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This person BeLOW me is making assumptions that no one should make ..This is the type of person who said "Female Starbuck...Noone will ever watch it!". Give the writers a chance this was a great show and they dealt with actor(s) leaving in a manner that was true to the material. I have all faith that the DLM movie will be just as good as the series. On that note; They have been taking their sweet time on getting it out (Spring release?). Maybe they are gonna get it right.

It hasn't jumped so far, but just wait til the DVD Movie comes out and i'm sure we'll be able to pinpoint it.

Rube leaving, Old Daisy leaving, no more Der Waffle Haus. All spell disaster. Throw in that guy from Lost giving them cues from a swanky restaurant and i get really worried.

Even more worrying is the fact that the movie is complete only MGM won't release it for another 6 months because they don't want to spend any money on it.

In conclusion - Awesome show. About to have it's resurrected corpse violated.

Jumped in 2nd season.

I love the 1st season of Dead Like Me. It's witty, original and so on. The fourth one with the Ab-Solver belt always makes me laugh.

Some parts of the 2nd season are unwatchable-y bad. I think my reasons for this are I was just dissatisfied with the "conclusions" to the sub-stories - George's boyfriend, Rube's daughter and, the worst of the worst, Ray's death. There was so much that could have been done with these and it just wasn't. I felt all I was being offered was some weak, flimsy "let's end this idea" explanation. Although admittedly I did love the season finale and I would have liked to have seen a 3rd season JUST for the completion of Rube's back-story.

Dead Like Me never jumped. I first saw it three months ago as sunday filler on WB, and really enjoy it, checking out all the DVDs. I enjoy the writing and acting. Ellen Muth is great, and her fellow reapers work well, and Geore's boss at Happytime is worth the show by itself, as is Crystal...a 3d version of The Far Side. The episodes really have to be seen a couple of times, and the humor and thoughtfulness of them are pleasing. Mandy as Rube is great. I liked Betty, and Daisy took some getting used to, but I got to like her. She, like all the reapers, have their own complexities and problems. As George observed, they all seemed better off dead than alive. Callem Blue is also fun...so screwed-up but also insightful. The struggle of Reggie to become less psycho was hard to take at first, but it was resolved brillaintly in the last episode, when George lays the candy by her and walks off with a last look at Reggie. it was a beautiful conclusion to a series, and most don't end well. The only problem I had was Kiffany. She seemed inserted in just to have another black on the show. The other waitress was better. And Der Wafle Haus was a great locale, as was Happy time. George's family shifted gears, but it underscored the loss George brought them, and how she realized too late that she...and all of us...have an effect on other people. We are more significant than we think. This was DLM's message, and although I could do with less swearing, this is the way it is on cable (actors like to swear). And I thought Rube's singing was in keeping with the story. I'll probably buy the DVD's. I like to write, and see a lot of thought in the series and characters. As for a movie...I think the series said it all, and its final episode was poignant. When I get reaped, I hope George is the one who gives me the swipe.

This show was great. And more than great.
I was really annoyed while reading some of the comments here. Everyone is entitled to have an oppinion, but I strongly disagree with some of them.
First of all, this show isn't made for dumb people. There is so much depth in every character, every scene. I strongly believe that people who criticise the show simply don't understand it.
Despite being an atheist (which means that I don't believe in any form of aferlife) I have no problem with the plot concentrating on the reapers. I actually like it a lot.It's innovative and refreshing. It's stupid to call a Sci-Fi movie a bad one just because you don't believe something like that can occur in reality. And DLM is far from being just about reaping and death.
DLM is also a very funny show. Of course, there are a lot of sarcasm which is not something everyone can understand. DLM is not for those people who think a good laugh is impossible without a dirty joke or humor seen in movies such as "Dumb and Dumber".
Attractive actors don't make a show grear, talented actors do. I personally cannot see why is Ellen Muth that terribly ugly. I don't think she's ugly at all. If you watch something only to look at the appearence of actors, go and watch shows where everything is about beutiful characters jumping into each other's beds.

DLM is simply a fantastic show. I can't wait for the DVD.

heath ledger is dead? no way!!!

One of the best shows ever. Can't wait to see the movie. All the characters hava a certain depth. They are all different and complex.I love the humor, dark and sarcastic. Simply brilliant.

too bad the show was canceled but i can see why. the second season had nothing to do with the first one, the point of the show completely changed and as well the characters.

as for people dissing ellen muth, look her up on imdb. she's a member of mensa and her father has an optician museum dedicated to him. when you've done as much, then you can talk.

Without a doubt this series is one of the best I've ever seen. It's one of the few that bears watching more than once, and for me everytime I watch an episode again I find something new to think about.

After Bryan Fuller left in the first season, it actually got better and by the end of the second season the producer/writers really knew their story and cast and were delivering some of the best storytelling on TV.

That MGM decided to come out with a Movie to continue the story give evidence that it never jumped, and depending on well that does MGM may restart the series.

Some of the episodes were bad shows and some were good shows. The series suffered from uneven direction, writing, and editing. Jumped on season two. Rube treated Georgia like a daughter in season one and then like a stranger in season two. The reason given was interesting enough, but there should have been some reconciliation when Rube's daughter died. Instead, nothing.

