Pushing Daisies: Corpsicle
By fred | December 13, 2007
(S01E09) After watching this episode of Pushing Daisies, I feel sadness filling in my heart, as I realize this was the last one I’ll get to see for quite a long time. A long and still undetermined amount of time to go without any new sweet pies. Because of the strike, and given how things really don’t look like they’re going to get any better soon, sadly, this episode might very well be the season finale, and God knows when we’ll get to see the pie maker and his dead girl again.
And oddly enough, this episode was too filled was sadness, though for different reasons. Despite an opening scene highly colorful and filled with joy and laughs, it wasn’t long until the mood changed. Remember the cliffhanger we were left on, last week, after the pie maker simply confessed to Chuck ? Were you, too, dying to see how she’d react to it ? Because I sure as Hell was.
I was, and as such I have to admit that I find myself a little disappointed by the lack of answers we were given this week. Now while I fully understand that for the magic to stay intact, we need not to see anyone ever screaming, yelling and slamming doors, I really wanted to see Ned explaining to Chuck the ways that had him inadvertently, unwillingly and at the time unknowingly killed her dad.
Just like I wanted to see how Chuck, the always so lovely and nice Chuck would react to the news. But instead, we got sent a little after, when the pie maker was calling for her in the middle of the night, under the snowing stars. And we heard of what happened, we knew Olive heard it all, the loud words and the doors slamming, she did, but we did not. And while I know why this probably was done that way, I can’t help myself but wishing we had the opportunity to see, even a little of it. If only, because this could have revealed a little more about Chuck, as it put her in a very new light.
But we did not, and I shall get over it. What we had, was what came after. We’ve seen Chuck hiding, thinking, telling the entire truth to a non-believing Olive, giving away a little of her hair and considering telling to truth to a stranger who would, likely, believe her, thinking some more, hating Ned for a little while, and eventually realizing she only wanted to share her secret with one, and only one person in the world. The pie maker.
It was all mostly predictable, yet nicely done and, as one can expect on this show, highly enjoyable. Up to the last moment, in the cemetery, when Chuck asked our newly re-found sweetheart to bring her dad back, even if only for a minute, and - thanks to Emerson - the pie maker refused. That was indeed the best thing to do, because she would not have had enough of one minute with him, she would have wanted more, and seeing Ned sending her father back to the dead would have been a lot more devastating, without a doubt.
That and, also, her father might have been looking nothing like she remembered him. You know, after spending all those years locked up in that coffin, decomposing.
The case this week reflecting the darker tone of the episode, if not in his subject in the way the team operated. For starter, obviously one member was missing, although I’m sure Emerson did not miss the “intrusion” of dead girl in his investigation. But they were only two, and one of them was depressed, and unable to focus in the case, as his mind and thoughts were out for Chuck.
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