Dead Like Me Showtime Series

[Magick1]

The new season starts next week.

Is anyone as excited as I am to finally have this one back?

[amykhar]

I am! The only reason we turned showtime back on is for this series. Sarah, Kareem and I love it!

[hymie[$]]

My DVR records it. Good show, although I haven't made sense of the mythology yet.

[erik_kosberg]

I'm one of 17 people in the U.S. who doesn't have cable. But I do have Netflix and have so far watched 6 episode from the first season. Great show!

[amykhar]

The season starts tomorrow night. It's not too late to sign up for Showtime if you have Directv - you can do it online and it takes effect immediately.

Amy

[Magick1]

I am so excited!

[amykhar]

Kim and Hy, what did you think of the first episode this season? To me, the episode was not like a season premiere. Nothing big happened. Just the same, good show as always. But, I got to thinking about some things.

1. Where does Rube get his money? And Daisy too?
2. What do the reapers who work do for ID? Do they have mob connections of some kind to get them fake social security cards?

Things like this can really blow my mind; so I hope the series writer explains them soon.

Amy

[Magick1]

I would guess the people might borrow the ss info from the people they take? I don't know.

Money, good question.

The season opener was a bit odd in the normal sense of season openers. But, considering you have to be a bit warped to really enjoy the darkness of this series, nothing surprises me.

I felt that the birthday thing was a hard way to go. What a memory for the little tyke.

[erik_kosberg]

What do the reapers who work do for ID? Do they have mob connections of some kind to get them fake social security cards?

In either the first or second episode of the first season, Rube takes George to a government office (the Department of Motor Vehicles?) where she’s given a variety of identification documents by an employee who’s a grim reaper.

[amykhar]

Now why don't I remember that? That eases my mind, though. Thank you

[Magick1]

I knew I should have watched these when they replayed the series in the last couple of months.

I forgot about that. It makes sense, though. Now, how do they make their money?

I recall one episode where the reaper was learning how to forge a signature for an elderly woman that he had just come to get. She was leaning over his shoulder telling him how to do it. Maybe this is how Rube & Daisy get their money?

[amykhar]

Yep, Mason's a crook. Daisy probably is at some level too. Not sure about Rube though. He seems above that.

[erik_kosberg]

Unlike agnostic me, the reapers all know there's a higher power. Since their eventual fates are all still unknown, I find it kind of odd that some, like Mason, get by as they do. They know they're being watched.

[Magick1]

But, what will happen to them, really?

I think they already feel that they are being punished having to stay behind and do this work, and for what - peanuts. They have the ability to continue "living" if you will, and they have no clue when the will be able to move on to the next planned activity.

(That brings up another question, how is it that the lady (I cannot recall her name) that Daisy replaced was able to move on with the Irishman that died by swordfish in the bar while he was dancing on the bar and celebrating his birthday? She jumped right in with the Irishman. How was she able to do that? And, why don't the other reapers try that too?)

[amykhar]

Nobody knows what really happened to Betty, Kim.

[Magick1]

I hate it when that happens.

I like knowing things like this too. I remembered the group sitting in the waffle house talking about it and George wondering what happened to her.

At least I am not losing my mind thinking, maybe, it was explained I did not catch it!

Thanks!