This programme jumped day 1 for me because it didn't really have the heart to follow through on it's premise as it should have and really allow things to develop organically from what was a fundamentally proposterous idea. Instead, it was like someone wrote down a list of what they wanted in show-- 20-something-spunky, snark-serving, heroine. Black humour. The Supernatural. Quirk. Wacky regular brunches (basically exposition-fests). Etc-- and then worked out a premise to fit around it. Like, forced these elements into the basic concept?

This may seem like a stupid thing to get bothered about and it's not like no other shows haven't done the same thing (thinking about Quantum Leap here) but George (the protagonist) shouldn't really have been played by the same actress after she died. Because we were shown (once, briefly) in the pilot episode that after she came back as a Reaper her appearance was, in fact, completely different. Personally, I never understood why that was necessary since I assumed that the reason no one from her previous life recognised her was some mystical, intangible force. Not because she just looked different! It's so obvious that in this show (and frequently in Quantum Leap, especially that Vietname ep. where Sam was black) you are supposed to think that everyone else is seeing the same character you are seeing, with the same attributes. Why go to the trouble of showing us that she looked like this completely different chick who we never (?) see again? If they were so into the lead actress why didn't they just cast her as the post-death Georgia?

Also I hate quasi-anthropomosing crap like this... Death is as a force of nature not a bunch of fallible, grumpy people walking around with Post-Its. Judging by their workrate that's a phenomenal amount of people supposedly inhabiting human bodies and clogging up the planet (by not departing). Let me try and explain it a different way... if you were all powerful would you travel from place to place by taking a train? Even if it were a flying train which went really fast? Of course you wouldn't. You could will yourself to be whereever you wanted so why would you insert unecessary variables into that situation? That's what the Reapers were: unecessary variables.

If you are implying that there is some kind of afterlife why would you feel that it could also follow that "Oh, but, you can't get there unless you have this person to help transport your physical spirit to the beam point. Yes, I know that you no longer really exist but you still have to have kind of spirit body which goes from place to place... and you still need people to tell you what to do because you are not at the afterlife quite yet... Why would moving to the afterlife involve a bottle neck? Well, it's not magic we are talking about?!"-- It is magic though! That's the point, you know? The thing is, in many ways the powers they have tantalising imply, you know, something all-powerful? But then they have these daft rules, these inefficient post-its, their emotions getting in the way, the fact that they have to figure out from something as earthly as a name who they are reaping, the fact they take so damn, long to do their job. These annoyances just really used to accumulate over the course of watching an episode. I know the vibe they were going for: a Ghostbusters, down at heel type of feel-- it's a zany and supernatural but you know what? It's also just a job!!! Didn't work for me.

I'm glad that the creator has moved onto something else, hopefully his schtick is a bit more refined now (Pushing Daisies has not yet aired in the UK) because I can see what he was trying to get at and it wasn't without charm. It was just that I didn't agree with the USP, as it were, at all. It was too 'out there' for it's own good.

Oh yeah, and the horrible Desparate Housewivish, Voice-Over-To-Elucidate-Theme-Of-The-Week was absolutely despicable. As was the parallel storyline involving George's family-- stick with the high concept for God's Sake. Those segments were like watching a rubbish, underpowered Six Feet Under.

This show was like many cable based shows. A new management team comes in and has the attitude of "Hey, this was my predecessors show. I can't keep this, I don't care how good it is. I have to show that I'm my own man!!!!.
That's what happened at Showtime with Dead Like Me. It almost made the transition but, a new team came in and didn't want to base part of thier success on a previous teams triumph.

Great show, Show Time runs things into the ground though. Loved how it was actually about real life and real people. Yes it was about average. The Happy Time staff was like most offices. How often do you have a group like on most shows. A very diverse yet everyday group.

Can't wait for the movie to come out!

This is a great show,just becuse all the charatcers are screwing eachother doesnt mean its not a good show.Also,since when does the main female star have to be hot?Really,get more maturaity if you like/dislike a shoe becuse of how everyone looks.Ellen Muth looks perfectly fine,no she may not look like Anne Hathway or Kristen Bell[[or any other celebs,those are just the first i thought of]] but she is okay.But the thing is,you shouldn't pay attention to the looks,pay attention to the acting.I'm sad that Rube isnt going to be on the dvd,thats sad,he was a great character.Well eaither way,great show!Hope they bring it back.

First rule of tv, no uggos.What is this obsession with the beauty, or lack thereof, of the female characters? Funny is funny. I only recently caught this show on SciFi and am disappointed that it is no longer in production. It's funny. In fact, there was a time when pretty girls were not allowed to be funny. Think Dick van Dyke...Rosemarie, the plain jane spinster is funny, Mary Tyler Moore is not. Millie, the funky looking next door neighbor is also given funnier lines. There would be no Phyllis Diller if being pretty was a criteria for comedy. In fact, her entire act was predicated on how ugly she was. Martha Rae, Mary Wicks they were considered funny because they LOOKED funny. Imogene Coca, wow that was an ugly broad. Make me laugh, that's all I want from a comedy. And this was one really funny, dark comedy.