"Dead Like Me" is Dead
I finished the last episode of "Dead Like Me" over the weekend, and now I'm kinda sad. You see, DLM (as I shall refer to it henceforth) is one of the best shows ever made in history, and I shall miss it.
DLM ran for two seasons on Showtime and was released on DVD, which is how I watched it. It tells the story of an 18-year old girl who dies suddenly (hit by a toilet seat off the space station Mir) and tragically (on her first day at her real job) but does not go on to what waits... well, beyond. Instead, she becomes a Grim Reaper. Not by choice, mind you, she actually tries to deny it for a while and causes all sorts of trouble.
She becomes a part of a group of Grim Reapers, all of them people who died without completing accomplishing what they had been meant to. It then becomes their job to take the souls of the about-to-die before they are killed so persons never feel any pain, and then usher them to their afterlife.
The series was rather morbid in its two seasons, with this particular group of Reapers covering non-natural death. That's right, they take different departments. The star group covered accidental death and murders, and there were others that, for example, covered natural causes or plagues. Natural Causes was the nicest beat to work, while plague duty often entailed centuries of boredom. Yeardley Smith, one of the voices from the Simpsons, played a Reaper who took Natural Causes detail.
I watched the first season in September 2004, and the second season just this month. 29 episodes. All of them amazing, and here's why: This show's subject may have been death, but it wasn't depressing. It was beautiful, and it made you want to live and smile after watching an episode.
Now I'm thinking about buying this.
DLM ran for two seasons on Showtime and was released on DVD, which is how I watched it. It tells the story of an 18-year old girl who dies suddenly (hit by a toilet seat off the space station Mir) and tragically (on her first day at her real job) but does not go on to what waits... well, beyond. Instead, she becomes a Grim Reaper. Not by choice, mind you, she actually tries to deny it for a while and causes all sorts of trouble.
She becomes a part of a group of Grim Reapers, all of them people who died without completing accomplishing what they had been meant to. It then becomes their job to take the souls of the about-to-die before they are killed so persons never feel any pain, and then usher them to their afterlife.
The series was rather morbid in its two seasons, with this particular group of Reapers covering non-natural death. That's right, they take different departments. The star group covered accidental death and murders, and there were others that, for example, covered natural causes or plagues. Natural Causes was the nicest beat to work, while plague duty often entailed centuries of boredom. Yeardley Smith, one of the voices from the Simpsons, played a Reaper who took Natural Causes detail.
I watched the first season in September 2004, and the second season just this month. 29 episodes. All of them amazing, and here's why: This show's subject may have been death, but it wasn't depressing. It was beautiful, and it made you want to live and smile after watching an episode.
Now I'm thinking about buying this.
posted by Logan C. Adams at 10/25/2005 11:18:00 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home