Pushing Daisies: Dim Sum Lose Some
By fred | October 30, 2008
(S02E05) Pushing Daisies might be all unique and unlike any other show on television in many ways, that doesn’t mean it does nothing like all the others. For instance, while we have our weekly “case of the week” that must be investigated by Emerson Cod and his team, each episode also includes more personal items of the private lives of every one of the characters of the show.
In the past weeks we had the occasion to dive into Olive first, and then Emerson’s past, and so after that little pause it can only appear as normal to bring the focus back on no other than our very own pie maker.
Weeks ago, a secret only us were made aware of was revealed. Someone visited the pit hole, someone nobody noticed and whose identity was never uncovered : Ned’s dad. We do not know why he decided to show up at his son’s doorstep after all this time, nor do we know what his motives are. The guy did left young Ned behind when he was only a little child, and merely send him a card, one time, letting him know he had moved — moved on to a new life, with a new family. An habit of his, apparently.
As a result, Ned always knew all those years where his father lived, but he never cared to go there. Why would he? But when Dwight, an old friend if his dad Ned had never heard about, showed up, as well, to the pie hole and was looking for his father, Ned eventually came clean and told Chuck he knew where he might be. He didn’t want nothing to do with it, understandably, and it’s not even sure Chuck bothered to get the address to Dwight, but she did brought Olive along and both went to see the mysterious man.
He wasn’t there, but the twins were, Ned’s half-brothers. I am not really sure how I feel about this, because we already have a large cast, and if it’s not always easy to fit in the aunts in every week’s story, adding yet more family members – as we’re all waiting for Little Gum’Shoe to show up – might not be the best. On the other hand, they don’t have to stay around for too long, and they’ll surely brought some light on Ned’s father’s motivations for abandoning young Ned without looking back.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the street, with a gun on the passenger seat, is Dwight. Something tells me he’s not really an old friend, and when Ned and his father meet again, bullets might fly and maybe, just maybe, Ned might not even get to talk to his father until after he’ll be dead.
About the investigation, it was as colorful and inventive as you’d expect things to be on a Pushing Daisies episode, with an added twist of Ocean’s 11 or something for the occasion. The streets outside of Emerson’s office, or the restaurant, couldn’t have looked any more like a television set, but I guess somehow, for Pushing Daisies, it works.
The mystery wasn’t all that hard to crack, especially when people conveniently come to tell you all the secrets you need to know, or walk in at the right time with what it takes to uncover the truth. But then again, it that what really matters here, or are we just please to see the whole gang working together, and undercover, to solve it all ? Cowboy Ned was pretty hilarious, and while I don’t think Emerson can ever not be funny, as a duo with the return of dog trainer and click-addict Simone, it’s just a blessing!
One wonderful episode of Pushing Daisies that, hopefully, many tuned in to see while Obama was talking on all the other networks. Because as we speak episode 13 is in production, and that is the very last episode ABC ordered. So I can only hope that ABC will go for a back-nine order, but alas the show might be the worst performer of the entire ABC schedule! Which, also, has me really hoping that said episode 13, should it be the last one ever, doesn’t end with a huge cliffhanger and questions that will never meet their answers…
How did you like your pie the week ? Do you think Ned and his father will ever reconcile ? If so, would that be before or after his death ? Could Ned’s half-brothers be able to bring people back to life as well ? Why would Dwight want to kill Ned’s father ? And of course, does the idea of the show ending soon give you the piss-jitters ?
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