Product Description
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Nominated for 12 Emmy® Awards its first season, the visually
stunning Pu shing Daisies, from Bryan Fuller (Heroes) and Barry
Sonnenfeld (Men in Black), is back for another season of
unprecedented romance, crime procedure and high-concept fantasy.
This forensic fairytale follows Ned (Lee Pace), a young man with
a very special gift. As a boy, Ned found he could bring the dead
briefly to life with just one touch. Now a pie maker, Ned puts
his ability to good use, not only touching dead fruit and making
it ripe with everlasting flavor, but working with a private
investigator to crack murder cases by raising the dead and having
them name their killers. The tale gets complicated when Ned
brings his childhood sweetheart, Chuck (Anna Friel), back from
the dead and keeps her alive. Life would be perfect for Ned and
Chuck, except for one cruel twist: If he touches her again,
she'll go back to being dead, this time for good. Kristin
Chenoweth, Chi McBride, Ellen Greene and Swoosie Kurtz also star.
Bonus Content:
Easy as Pie featurette - Presented as an on-screen Pop-Up book,
narrated by Jim Dale, “Easy as Pie” will feature photos and
supplementary material, while Jims narration will inform us with
all manner of behind-the-scenes Tid-bits!
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The second season of Pushing Daisies became, unfortunately, its
last--abruptly wrapping one of the most beautiful and unusual
love stories ever told on TV. Farewell to Ned (Lee Pace), the
handsome piemaker who can restore the dead with one touch (and
un-restore them with another, or else end another life in
exchange). Farewell to Chuck (Anna Friel), his true love, brought
back to life by Ned and therefore forever untouchable by him
again. Farewell to Olive (Kristin Chenoweth), the pixie who pines
for our piemaker, and also to Emerson (Chi McBride), the P.I. who
partners with Ned (and Chuck and Olive) to solve murders with
inside information from the briefly revived. But what a memorable
sendoff this second season is: starting with bees gone wild and a
shirtless Ned, paying homage to Pete's Dragon in one
lighthouse-centric episode, and ending with some measure of
closure that comes in a 13th-episode, "we know we're canceled"
rush. Like that finale, the season is not always as fully
realized as its rich fairytale world, yet it still achieves
genuine joy and longing. In many ways, it is a season of
separation, with Olive off to a nunnery and Chuck out of Ned's
apartment (for a little while, at least). Olive and Ned get to
explore their potential romance, while Chuck gets some unexpected
family time. This set contains several featurettes, most notably
a celebration of the show's music (a character all its own) and
series creator Bryan Fuller, who also brought us Dead Like Me,
Wonderfalls, and some of Heroes' best episodes. ("I never know
what he's going to do, and I love that," says Chenoweth.) There's
also a piece on what it takes to create the colorful corpses Ned
brings to life as well as the technical challenge of creating a
computer-generated rhino, but the real magic of this show comes
from the heart. --Stephanie Reid-Simons