i had ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST in this show for the weeks i saw it being hyped prior to its airing. however, in that there's not a lot of quality programming on wednesdays, and i was just NOT feeling WIRED SCIENCE that first night, i "resigned" myself to watching the premiere episode. i LOVED it!!! i felt like i shouldn't, in that looking over one's shoulder to hope no one sees kind of way, and that perhaps i was being falsely lured in because of any lack of true and substantive competition...i mean, we've all had that lured-in-feeling at some point in our lives, although usually at a much younger age, although i'm sure there are plenty of you who might succumb at my age as i have, right? i made a conscious decision to keep my feelings to myself. i would watch the second show, to see if there was any true consistency in its enjoyment quotient, before making hastey descisions that might bring mockery upon the status of my opinion in those areas where my opion seems to be counted; THERE WAS. taking a deep breath at the end of that second show i had to admit, if only to myself, there were so many things to like in both episodes; i really enjoy how the plot is simultaneous light and dark, in both its physical and plot natures; a pie maker who brings the dead back to life.....i mean, the material from that contridiction alone is exploding with possibility, never mind a partner who blackmails you into a mutually-beneficial financial agreement, or a love interest who may forever have to dodge her own personal quasi-celebrity history in the next town over, if not the same town... i like the way the background scenes, and even the clothing, is both comic-like and hipster at the same time, with super bright colors, and super dark shading. i like that chuck calls a fridge the cheesebox. i like the way the characters talk, in sort of run-on solioques, packed with subtle and not so subtle innuendos, metaphors, and puns. i like the flashbacks to childhood, like with the frogs in in biology class. i like the way the mini-weekly plots are packed within the larger plot of PIE-MAKER-WHO-RAISES-THE-DEAD-FOR-PROFIT-BRINGS-CHILDHOOD-SWEETHEART-BACK-TO-LIFE-AND-HOW-LONG-CAN-THIS-POSSIBLY-LAST? i love the way the aunt's eye patch is jeweled.
DUDE, i wicked heart pushing daisies!