i caught the first episode, but missed this weeks. i'll have to go watch it on the internet. pretty interesting show, it's campy and narrated in a very tim burton-ish style, which i think is its saving grace. any show about a dude that can bring people back to life can't take itself too seriously.

any one else catch it?

Yeah, I wasn't impressed. I can't explain it, but it was like it was trying to be too weird. If you force that stuff it never seems to work.

I watch a half hour of the first before I couldn't take it anymore.
A dude with the ability to bring people back to life, but only for a short while, and can kill with a touch once they're brought back? Why so many rules for his ability? It's not like it's stretching sci-fi television, why make something somewhat complicated more so?

More to the point, it is done Burtonish, but I couldn't stand how it didn't go anywhere within the first half, and I just turned it off. None of these fall shows last anyway, and we still know nothing about 24 Zero Hour.

The only good tv is stuff like The Simpsons, That 70's Show, Family Guy, Two and a half Men, and anything else that's on a regular basis that's "funny".

That 70's Show was cancelled what.. 2 years ago?

Your taste is very pedestrian. Very narrow-minded.

I like it.....it's quirky and cute, kind of like this board used to be back in the Vannaken days.

It still aires on WB18 every day... but new shows are no longer true.

I'm not sure if I should be insulted or not :s

If you feel you were insulted personally, I would suggest reporting it to the moderator.

My point was that you listed your idea of great shows being the lowest common denominator of television: comedy. Not saying I don't enjoy the mindless entertainment that comes from Two and a Half Men etc.. But if those shows are the yardstick against which you measure all other shows, I think anything with any sort of substance is going to fall ridiculously short.

I concur. It's a sad state of mind, but most television shows are too mind numbingly inaccurate and far fetched to be worth watching, for me at least.

24 I think is ok, but after the first two seasons it's just like Alias, good fun, but we all know how it's going to end despite loving the action and suspense.

Bones and CSI may be interesting Mysteries, but in the long run the story doesn't matter, just their rating for that week/month/whatever.

Dancing with Celeberties and Reality TV may be good "real life" channels, but we all know people are gonna fight and yell before the end is near.

Point being, I only judge most shows based on comedic value because I can take laughing reapetidely all /whatever/ long in opposition to my brain screaming of inaccuracies and believability's of other shows. Not that the other shows are bad, I just usually can't stand them.

So if Pushing Daises ends up being good, I'll go ahead and give it another shot. Just like any other show.

Most shows are too inaccurate and/or far-fetched, but you list Family Guy as one of the best ones.

Interesting.