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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0027616923509
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Running Time: 702 minutes
Sales Rank: 2260
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 2003
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Proving that 'reapers are anything but grim company' (Cleveland Plain Dealer), this 'deliciously dark comedy about the afterlife' (Newsday) returns for 'a second season as strong as its first' (Philadelphia Daily News). Thanks to breakout star Ellen Muth's prickly charm, Dead Like Me has 'an amusingly odd and touching energy all its own' (Detroit News and Free Press). After more than a year as a grim reaper, George (Muth) has realized that being a teenager in the afterlife is as complex as in real life. There are still unrequited crushes, agonizing dilemmas and the occasional bad attitude. Along with her kooky 'co-reapers' Mason, Daisy, Roxy and Rube, George struggles to collect souls while managing her own awkward development…into an adult reaper!Disc One'Send in the Clown,' 'The Ledger,' 'Ghost Story,' 'The Shallow End'Disc Two'Hurry,' 'In Escrow,' 'Rites of Passage,' 'The Escape Artist'Disc Three'Be Still My Heart,' 'Death Defying,' 'Ashes to Ashes,' 'Forget Me Not' Disc Four'Last Call,' 'Always,' 'Haunted,' Bonus Material
Amazon.com:
In the second season of Showtime's Dead Like Me, teen grim reaper George (Ellen Muth) returns just as she left the first--dead. (Technically, undead.) That isn't about to change, but some things will. In season premiere 'Send in the Clown,' she'll get a promotion at the Happy Time temp agency (a dead ringer for Office Space’s soul-sucking cubicle maze). Meanwhile, Roxy (Jasmine Guy), a tough-talking fellow reaper, will make the move from meter maid to police officer. After all, even reapers have to eat.
There are other changes. George's parents, Joy (Cynthia Stevenson) and Clancy (Greg Kean), finally throw in the towel on their foundering marriage. The other reapers experience their share of good and bad luck. Sweet, if narcissistic Daisy (Laura Harris) finds religion, larceny, and love (in that order), while bad boy Brit Mason (Callum Blue) gives up the bottle only to take it up again and no-nonsense reaper boss Rube (Mandy Patinkin) spends most of the season trying to track down someone from his mortal past.
There were 15 episodes in the second season. Guest stars include Michael Des Barres as a washed-up rocker ('In Escrow'), Barbara Barrie as George's free-spirited grandmother ('Rites of Passage,' 'The Escape Artist'), and Eric McCormack as a cocky TV producer who falls for Daisy (three episodes, starting with 'Death Defying'). Unfortunately, 2004 wouldn't turn out to be creator Bryan Fuller's lucky year. Despite fan devotion, critical praise, and Emmy nominations, both of his distinctively quirky dark comedies, Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me, would not be renewed--but at least the latter made it to the end of the year. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Sad this show died
This will be one of the few shows I actually miss. Life will be a little more dull without this to look forward to. Just one of the best.
Rating:  - One of the Best
this was one of the best shows i've ever watched. i'm definately ready for the movie next year
Rating: - Dead Like Me is a gem in the rough
I watched this on Netflix, however, it was so awesome that I had to order both seasons. You will not find another series this quirky or fabulous any time soon, unfortunately!
Rating: - Great!
This was a really great show and it's a horrible shame that it only lasted the two seasons. Probably way too smart for the average viewer. It was smart, sharp and funny and yet thought-provoking. Well worth the watch-time.
Rating: - Dead? Say it isn't so!
I missed this show when it was originally aired; I only managed to see a couple of episodes when it was on Sci-Fi. Once viewed, I was hooked--and very disappointed not to see the other episodes. I even thought about breaking down and subscribing to Showtime so I could catch the new episodes. By this time, of course, it had actually been cancelled for more than a year, so I ordered both seasons on Amazon. I was so glad that I had done so! In a time of a hectic and stressful work life, and with very little of interest on tv, this captured my imagination and had me roaring. The character development was wonderful. I loved them all, especially George's younger sister with her toilet seat fetish/monument. I loved the way the main character only became truly introspective and learned who her family were, and she was (had been), after the fact. Each character had their times to shine, each was an individual. I miss them.
I loaned this series to a friend, a man in his very early sixties. He had been rather depressed at losses and impending losses of people for whom he cared. My husband thought a few videos might cheer him up (we all appreciate a rather dark sense of humor), so he loaned this set to him. Our friend began watching and laughed hard--he ended up watching them over two days time--he then told my husband to tell me to "hurry up and get season three." Alas, alack, there is no season three. So we all watched them over again--yes, they're that good.
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