Monthly Archives: June 2011

Summer Rewatch: Pushing Daisies, “Pigeon”

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Les Chappell

By the time you reach the fourth episode of a television show, it’s a safe bet that you’ll have finally decided whether or not that show is for you. If you weren’t turned off by the pilot all together, or … Continue reading →

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Summer Rewatch: Pushing Daisies, “The Fun in Funeral”

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Les Chappell

Ned’s gift has consequences. He’s known this since the very first day he used it, and subsequently cost both himself and his childhood sweetheart a parent each. We’ve known it since the first five minutes of the pilot episode, as … Continue reading →

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Recap/Review: The Killing, “Orpheus Descending”

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Les Chappell

After last week’s post, where I talked about AMC’s semi-surprising decision to renew its serial murder murder mystery The Killing, I promised myself that I was going to watch the finale episode both to a) see whether or not it … Continue reading →

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Summer Rewatch: Pushing Daisies, “Dummy”

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Les Chappell

As I’m sure you gathered from last week’s verbose declaration of love disguised as a review, I felt that Pushing Daisies struck an undeniable cord in its pilot episode. It was impressive from a visual and storytelling perspective, managed to … Continue reading →

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Random Analysis: AMC Renews The Killing For Season 2

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Les Chappell

I haven’t talked about AMC’s The Killing on this blog in quite some time, for a variety of reasons – the most obvious of those being that I just stopped watching it less than halfway through its run. As I … Continue reading →

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Summer Rewatch: Pushing Daisies, “Pie-lette”

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Les Chappell

An orchestral flourish begins, and we come up through gnarled roots into an improbably large field of bright yellow flowers, stretching under clear blue skies in a scene that seems to define spring. A golden retriever gallops through the flowers, … Continue reading →

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Summer Rewatch Announcement: 2011

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Les Chappell

Now that we’ve gotten the broad swath of shows I’ll be catching up on over the summer out of the way, it’s time for something I mentioned in passing to in that last post: selecting the show I’ll be doing … Continue reading →

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