Best TV pilot I've seen this year, maybe in several years...
Pushing Daisies. Created by Dead Like Me creator Bryan Fuller, it has the quirkiness of that show, combined with bright visuals and storytelling/narration that both remind me a bit of Edward Scissorhands.
Ned finds out he has a gift, and through his life works out its laws (but not the reason behind it). If he touches someone or something that's dead, they come back to life. But if he touches them a second time, they die and permanently. AND... if he touches them and lets them live for more than a minute, someone else dies.
He's gone into a surreptitious business with a private eye, setting his watch, reviving murder victims with his touch, finding out what he can, touching them again within a minute, and then solving the crime. But when the woman who was his first and only kiss at age eight is murdered, he touches her to find out who killed her, and then cannot bear to touch her the second time.
And of course, they find that they love each other still, but he can never touch her again, lest she die.
It also makes me want to catch up on everything Bryan Fuller, including the short-lived series that several of my friends have loved, The Wonderfalls.
Ned finds out he has a gift, and through his life works out its laws (but not the reason behind it). If he touches someone or something that's dead, they come back to life. But if he touches them a second time, they die and permanently. AND... if he touches them and lets them live for more than a minute, someone else dies.
He's gone into a surreptitious business with a private eye, setting his watch, reviving murder victims with his touch, finding out what he can, touching them again within a minute, and then solving the crime. But when the woman who was his first and only kiss at age eight is murdered, he touches her to find out who killed her, and then cannot bear to touch her the second time.
And of course, they find that they love each other still, but he can never touch her again, lest she die.
It also makes me want to catch up on everything Bryan Fuller, including the short-lived series that several of my friends have loved, The Wonderfalls.