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Pushing Daisies: the sweetest show about death was denied the fairytale ending it deserved
This delightful and ghoulish show about a pie maker who brings his childhood sweetheart back to life was cancelled before its time
Good Time is streaming on 7Plus and Amazon Prime Video. For more recommendations of what to stream in Australia, click hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastFairytales are full of horrors, as well as happiness. Too often we remember the happily ever afters and not how we got there: the beautiful woman who eludes a hitman sent by her stepmother; the girl swallowed by a wolf; the chamber full of dead women.
Corpses abound in Pushing Daisies, but this fairytale TV show, as vivid as a picture book, also has plenty of heart and warmth. It tells the story of Ned (Lee Pace), a pie maker who can bring people back to life. He resurrects his murdered childhood sweetheart, Chuck (Anna Friel), and they fall in love – so far, so happily ever after. But once Ned has resurrected someone, he can’t touch them again or they will die – this time for good – so the two lovers are destined to moon over each other, sleep in separate beds and kiss through plastic wrap, never feeling each other’s touch. They must conceal their big secret: he makes the dead live and she is the living dead.
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