One of My Favorite Shows:
My favorite show of all time will always be the Simpsons, but a close second and quite underrated one at that is Dead Like Me.
From Wikipedia:
Dead Like Me is an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers who "live" and work in Seattle, Washington. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime network, where it ran for two seasons in 2003 and 2004 before cancellation. Fuller left the show five episodes into the first season due to creative differences; creative direction of Dead Like Me was then taken over by executive producers John Masius and Stephen Godchaux. A direct-to-DVD movie titled Dead Like Me: Life After Death was released on February 17, 2009,[1] with an option to restart the series.[2]
Eighteen-year-old Georgia "George" Lass (played by Muth) is the show's protagonist and narrator. George dies early in the pilot episode. She becomes one of the "undead", a "grim reaper". George soon learns that a Reaper's job is to remove the souls of people, preferably just before they die, and escort them until they move on into their afterlife. George's death leaves her mother (Cynthia Stevenson) and the rest of her family behind at a point when her relationships with them were on shaky ground. At the end of the movie the post-its and George's statement that she is "fucked" indicate that she is going to be Rube's replacement as head of the Seattle "external influence" division reapers.
The show explores the "lives" and experiences of a small team of such Reapers, as well as the post-mortem changes in George and her family as they deal with George's death.
It is a brilliant show, with exceptional actors, but of course, like all the great shows (Arrested Development, Pushing Daisies (from the same creator as Dead Like Me) and My Name is Earl) it was canceled by the ignoramus networks and left with a major cliffhanger ending.
Don't bother watching the movie that was made after the cancellation in hopes of sewing up the ends called Dead Like Me: Life After Death because it is honestly the most awful film I've ever seen. It changes key characters, even leaving out one of the main ones, opens up and fails to close new plot holes and doesn't even wrap up the questions left open in the series. It's just terrible and makes me feel sorry that such a great series was done even more wrong.
Definitely check out the show though, if you have a change. It is on both Netflix and Hulu and really is worth a watch, I promise.
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