Review Time: Dead Like Me Season One

While I have been watching a lot of Roswell recently, I have been intermittently been watching this likeable little series alongside it.

Dead Like Me is the story of George Lass, a young eighteen year-old virgin whose outlook on life is about as disaffected and cynical as it can possibly get. Her mother is a negative control freak, her father is having an affair, and her little sister, Reggie, is a little strange.

Then, as if to show that the universe has a sense of humour, George is killed rather spectacularly by a toilet seat that falls from the Russian Mir Spacestation. That's when things get really weird.

George discovers that she has been chosen to become a Reaper, a collector of souls - to help the dead pass on to the next plane of existence. Once she has reaped an unstated number of souls, she will then be able to pass on herself.

But she isn't a ghost, that wouldn't be interesting television after all - no, she has a living body (of sorts) and is undead. She has an illusionary alter-ego that people see instead of her true face.

Dead Like Me is pure gold. It is a slick production, simply presented and beautifully acted. It has a morbidly funny sense of humour and is really a show about life as seen from the place of someone who is dead. It never preaches, but makes some profound observations about life and the universe. All the while delivered in a beautifully dead-pan humour. From the collapse of George's family to the eventual growth of George as a Reaper - this show is just brilliant.

Very rarely does a show manage to make me laugh out loud when watching it on my own - but Dead Like Me manages to do so every episode!

So do yourself a favour - check it out! Best yet, the series is self-contained. There is a second season, and I"m keen to see it, but the first season manages to close while leaving things open for potentially more stories.

Also- keep an eye out for Jewel "Kaylee" Saite as a death groupie goth girl! :D

Love and Huggles

Conan

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