But of course.
I've had my eye on the show Pushing Daisies since the first teasers on ABC prior to its pilot episode. As I've been very much not in tune with prime time telly for quite some time now, I never got around to watching a single episode until a couple weeks ago. As suspected, I absolutely adored it.
And then a couple days later, I read the news.
Cancelled.
COME ON!!! Of course, I never think to DVR these things so that I could have been paying attention to it all along, but perhaps it's for the best. I won't have quite the sting as if I'd been glued to it week after week. Kind of like Mad Men (for clarification: NOT cancelled), which I also had my eye on since before the first episode, watched and loved the first episode, and then *thought* I DVR'd it all this time, but turns out, no dice. I was intrigued by its retro-ness and because I majored in advertising. I refuse to watch that one now until I get some Netflix catch-up. Now I have to get Daisies in my queue.
I'm sure there are things that I'm missing from only having really seen an episode-and-a half, so maybe there are reasons I could see for it getting bounced, but in my world, I doubt it. Because I want that show to BE my world. I want to live on the sets. The amazingly bold, bright, colorful, quirky, mystical, carnival nature of the show is a draw to me even if I had the stinking thing on mute the whole time. I just love to look at it. I want to live there. Did I already say that? I want it. It's funnnnn.
Honestly, the first two things that clicked with me, and in like the first five seconds of watching were: 1) the wonderful fairytale-like narration (I do love narration. Just like in my beloved Arrested Development, which oddly had the same fate -- hmmm...), and b) the colors! The fact that not only did the set and costume designers have to come up with great props and furniture and wardrobes to fit the elaborate situations, but it's completely color coordinated! The palates run through the veins of almost every individual scene... the floors, curtains, walls, and especially the clothing... everything matches!! Genius. I want them to come decorate my home and pick out things for me to wear every morning.
Top it all off with the main character's shop being called The Pie Hole... Well, that just makes me giggle.
The sucky part is that apparently, the creators are going to have the loose ends tied up not in a final episode, but in the comic book based on the storyline. BOO. There are online petitions and ways to contact the studios in an attempt to save it, but given the track record of other beloved show concepts that got the axe, there's usually not much that can be done, especially with the economy. If the show ain't selling ad space and getting the number of viewers to make those ad placements worth the sponsor's while, well, c'est la vie. Just another one I'll perhaps add to the DVD collection.
In other TV news... Did we all watch Rudolph tonight??? YAY!
