Creative, artistic and wholly entertaining

Pushing Daisies is one of the greatest TV shows ever. Unfortunately, it came out during a time when TV was only starting to open up to new creative narratives that now have become mainstream. The set design and artistry are a wonder to behold. The music and acting are all brilliant and it is simply the most unique TV show ever on mainstream TV.

I love this show! The premise is incredibly original. It is a fairy tale and detective story combined with a sweet love story between two people who find very creative ways to show affection to each other. The visuals are genius and remind me of a Tim Burton movie. The sets, props, and costumes are richly and beautifully colored and are a creative combination of the modern and the retro. The dialogue is incredibly witty and fast paced. The casting is spot on. Chi McBride as PI Emerson Cod gets all the great lines and is simply a scene stealer. Kristen Chenoweth is adorable as Olive. Lee Pace as Ned and Anna Friel as Charlotte ("Chuck") touchingly play a couple who can, well, never touch! This show may not be for everyone but it is definitely original!

The overall story is EXCELLENT. The unique idea of life and death and how one touch from Ned can bring someone back to life for only one minute or someone else dies, is wonderful! The fact that if he touches you again then you are DEAD FOREVER is frustrating for Ned and Chuck. This keeps their childlike romance alive in a sweeping romantic whirlwind. The OUTSTANDING storyboard/comics editing and STORYTELLING NARRATION gives this show a UNIQUE SENSE of FUN and PLAYFULNESS. Krysten Chenoweth steals the show.

Funny, wacky/odd, colorful, touching, unpredictable. Incredible cast. Not like any TV show ever made. Too unique for the mainstream TV viewing tastes who tend toward warmed over genres.

I had never heard of this show and now watching it on Prime I am surprised how few reviews this has. What a marvelously written gem.

It was a wonder to see this available. Pushing Daisies is one of the most unique and charming shows ever made. Its setting is so quirky. It's... retro-fantasy? Suburban storybook? I dunno what you'd call it, but it follows in the vein of Edward Scissorhands or Matilda (or even Harry Potter, a bit) in creating a strangely anachronistic, timeless world and infusing it with weirdness and its own unique style that blurs the line between magical and mundane.

Ned is a character with the ability to bring things he touches back to life - and he uses it to make pies. The fantastic made mundane. But the mundane is also made fantastic in every scene, every setpiece, every quirky character.

This show has so much personality and heart and is so weird and inventive. It's not a shock it got cancelled so quickly for that reason - and for the fact that it's heartbreakingly sad, for reasons that should be apparent based on its synopsis. That makes it hard to watch at times, but it's just so sweet and fresh that it's so worth it.

If you like Edward Scissorhands, Matilda, Dead Like Me, Pan's Labyrinth, or the Shape of Water, you should definitely give this one of a kind masterpiece a try.

Beautiful cinematography and wonderfully quirky and empathetic characters make this series one of the best things ever to happen to television.