Was it wrong that the death scene made me laugh? It’s the voiceover guy’s fault…when he said he died because of “spilled coffee and his own determination” or something along those lines, I couldn’t help but laugh.
This show loves cleavage, doesn’t it? And I love this show for it.
Speaking of Kristin Chenowith (the future Mrs. Saint), is she part hobbit or is Ned eight feet tall?
Chi McBride steals every scene he’s in. I think he’s the real star of this show.
Hmmmm…and here this polygamist (okay, not quite, but my husband has other girlfriends, if not wives) was doing the roll-eyes because of COURSE the First Wife was unhappy about the arrangement and the Third Wife was only in it as a business arrangement and the only one happy about her “sister-wives” was the dippy immature stupid one. In short, no, they were still condemning polygamy, although I admit it was less harsh on my buzz than most Hollywood editorials on the lifestyle. And I did like that, by the end, Chuck finally spoke up and admitted that SHE might also eventually need someone else - she’s been entirely too self-sacrificing to Ned’s theoretical needs, with no mention of her own 'cept guilt over the hand-holding thing.
In other news, I loved the pseudonyms–and the blindness caused by the same reason the aunt is blind. And the fact that despite the fact that they were all supposed to lie all the time to the four wives, they were easily traced back to the pie shop shaped like a pie.
And the whole 4 wives, four “sleuths”–but only one dog bit.
And the funeral–with everyone dressed in black with veils and such. It was just so black. I especially loved the blackness of the funeral by contrast to the last funeral I went to, where the only black was on a couple of men wearing suits–most of us women just wore normal church-y clothes. Granted, the last funeral I went to was my grandmother’s, and she was not murdered, but still, . . .
And I also liked the way that they reasoned themselves out of asking the second dead guy who killed him–but reanimated him later.
If I didn’t love this show so much, I might continue watching just for Chuck’s outfits. They’re so cute! So are Olive’s, but I think she relies too much on the lime green/bright orange thing. Emerson, on the other hand, has the worst fashion sense. Tweed sportcoat with bright flowery shirt? Eeek.
Kind of weird that both “Pushing Daisies” and “Life” dealt with a dead polygamist last night.
Is it sad that this show is one of the highlights of my week?
I absolutely loved Emerson’s dream sequence–quirky and kitschy in a good way.
Does anyone else think that Simone will be back?
And finally, one thing that bugged me: why did each of the four wives say that they had given the husband his coffee on the day he died? Or did each of them give him coffee separately that morning? If so, then Emerson wasn’t kidding–the dude really was over-caffeinated.
The death was easily the most disturbingly portrayed yet. You had this awful, horrid thing going on, with the victim aware that it was happening and having absolutely no way to stop it from happening, over and over, and at the same time you had this whimsical narration combined with the whimsical tone of the whole show. It was really weird to be getting a simultaneous “That’s HORRIBLE!/That’s HILARIOUS!” vibe. Kind of squicked me out a little. The vibe, not the death. Well, the death too. I have this…thing…about dying slowly and painfully while fully aware of what’s happening and not having any way to affect it. But mostly the vibe.
That dream was fantastic! Right after it ended, my 16 yr-old daughter and I both started laughing and agreed that the show was worth watching if only to catch something that wierd each week!
And if Simone is the dog trainer, I sure hope she’ll be back! Rowr!
The dream sequence was actually a pitch-perfect parody of the dream sequence from Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
It was fun seeing Joel McHale (from E!'s The Soup) doing an acting gig, too. Fun ep (though man, sleeping in the same room as Chuck every night; I don’t know I could handle that).
