My overall rating of "Dead like me"'s Season 2: 7/10.
I've not read anything by Asimov myself, but the way I've read his "laws of robotics" series described as is: "First he sets out the rules, and then explores the edge-cases and what happens when the rules are broken or flaws in them reveal themselves". In a way, "Dead like me" can be described the same way: we're given the laws of how the world and the reapers' job work, and then explore the various edge-cases and malfunctions. In this episode we see an interesting one: a spirit that doesn't realise it's dead due to dementia. The gang's attempts at explaining her death to her are fun, and George's eventual solution is pretty cool. We also get a little bit more of the worldbuilding by acquainting ourselves with the Natural Causes division, and how Gravelings are (or at least can be?) made. Finally, there are just a great many fun and cool scenes, such as the spelling bee reap.
There are moments that I enjoyed a bit less: Mason's really cringy behaviour towards Ray; Georgia's strange (admittedly half-hearted) impulse to stop Nina's death (Haven't we been over this before? Like, she just seems to forget occasionally how reaping works); and Nina's disappearing without any real lights. Still, a more-than-great episode overall.
I've not read anything by Asimov myself, but the way I've read his "laws of robotics" series described as is: "First he sets out the rules, and then explores the edge-cases and what happens when the rules are broken or flaws in them reveal themselves". In a way, "Dead like me" can be described the same way: we're given the laws of how the world and the reapers' job work, and then explore the various edge-cases and malfunctions. In this episode we see an interesting one: a spirit that doesn't realise it's dead due to dementia. The gang's attempts at explaining her death to her are fun, and George's eventual solution is pretty cool. We also get a little bit more of the worldbuilding by acquainting ourselves with the Natural Causes division, and how Gravelings are (or at least can be?) made. Finally, there are just a great many fun and cool scenes, such as the spelling bee reap.
There are moments that I enjoyed a bit less: Mason's really cringy behaviour towards Ray; Georgia's strange (admittedly half-hearted) impulse to stop Nina's death (Haven't we been over this before? Like, she just seems to forget occasionally how reaping works); and Nina's disappearing without any real lights. Still, a more-than-great episode overall.
