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REVIEW FORPUSHING DAISIES
Season Two… so far
Created by Brian Fuller
(more credits will be listed below)

I didn’t catch Pushing Daisies last season, and due to the late release of the DVD this September, I had to haul ass to watch it in time to be all caught up by the time the second season hit the tube.  Well, it was an impossible feat.  Thankfully, my trusty DVR has been storing all the episodes for me, and I’m finally caught up.

A lot has happened.  This season seems to focus more on longer story arcs than the first season did, because within the span of three episodes, Olive gets to a nunnery, Emerson Cod takes his search for his daughter to the… pop-up books, Chuck decides to move out, and Ned begins to learn how to deal with his loneliness.  Aunts Lilly and Vivian also take a huge step… out of the house and into the Pie Hole, which causes major issues with Chuck.  The show continues to make what seems silly end up heartfelt and well done.  Hell, Olive was a freaking nun in training and it didn’t suck.  How is that possible?

Much like the entire first season, none of the episodes really stand out as being great.  I really did enjoy “Bad Habits,” but what really gets me about this show is the little things, such as Emerson Cod’s book (”Lil’ Gumshoe”) designed to help his daughter find him.  I loved Ned’s decision about living arrangements at the end of this week’s episode, “Frescorts.”  I’m thrilled that this show continues to be so strange and so innovative each week, though I’m still truly waiting for the show’s first great episode.  Bryan Fuller’s first episode of Dead Like Me was at the great level.  The entire last act of Fuller’s Wonderfalls was.  I hope it comes soon from Pushing Daisies.

7/10

CREDITS:
2×01: Bzzzzzzz! (Written by Brian Fuller. Directed by Adam Kane.)
2×02: Circus Circus (Written by Peter Ocko. Directed by Lawrence Trilling.)
2×03: Bad Habits (Written by Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts. Directed by Peter O’Fallon.)
2×04: Frescorts (Written by Lisa Joy, Gretchen J. Berg, and Aaron Haberts. Directed by Peter Lauer.)

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