Comments on: No Brian Fuller? No Mandy Patinkin? No Dead Like Me!

By: janie

janie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:03:17 +0000

I’ve not read all the comments as I’m about to watch the film, I only just finished the series’s so I am a late comer to it. Have to say I love it though. I think it’s fantastically written and acted. Any new comers will be welcome in my book as it’s so well written you learn to love them. I wish they did a third and fourth series so much, as there is soooooooooooooooooooooo much scope, so much they more they can do with it.

By: Cris

Cris — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:36:44 +0000

Just watched the series and movie on Netflix. The series was great. Finished it in a week. The movie was okay. I don’t think the lack of Mandy Patinkin hurt all that much, but the story was a little disappointing. I liked that it sort of wrapped up things for Reggie, but I didn’t like that George was seperate from the rest of the reapers for the whole thing. Even though the episodes were shorter, it felt like they had more going on in them than this movie did.

The biggest downfall was the replacement of the actress for Daisy. I didn’t particularly care for Daisy much in the series, but Laura Harris played the part a thousand times better than Sarah Wynter. (As J correctly pointed out above, Laura is the original, Sarah is the replacement.) I saw someone mention it might have been the fault of the writing and not the actress, but if you’d seen other things Sarah Wynter has been in, you’d know that’s pretty on par for her performances. She had parts that had potential on The Dead Zone and 24, but she butchered them by being hollow and dull like she was in this role. There was no complexity to her portrayal of the character. Why she keeps getting cast in anything is a mystery.

Co-incidentally, Sarah and Laura played sisters on 24. (I guess casting directors think they look alike.) I have to say, Laura’s performance was much better than Sarah’s in that show as well, even though I didn’t like Laura’s character, and in spite of the acting, I did like Sarah’s.

By: J

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:41:46 +0000

Um, just a head’s up, but the original Daisy is played by Laura Harris. The movie Daisy was played by Sarah Wynter. The original article has confused quite a few posters into praising Sarah and bashing some unknown actress for not being like Sarah, when they really mean Laura.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:56:06 +0000

Very sad to me that the show ended so quickly. The movie was horrible. The characters were nothing like themselves. I want the series back

By: Avril

Avril — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:49:34 +0000

I felt like the dialogue and narrative took a huge nosedive after Bryan Fuller left. The movie was alright, but I was left still feeling the loss of what it once was and could have been. Continuity was a big miss.

By: barbara

barbara — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:50:48 +0000

Sarah was great! I enjoyed her more than Rebecca. I loved the episode when George had to make the elderly woman realize she was dead because Sarah and that elderly woman starred in the movie “The Faculty” together. They were reunited for a moment.

I agree with Ronni about the Daisy replacement in the movie. I was wondering who the hell she was! And I missed Rube and his “no-nonsense” attitude so much! I missed the Post-Its!! Even the reapers did not like the new boss they had.

By: Ronni

Ronni — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:15:36 +0000

I loved the 1st and 2nd season. The chemistry between the characters and the world in which it was set. The movie was okay. Losing Rube was a tragedy and really hurt any chances of bringing the series back. But the actress they got to replace Daisy was terrible!! She almost ruined the entire movie for me! She didn’t remotely catch the vitality and charm of Daisy, as obnoxious as Daisy could be. I would truly love to see them bring Dead Like Me back to the small screen…but I might reconsider if they used the actress that played Daisy on the dvd movie! I mean really people…who cast that woman and what kind of drugs were they on?!

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By: Nuke

Nuke — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:38:01 +0000

Was home with a sports injury and went through two seasons of Dead like Me over the past week. Amazingly good show and I bonded with each character. They all developed throughout but did not lose the quirky blemishes and other character flaws that made them real. Doubt if I will see the movie. They can make good movies of prematurely dead series. Think of Serenity and Firefly.

Also how can an 18 year old stay frozen at that age without having to change Ellen Muth. The show burned bright and will be missed.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:15:46 +0000

I recently became enthralled by the show thanks to Netflix, and I’ve been watching the episodes like a junky. I love love love the show.
But a lot of sad things have happened…
At the 3rd or 4th episode Georgia started wearing shirts that revealed her bony arms, shoulders and midriff and it was shockingly unappealing. It was SO SAD to see such a beautiful unique actress start starving herself! It just got worse and worse through the two seasons, and the mistake was compounded when the actress started having her lips pumped full of stuff.
But that is the majority of my gripe with the show. I absolutely LOVED all the characters (except the bratty child characters.) Daisy and Betty were the absolute greatest.
The movie? EVERYONE looks terrible. So sad. They mostly all look old and tired and have bad hair. Mason’s whimsical little spikey faux hawk is nothing but mussy and short. His face is carrying extra puffiness weight that buries his sculpted pinched features. Not to mention the beer gut he now has. I miss Daisy. The new Daisy is broken down and sad. None of the characters have the same sparkle. Desmond does well with what he has to work with.
They break the rules from the show that gave us the fun of the framework of premiss…
I watched it all the way through… sort of like Methodone.
Just saying.