Dead Like Me: The Complete Series (including that movie thing)

Dead Like Me: The Complete Series (including that movie thing)

                The first season of this show is great.   It sort of jumps the shark when Rebecca Gayhart gets written off after the first few episodes and replaced with a blonde.   Plus, creator Bryan Fuller left so it went in possibly a different direction.  Who knows.   Regardless, for the first two seasons this is a really funny show about death and that’s a rare thing in the world of television.

                The movie however- which was done later on to possibly wrap up the series- really made me mad.   There was always this constant struggle where George couldn’t talk to people from her past, and now all of a sudden the rules no longer apply.   What happened to her opening her mouth and her mother hearing only gibberish?   I guess it’s okay to talk to her sister now if it means that the movie will be better than the actual show.  Oh, and I cannot forget the actress who played Daisy and how she wasn’t the same as the show.   Why bring back a character and not the same actor?   I don’t care if the actress was doing a different movie—write her out of the script and replace her with Daisy’s sister Maisy, an idea which wouldn’t have probably come out as bad as what happened here.

                In short, these episodes from the first two seasons are well worth watching, but do yourself a favor and skip the movie.   It will save you the time that I somehow wasted.