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Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season(TV) (2007)Every not-so-often, along comes a show that’s different. Wonderfully different. Pushing Daisies, TV Guide’s Matt Roush writes, "restores my faith in TV’s ability to amuse, enchant and entertain." It’s the story of Ned, a lonely pie maker whose touch can reanimate the dead. Cool, but there’s a hitch. If Ned touches the person again, the miracle is reversed. If he doesn’t, a bystander goes toes up. What to do? Easy: Team with a private eye, bring murder victims back just long enough to discover whodunit, and collect the rewards. Things go well until Ned’s boyhood sweetie is the next dear departed, and he can’t resist bringing her back for keeps! Dig the wit, style and quirky romance: If you’re not laughing, you may need a visit from Ned. For more about Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season and the Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season Blu-ray release, see Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review published by Ben Williams on September 16, 2008 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5. Directors: Lawrence Trilling, Allan Kroeker, Barry Sonnenfeld, Paul A. Edwards, Tricia Brock, Paul Shapiro Writers: Davey Holmes, Bryan Fuller, Douglas Petrie Starring: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz Narrator: Jim Dale Producer: Davey Holmes » See full cast & crew Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season Blu-ray, Video QualityWarner Brothers brings "Pushing Daisies" to Blu-ray in its original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.78:1 in full 1080p glory utilizing the VC-1 compression codec. As a compliment to the show's decidedly eccentric and quirky story, "Pushing Daisies" is a visually rich and colorful affair. The show makes use of plastic-looking sets and features an almost surrealistic take on the average suburban environment. In a stark contrast to these fake looking city shots, many of the scenes that take place in rural settings feature lush green fields and sweeping vistas of tall grass and beautiful rolling hills. It's all rather cartoon-ish and gives the show an otherworldly feel. In one episode from mid-way through the season, a crop dusting plane crashes into a building across the street from Ned's "Pie Hole" pie restaurant. The special effects used for this sequence are just plain silly and look like some sort of odd combination of claymation and CGI. Of course, this is all on purpose and it just adds to the overall weirdness of the show. With the show's bizarre visual style and extremely rich color palette, high definition really helps to showcase the intricate detail that has gone in to creating the world of "Pushing Daisies." Colors are vivid and intentionally over-saturated. Contrast is a little on the weak side, but I think it is intentional and gives the show a more illustrated look. Detail is exceptional throughout the show with skin and fabric details exceptionally well rendered. As a matter of fact, this Blu-ray actually shows some of the production's weaknesses in that some of the show's CGI backgrounds are easily identifiable and stand out against live action elements in the foreground. As strange as this show can be, it wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that this was entirely intentional and was intended to add to the kooky visual style that the show has adopted. All in all, "Pushing Daisies" looks fabulous on Blu-ray. Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season Blu-ray, Audio QualityBoy, has Warner dropped the ball with "Pushing Daisies." In every press release or advertisement that has been released for this set, Warner has stated that a Dolby TrueHD audio track would be included. To make matters worse, Dolby TrueHD is even listed on the back of the packaging of the retail version of this Blu-ray release. There's even a TrueHD logo! Unfortunately, there is no TrueHD track on this disc. In addition, when selecting your audio track from the setup menu, all that is listed is "english" - - as though this set defaults to TrueHD. Viewers will have to activate the audio menu of their BD player to know for sure what they are getting. Bearing that in mind, I'm not sure if what we have with "Pushing Daisies" is an authoring error, a misprint or some other screwup. I'm sure it wasn't an intentional mistake on Warner's part, but I can't imagine plenty of buyers not being disappointed by this oversight. I've asked Warner to get to the bottom of this issue and I'll update this review with their response when they figure out what has taken place. In the mean time, the Dolby Digital track included with this release is actually quite good. This is a dialogue heavy show, with an abundance of multi-channel music presented in all five speakers. It's a nice track and does a nice job of conveying the drama and emotion of the show. It will be an interesting experiment, if Warner should offer a corrected TrueHD version of this set, to see how this Dolby Digital track compares to TrueHD. Stay tuned... Pushing Daisies: Other Seasons
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