Can I just say, I love TV? My love of good TV actually rivals my love of knitting. And I'm not ashamed to admit it. So there. Well, okay, maybe I'm a little ashamed.
My absolute favorite new show this season is Pushing Daisies. It is by the guy who created Wonderfalls, which I saw on DVD last year and absolutely loved, as well as Dead Like Me. The style is highly whimsical, while also rather twisted. It's about a guy who can bring people back from the dead by touching them once, then can make them dead again with a second touch. And if he leaves them alive for more than a minute, someone else in the vicinity dies instead. He goes around with a P.I. solving murders by waking up dead people and asking them who killed them. He also makes delicious pies. And it's very romantic as well - he woke from the dead his childhood sweetheart, a girl named Chuck, couldn't bring himself to make her dead again, and now he can't touch her (because she would die again) even though they're totally hot for each other. It also features Kristin Chenoweth (whom I adore) as his pie-shop employee who is hopelessly in love with him. (On last night's episode, she actually broke out into "Hopelessly Devoted" from Grease, to hilarious effect.)
Whimsy. I really like whimsy. If you liked the movie Amelie, you'd probably like this show.
Oh, and there's knitting! By the P.I., played by Chi McBride (who is obviously not a knitter in real life), whose knitting needles actually plays a vital role in the plot of the second episode. I particularly liked when he knit a sweater vest with gun cozies.
I'm also digging the new seasons of House, Ugly Betty and Heroes, and am taking a wait-and-see approach with Grey's Anatomy. It had been an obsession of mine in the first two seasons, but the show went horribly, horribly wrong last year. The writers claim this season will be back on track. We'll see. Please, Grey's writers, please, please stop the George and Izzie madness. Watching them almost-kiss is like watching brothers and sisters kiss.
That reminds me - I also love Brothers & Sisters. Fantastic cast, delightfully soapy.
What are you watching?
Love, love, love Pushing Daisies. Hope it develops the audience it deserves. I watch all that you mentioned except Heroes, plus a bunch more (Boston Legal, CSI - all except Miami, Mad Men, and on and on).
Posted by: Jocelyn | October 11, 2007 at 01:39 PM
We don't have cable, so no tv for us until it comes through Netflix. I just started Arrested Development that way!
Posted by: Danielle | October 11, 2007 at 02:10 PM
The only new show that we really love is Life. It is actually quite humor-filled for a police drama, but the under current of the main character's search for the person or persons that set him up for murder, causing him to spend 12 years in jail for the crime he didn't commit (and being treated much the way you might expect a cop to be treated in jail) creates a darkness balancing out the humor. I love it.
Posted by: Teresa C | October 11, 2007 at 03:02 PM
Jill's obsessed with Brothers and sisters too. I just watch Office and 30 Rock and whatever comes via Netflix ...
But wait, in Daisies, does this mean that since he kept Chuck live, people in the area keep dying every minute?
Posted by: Dan | October 11, 2007 at 04:02 PM
No, only one other person dies after he keeps someone alive for more than a minute. But there is further drama in his inability to tell Chuck that when they were 9, and he first discovered his ability, he accidentally killed her father by keeping his own mother alive for more than a minute. (His mother then died again when she gave him a kiss goodnight, which is how he discovered that a second touch would make them dead again.)
Posted by: Alison | October 11, 2007 at 04:25 PM
I'm enjoying Pushing Daisies, but I'm not sure if I'm loving yet. I haven't watched the 2nd episode yet, though. I just finished Netflixing Wonderfalls and I didn't love it as much as I loved Dead Like Me, but I'm not sure why.
This season, I'm digging Heroes, Chuck, Reaper, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock and My Name is Earl.
And never apologize for loving TV. There are some really well done shows out there.
Posted by: Jennu | October 12, 2007 at 12:42 PM
I like Daisies, too. No Grey's for me until reruns. The Office is on at the same time!
Posted by: Linda in Chicagoland | October 12, 2007 at 04:53 PM
I love Pushing Daisie's. I also have to admit, I am surprised to be enjoying Dirty Sexy Money. (I feel almost embarassed to say that!) It's the lead guy--what's his name? I loved him in Six Feet Under so I think it's carrying over!
Posted by: knitting bandit | October 16, 2007 at 11:10 AM
I'm not really liking Daisie's. I think I'll give it one more episode. I find Chenoweth completely under utilized. She is clearly never going to get the guy as long as Chuck is there so what is her point. She's too great an actress for a very minor part. Also, Chuck's questions to the dead dandelion guy were infuriating to me. I actually yelled for her to shut up. One more week of fairy tale whimsy before I flip away.
Posted by: Amanda | October 16, 2007 at 03:44 PM