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Pushing Daisies deserves its high praise. It's the best new drama of the fall, finding sweet hope in morbid tragedy.
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Pushing Daisies is a delicate, rapturously original little television miracle.
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Pushing Daisies is by far the best new series of the fall season.
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Pushing Daisies is perfect.
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It's a gloriously visual fairy tale full of saturated colors and whimsical stories, the kind of romantic comedy/whodunit that should, by rights, captivate a nation starved for quirkiness and delight.
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Solid gold from top to bottom, the cast is almost an embarrassment of riches.
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The hour balances its caper-cartoon and ghoulish sensibilities with a crisp pace and well-cast leads.
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It's the best-looking pilot of the season--maybe the best new show, period--even though it may not look that good in the future.
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I wouldn't want to miss a word.
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This may be one of the most beautifully crafted and original TV shows ever to get fall consideration on a big network.
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Standing head and shoulders above this fall's other seedlings.
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The lovingly and imaginatively produced pilot has to be the most gorgeous piece of television airing anywhere tonight.
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This Technicolored kaleidoscope fable of life, love and perpetual whimsy restores my faith in TV's ability to amuse, enchant and entertain with endless invention and eye-popping style.
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It's a breath of fresh air even for those of us who find our allergies stimulated by the countless particles of whimsy suspended in its thick atmosphere.
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It's a whimsical, romantically inventive and darkly funny pop-up hour about a man (Lee Pace) whose touch can bring the dead back to life (but also, yikes, vice versa).
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As charming as all that is amid the macabre, Pushing Daisies is a show that only a grown-up can fully enjoy.
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The series, from creators Bryan Fuller and Barry Sonnenfeld, is a masterful mixture of life, romance, optimism and youthful exuberance, all played out under the threat of instant death.
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Pushing Daisies will drive you crazy or make you smile.
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On top of the stars' subtlety and Fuller's verbal wit, Sonnenfeld's pilot direction ladles layers of flashy frosting--theatrical camera angles, emphatic zooms, intensified color and those heavyhanded moments when the narration can't quite straddle the sap line.
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At its best--during several moments of exquisite longing between the adult Ned and Chuck--Pushing Daisies feels so right that it almost redeems all the wrongs of such wretched new series as Cavemen or Carpoolers.
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Pushing Daisies is good, as well as distinctive.
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It’s definitely not the same-old same-old, for which ABC is to be congratulated.
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It is all very beautiful.
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Pushing Daisies captivates with an emotionally resonant story and dazzles with its bright visual imagery. Fans of delightfully daft fairy tales, this one's for you.
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Daisies is something you shouldn't miss, particularly if you're looking for something different on TV.
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All the praise heaped on Pushing Daisies, and every declaration about the dramedy's originality, is merited.
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The story of Ned (Lee Pace), a young man who can bring the dead back to life, is sweetly odd, but also oddly charming.
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With snappy writing, stunning art direction and a great cast, this really is the new show you don't want to miss.
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Despite the fine work of Pace and Friel--who convey tenderness despite the director’s efforts to stamp it out--the sheer quantity of forced whimsy and visual razzle-dazzle can be exhausting.
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Pushing Daisies is fanciful and fun, but sometimes pushes the daisies too hard.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 214 out of 259
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Mixed: 22 out of 259
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Negative: 23 out of 259
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Nov 29, 2012
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Nov 1, 2010
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G.FreshOct 25, 2007