I hear you, but I think this is leavened with the tongue firmly in cheek (and, to me, the casualties seem evenly divided between males and females). After all, George the heroine became part of the "reaper" team after being killed by a toilet.
In the last episode I saw, George is sent to collect a soul. You don't know who the soul is but several candidates seem likely. A young couple is standing on the boardwalk watching a street juggler juggle bowling pins. The are arguing about whether or not to place a few dollars in the street juggler's hat. As they are arguing young boys on skateboards zip back and forth and the street juggler switches from juggling bowling pins to juggling machetes. As the street juggler is juggling machetes the man of the young couple bends dangerously close to place a tip in the juggler's hat. A skateboarder loses his skateboard and you are lead to believe the young man is about to be decapitated but in the very next scene you see him walking away oblivious - until the errant skateboard hits him and knocks him over the boardwalk railing to his death. Earlier in the episode a college student is killed when some frat boys playing with a canister of full of some unstable gas, lose control of it and the canister propels like a missile, impaling the clueless young man. He is later shown sitting on a campus bench where he sits dazed and confused until one of the reapers leads him away. Each reaping is set up like some intricate Rube Goldberg contraption and part of the fun of the show is seeing how the unsuspecting reapee buys it. I think one of my favorite episodes featured Blair Underwood as a yoga instructor who Mandy Patikin becomes fond of - a student of - before realizing he is the person he has come to reap. There is a melancholy in the show's unsentimental sentimentality appeals to me. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the couple of shows I saw were a bit...disturbing. A lot of aductions, desmemberings, kidnappings and torturing and rapes. It seemed to deal with the sickest of the sick, and women were often the victims. Made me a bit queasy.... > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Bosco Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks. I knew the name, I just couldn't think of it. I liked it ok when I saw it. > > --- On Tue, 6/10/08, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Dead Like Me on HDNET > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 7:47 PM > > Bosco, that show was "Criminal Minds". The ladies here must be asleep, not to know a Shemar show... > > Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: He was out of the Dead Like Me Movie because of other commitments, a network crime show who's name escapes me. If the series gets a green light for rebirth, he is rumored to be returning. he's off the network crime show so it's seems at least plausible that they may bring it back > > B > > --- On Tue, 6/10/08, Tracey de Morsella &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED] aladvantage. com&gt; wrote: > > From: Tracey de Morsella &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED] aladvantage. com&gt; > > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Dead Like Me on HDNET > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com > > Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 10:09 AM > > What is up with him and his imploding or disappearing on shows and plays. > > He is a great talent, but he struggles to stick with stuff. I can think of > > 3 or 4 shows that happened with and I remember reading that it happened with > > a few plays as well > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogro ups.com] On > > Behalf Of Bosco Bosco > > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:31 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com > > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Dead Like Me on HDNET > > I believe Mandy Patikin will be absent but other than that, we get everyone > > back. > > B > > --- On Tue, 6/10/08, ravenadal &amp;lt;ravenadal@ yahoo. com&amp;gt; wrote: > > From: ravenadal &amp;lt;ravenadal@ yahoo. com&amp;gt; > > Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Dead Like Me on HDNET > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com > > Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 6:26 AM > > Will the entire cast be in the movie? I am particularly fond of > > Jasmine Guy's performance as the perpetually sour meter maid. > > ~rave! > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, Bosco Bosco &amp;lt;ironpigs3@ . ..&amp;gt; > > wrote: > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; It's a direct to DVD release due next month I think. I heard Ellen > > Muth was saying there is a possibility of a series return. > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; I loved this and Wonder Falls. > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; B > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; --- On Mon, 6/9/08, Tracey de Morsella &amp;lt;tdlists@ ... &amp;gt; wrote: > > &amp;gt; From: Tracey de Morsella &amp;lt;tdlists@ ... &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Dead Like Me on HDNET > > &amp;gt; To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com > > &amp;gt; Date: Monday, June 9, 2008, 11:27 PM > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; I think a movie is coming out soon > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; -----Original Message----- > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogro > > ups.com] On > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; Behalf Of ravenadal > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:47 PM > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; Subject: [scifinoir2] Dead Like Me on HDNET > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; I just finished watching an episode of "Dead Like Me" on HDNET. Man, > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; I love this show! > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; ~rave! > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; > > &amp;gt; Yahoo! Groups Links > > &amp;gt; > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
