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Pushing Daisies
Season Two
Episode Seven
“Robbing Hood”
Written by Jim Danger Gray
Directed by Paul Shapiro

The facts were these: Pushing Daisies was cancelled last week.  ABC will probably air the rest of this thirteen episode season, which ends on a cliffhanger, but after that, our Wednesday nights with the Pie Maker will be a thing of the past.  A lot of people are enraged at this cancellation, but I’m actually okay with it.  Pushing Daisies was good, but it was also the least impressive piece of Bryan Fuller’s body of work.  With the second season, the show has become sort of monotonous, and I can’t help but think I’d prefer to see Fuller putting his nose to an entirely different grindstone, as much as I’ll miss the show when its gone.

Ironically, this week’s episode was quite good.  The mystery, involving an old rich man and his Anna Nicole Smith type wife, was probably the best one this season, and the emotional B plot going on was also interesting.  Dwight, friend of both Chuck and Ned’s father, continues to scheme after coming to the realization that the thought-to-be-deceased-by-her-aunts Chuck is actually alive and kicking… well, not so much kicking as working at a pie joint, but you get the picture.  Ned and Chuck go back and forth on the idea of bringing Chuck’s father back to life for one minute to get information about Dwight, which makes for a nice cliff hanger in the end.

Some funny one-liners and the most interesting mystery of the week this season made this an episode that I mostly enjoyed, but still… I’m more excited to see what Fuller comes up with next.

7/10