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Sean and Stefan say...

We were watching our new favorite show Pushing Daisies and couldn't hold back the laughter over this great homage to Tippi Hedron and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds from Molly Shannon! Enjoy!

Sean and Stefan say...

As the television season has gone on your McFreeds have pruned most of our TV watching down to mainly healthy doses of Ugly Betty (of course!), Dancing With The Stars, Samantha Who?, and DVR tapings of BBC America's Torchwood (a Sean guilty pleasure) and Grey's Anatomy (when in the mood). But the one show that really has us excited is Pushing Daisies - Wednesdays at 8pm EST!!

Someone on a website said one time about the show, that they would love to hold hands and skip across a field of flowers with this show. We couldn't say it any better!!!

In case you haven't seen it, Pushing Daisies is a quixotic embellishment of a show that tells the tale of Ned, The Pie Maker, who has the power to bring the dead back to life.  Unfortunately, if anything dead that he has touched must be retouched within 1 minute or something else will die in its stead of an equal value. He learned this lesson when he saved his own mother from death by anurism only to have his childhood friend Chuck's father die instantly - causing Chuck to move away. Chuck was a little girl who he had his first kiss. After a few years of being alone and making pies, Ned came across private detective Emerson Cod. Emerson subsequently learns of Ned's "talent' and they employ it in earning rewards for solving crimes across the city.  One day they stumble across the body of his childhood crush Chuck while trying to solve her murder on a cruise ship to Tahiti!  They rekindle their love for each other only to the detriment of the funeral home director. And that ladies and gentleman is where the best show about love delayed began!

As the show has continued on we have learned that it is best watched cuddling together on the couch with big smiles on our faces. It is so inventive and fun to watch. The chemistry between Lee Pace as Ned and Anna Friel as Chuck is captivating. And Chi McBride's act as Emerson, breaks up the gooeiness of the show yet punctuates it with a giggle. The additional nuttiness of the narrator, Kristen Chenoweth as Olive - waitress at Ned's restaurant The Pie Hole, and Chuck's aunts played by Broadway veterans Swoozie Kurtz and Ellen Greene make this an appointment show weekly for us!

The thing that best makes this show fun is how inventive they make the relationship between Ned and Chuck work. It truly is a statement about romance and abstinence really. They find so many ways to hold hands and kiss without actually touching it is just really sweet. The "Saranwrap Kiss" itself is truly on our list as one of the most romatic visuals ever (see below)!  Some might find it sickening but to us it is just a fun trip down the yellow brick road I guess.

But the romance may have hooked us, but what keeps us is the show's way of keeping us interested. It has the positive vibes Stefan craves. They always seem to pick large or unknown words in their dialogue that Sean loves! They thrown in an interesting yet easy mystery that always leads to a farce-like situation. They have a musical element at times which punctuates but doesn't over do the sweetness. And they manage to get some naughty bits in at the 8pm hour!

So if you haven't watched - START!  With the writer's strike, reruns aren't far away!  If you missed anything or wanted to know anything about this show check out this great website: The Pie Maker!