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Dead Like Me: Season 1, Episode 1Pilot (27 Jun. 2003)Georgia 'George' Lass is an emotionally lost, 18-year-old slacker who's life changes (or ends) when she is killed by a toilet seat that falls from the sky after being separated from the ... See full summary » Director:Scott WinantWriter:Bryan Fuller |
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Georgia 'George' Lass is an emotionally lost, 18-year-old slacker who's life changes (or ends) when she is killed by a toilet seat that falls from the sky after being separated from the orbiting Mir space station which hurtles to Earth. Immediately, she discovers that the afterlife does indeed exist, where she has been assigned a job as a 'Grim Reaper.' It's her job to reap the souls from the living and guide them to their eternal reward. Besides coping with her new job, she must learn to deal with being young and starting out and of course, being dead... Written by Anonymous
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George: [Voice over] Those are the last words my mother will ever say to me.
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George's wish that she could just "wish it into the corn field" is a reference to Jerome Bixby's short story, "It's a Good Life," in which a little boy with god-like powers whisks an entire town into an alternate reality, and holds the population in a paralysis of fear. "Wish it into the cornfield" was what his mother pleaded with Anthony to do to creatures, and people, that he had killed. The story was adapted for the original Twilight Zone, with Bill Mumy, and re-imagined for Twilight Zone: The Movie. See more »Goofs
The Mir space station impacted the South Pacific Ocean on March 23, 2001. No debris made landfall. See more »Quotes
Joy: There is going to be a funeral if you don't get your ass out of bed.George: [Voice over] Those are the last words my mother will ever say to me.
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Having watched the series all the way through a couple of times now, I can appreciate the pilot more than I initially did. It effectively sets up the show's concept and introduces us to all the characters in this quirky universe. The cast all excel at making each character unique – the reapers themselves are a hodge-podge of differing backgrounds and attitudes. And George's off-screen narration makes some clever satirical comments about life and death – her opening story about how death came into the world is a delight.
The main flaw of the episode is that it lacks a really likable character. The lead character George is a self-confessed shirker who's lost interest in the world. Her fellow reapers are aloof at best, downright mean at worst. Even her own family is unpleasant to watch. The story isn't funny enough to be a real comedy; it's more of a light-hearted drama with occasional touches of genuine pathos. If you stick around for the series, you'll grow to like these characters – even for some of the very flaws that make them undesirable in this outing. My advice is to watch the pilot with low expectations. Just get to know the characters and the setup and proceed on to the next episodes. If you like a show that's truly different, you'll enjoy this in the long run. And later, when you watch this pilot again, you'll find it was better than you first thought.