May
30
2009
ThePieMaker.com was invited to the L.A. screening of the final three episodes of PUSHING DAISIES. We’ll be sharing tidbits from each of the last eps over the next few days. This post contains spoilers although I tried not spoil the whole episode. Read at your own risk.
If you’re a fan of PUSHING DAISIES rapid, racing repartee and delicious, delightful dialogue then you’re in for a tasty terrific treat with “Window Dressed to Kill”. Not a single moment of screen time is wasted in this episode written by scribe Abby Gewanter. You’re going to need an extra cup of Joe to make sure you’re fully alert while watching as it’s jam packed with snappy dialogue, stunning visuals and more than a few recognizable guest stars, including Willy Garson, Constance Zimmer, George Segal, Sam Pancake, Wayne Wilderson and more.
Appearances can be deceiving. This episode is all about looking past the curtains of deception to find the true intent behind someone’s actions. Sometimes the reasons are good and sometimes not so much, but no matter what the reason deception can only lead to someone getting hurt…or killed.
Young Olive Snook was kidnapped during a family cocktail party by petty thieves Jerry Holmes and Roy “Buster” Bustamante. The two men were sent to prison for 25 years as a result of their deed. But before their time in the slammer was up, they pulled a Shawshank, and rather than heading to Zihuatanejo, Buster and Jerry set out to find Olive Snook - the little girl responsible for putting them in jail.
But, as we said, appearances can be deceiving. Pull back the curtain and we find that the young Olive Snook was a stowaway in the car that Jerry and Buster stole. They tried to bring Olive home but when she refused to give them any information about her life, they were stuck. A few days later they tracked down Olive’s parents and upon returning her to home they found out that her parents didn’t even know she was gone. Outraged at the behavior of Olive’s parents, Buster & Jerry shared a piece of their mind on better parenting. Not one to take that kind of criticism lightly, the snooty Snooks called the police and had Buster & Jerry carted off to jail for kidnapping, despite the Olive’s plea.
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Oct
01
2008
Television critics are often hard to please. But pleased is just what they are with tonight’s season premiere of PUSHING DAISIES. Here are just a few posts of praise from around the Web. (Spoilers range from the mild to the revealing, so read at your own risk)
Let ‘Pushing Daisies’ Pull You in Again (USA Today)
‘Pushing Daisies’ a Beautiful Bouquet (SF Gate)
Speinwall on TV: ‘Pushing Daisies’ Review (NJ.com)
‘Pushing Daisies Second Season Premiere’ (Cinema Blend)
‘Pushing Daisies’ as Brilliant as Ever (NewsHerald.com)
‘Pushing Daisies’: Bzzzzzzzzz Review (IGN)
Daisy Chain: An Advanced Look at Season 2 of ‘Pushing Daisies’ (Televisionary)
Found a great review of PUSHING DAISIES? Feel free to send it along, as well as any other instances of PUSHING DAISIES in the news.
Sep
19
2008
In this past issue of USA Weekend magazine, E!’s Kristin Dos Santos reached out to a few TV bloggers to get their take on the most anticipated shows returning to TV this Fall. And guess which returning show was the most buzzworthy? Yup, PUSHING DAISIES. Seems these awesome, brilliant, fantastic bloggers* know what they’re talking about.
So clearly PUSHING DAISIES has the bzzzzzzzzz, but it also needs the viewers. Remind friends and families to watch the S2 premiere of PUSHING DAISIES on Wednesday, October 1st at 8pm on ABC. Watch your S1 DVDs and then lend them out to others whom haven’t yet watched the show. I did just that recently and as a result we have a new Pushing Daisies fan who will be tuning in on the 1st. See - it’s that easy
*Ok, maybe I embellished a little. But as one of the bloggers interviewed for the article, I thought it would be ok to toot my own horn as I did show Pushing Daisies the love. Ha. –Kath
Fall TV: Who’s got buzz?
E!’s TV expert gets top bloggers to reveal which shows fans are talking about most.
By Kristin Dos Santos
COULD IT BE “30 Rock?” Maybe “Prison Break”? To find out which shows will have the biggest online buzz this fall, we went straight to the source — the elusive “blogosphere.” We assembled our first-ever panel of TV bloggers, who weighed in on their returning TV favorites.
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Feb
06
2008
TV critics love PUSHING DAISIES. So much so that PUSHING DAISIES was named the best show in TelevisionWeek’s semiannual survey of TV critics nationwide. This was the show’s first appearance in the poll, so a #1 spot was a surprise.
As for what the critics are saying about the show, Ellen Gray of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote that “Daisies” is “sweet without making your teeth hurt, smart without making your head hurt; this one’s actually living up to the promise of its pilot.”
PUSHING DAISIES appointment at the top of the leader board is impressive considering its company.
