link!

Now, I know her name too!

Quote:

soxfan said

There'd be a pretty good reason for that, Kim.

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Muth,%20Ellen

Ailsa

**amykhar** · #13 07-23-2003, 12:45 AM

One thing I forgot to mention. The deaths are morbidly funny. A piano falls on one woman. A bear maims a man (doesn't sound funny unless you see it). A guy slips on a banana peel and gets his head caught in a revolving door. Ouch!

But, they are running a contest with monster.com You could win $10,000 and the chance to act out your own death on the show.

What morbidly funny way would you choose to pretend to die?

**pageclot**[$] · #14 08-02-2003, 10:02 PM

How about jumping up and down on an industrial paper shredder to clear a jam, and then having it kick into high gear?

Ok, so it's not the most intelligent way to go, but it did happen around here.

Or, stopping a car with a trailer behind, on a hill, and then unhooking the trailer, to get crushed between the car and the trailer.

Or, putting a motorhome on cruise control and getting up to make myself a sandwich in the galley, and being impaled on our portable satellite dish (stored inside while travelling).

Or, twisting around in the driver's seat, while driving, to get a better look at a passing jogger, and driving over an embankment.

Or, (from a story I heard), cutting a few branches with a chainsaw, of a tree, under compression, that was trapped beneath another fallen one, and having the tree pin you 20 feet up against the trunk of another one.

Whee, that was fun. Thanks, Amy.

P

**pluckyduck** · #15 08-03-2003, 07:07 PM

Love it!!!

I am completely hooked.

I had seen the pilot and then lost track....we're usually on HBO, not Showtime, and I lost track of when it was on. I can't stand missing an episode of a show and trying to get in on Episode Three or whatever.

And then, TA DA, I remembered Comcast On Demand. The On Demand service has Showtime series for free (for subscribers)

banana

I'm caught up through Episode Six...had a Dead Like Me orgy last weekend, watching back-to-back.

banana

I love this show. It's so great, it's worthy of HBO. In the same league with Six Feet Under and The Sopranos. Mighty praise in my book.

Andrea

**amykhar** · #16 08-03-2003, 07:19 PM

Yay! I got a convert! The big kids and I look forward to every Friday when a new episode is aired. Bob doesn't watch it, but he has sucky taste in television

**pluckyduck** · #17 08-03-2003, 07:23 PM

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amykhar said

Yay! I got a convert! The big kids and I look forward to every Friday when a new episode is aired. Bob doesn't watch it, but he has sucky taste in television

I'm so excited that somebody I know has seen it. I hadn't caught this thread and I just assumed that nobody on EA had watched it. I mean, a series on Showtime? Took me forever to find a group here who watched Six Feet Under (the best show on TV today, I might add

)

I actually came to the forum to start a thread.

Amy beat me to it! She's ahead of the curve. This show is special.

Okay, mother:

Normal Human Being OR

PSCYHO BITCH FROM HELL?

I'm voting for the latter.

Andrea

**amykhar** · #18 08-03-2003, 07:37 PM

The mother is growing on me. In the most recent episode, she became a bit more human.

Amy

**pluckyduck** · #19 08-03-2003, 08:58 PM

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amykhar said

The mother is growing on me. In the most recent episode, she became a bit more human.

Amy

She's a well rounded character, yes.

She's still a pscyho bitch from hell.

(Notice the parallel between the mother and Georgia's boss at work. )

Andrea