Top Ten Best Series (per TV Week’s Critics Poll)
1. Pushing Daisies
2. Mad Men
3. Dexter
4. 30 Rock
5. Friday Night Lights
6. Damages
7. House
8 (tie). The Office
8 (tie). Ugly Betty
10. Californication
The list of the worst shows after the jump
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Dec
21
2007
PUSHING DAISIES not only made it on to Entertainment Weekly’s Best Shows of 2007, but it came in at #2….quite impressive.
Here’s what EW had to say about it…
Filled with mermaid divers and windmill farms, Pushing Daisies is a fantastically fantastical, bubble-gum-colored fable about a pie maker named Ned (Lee Pace), who magically brings his childhood love, Chuck (Anna Friel), back to life with his touch but will kill her if he ever makes contact again. Between solving oddball mysteries involving puppy cloning and scratch-’n'-sniff empires, Chuck and Ned banter and moon at each other. (As Ned’s gruff detective buddy, wonderful Chi McBride undercuts any excess sweet.) When so many TV couples are bickery brats, there’s something strangely mature about this chaste pair. It’s easy to whip up a juicy drama about evildoing bastards — it takes a boatload of creativity to make all this niceness so mesmerizing.
Bravo….bravo!!
Dec
05
2007
It’s Wednesday! Sadly there is no Pushing Daisies to watch tonight. Need your Ned and Chuck fill? How about spending your time with us, talking about Pushing Daisies?
ThePieMaker.com presents our first Pushing Daisies PieCast! From the town of Coeur d’Coeur these two Pie Hos talk about the genius of Pushing Daisies’ first 8 episodes. Which episode was our favorite? Which episode disappointed us most? Which guest star had the best death? Which Ned and Chuck moment made us squee and much much more.
It’s all here as Ned (dan.) and Chuck (Kath) don their aprons and roll out some delicious Pushing Daisies chatter.
Listen Online: PieCast #1
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This podcast has been posted as a special edition of the Ducky Does TV & Give Me My Remote TV Podcast. If this becomes a popular post we may make this is a permanent fixture at ThePieMaker.com
Nov
01
2007
Thursday morning means a whole mess of bloggers talking about last night’s episode of PUSHING DAISIES “Girth”. Here’s a round-up of reviews/recaps for your enjoyment. As always, leave your comments on last night’s episode at our “Girth” post!
South Dakota Dark
It Happened Last Night (Zap2it)
The AV Club
BuddyTV
TVJab
TV with MeeVee
TV Guide
More reviews/recaps on the way. Stay tuned.
Oct
11
2007
We here at ThePieMaker.com loved last night’s episode of PUSHING DAISIES entitled “Dummy” but we may be a little biased. We were all mush after watching Ned and Chuck have their bodybag kiss and later hold gloved hands. Squeeing all the way until this morning.
So, to get some other opinions we once again head on into the world of online reviews and blogs to see what the masses are saying.
Buzz Sugar
If you thought “Pushing Daisies” couldn’t get any cuter than last week’s pie-lette, think again. This week’s episode brought us a singing Kristin Chenoweth, knitted gun cozies, and a car that runs on dandelions. I thought it was perfect, but was it too twee for you? Read the rest of the review at Buzz Sugar
Give Me My Remote
I wish I could properly convey just how much I love PUSHING DAISIES. I love it so much I want to marry every single second of it. Only two episodes in and it’s already in the Top 5 of my favorite shows of all time (and that’s not a category that I take lightly). Now that’s love. I’d tell you about last night’s episode but I wouldn’t know where to begin. There was so much going on from the visuals, to the dialogue to me obsessing over just how close Ned & Chuck came to touching that I was left feeling overwhelmed…but the good kind of overwhelmed. Read the rest of the review at Give Me My Remote
TV With MeeVee
The danger of a brilliantly charming pilot is that it sets the bar very high for the second episode. Doing it right once is much, much easier than doing it right every time. Fortunately for “Pushing Daisies” - and for us - they’re two for two Read the rest of this review at MeeVee.
MediaVillage
Right off the bat, this show is triumphant in its self-awareness. It’s kooky, it’s weird, it’s cute, and as Ned puts it, it’s “eccentric in a quaint way, like dessert spoons.” All the little details in the first few scenes were great. Up until she was in her teens, Chuck thought a refrigerator was called a cheesebox. Read the rest of the review at MediaVillage
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Oct
04
2007
I hope everyone has recovered from last night’s premiere of PUSHING DAISIES because this morning I’ve still got visions of sugar plum pies dancing in my head. For those of you still in a coma from all the greatness, snap out of it because we’re just getting started.
Chuck and I wanted to gather as many TV Blog reviews as possible because let’s face it, the real honest opinions are those of the bloggers. They’re opinionated, catty, hilarious, and as obsessed with television as we all are. The best cure for a sugar high is to continue feeding those cravings.
ThePieMaker.com compiles online reviews:
*Updated - 10/5
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