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Pushing Daisies  - Season 1
Pushing Daisies - Season 1
2007 | Comedy, Crime, Romance
10
9.4 (7 Ratings)
Favourite TV Series
This has to be one of my all time favourite television series. The story follows Ned, a man who can bring the dead back to life. But only for a minute. Any longer and something else has to die in their place. If he touches thelay person/thing again, they will die again. Forever.


This is all well for the private investigator, Emerson Cod who accidently discovered Ned's abilities. The two of them solve crime and split the earnings between them.

However, one day Emerson and Ned are given the task to find out who murdered a woman on a cruise. The women just so happens to be Ned's childhood sweetheart Charlotte Charles. Can he keep her alive for only a minute? Or will he succumb to his selfish want of needed company and love.


The series appears to be light hearted and playful. However, this contrasts with the darkness of what is actually happening. Two men solving murder mysteries.


It is humorous and playful, often using metaphors and quirky language in the characters dialogue. Overall, it is a refreshing watch compared to other television series. I highly reccomend if you like lighthearted romance, murder mysteries with laugh out loud humour.
  
24  - Season 8
24 - Season 8
2010 | Action
Drama at its best (1 more)
The last third is very dark
Did go over well trodden ground (0 more)
A fitting end to an innovative series
24 has had its ups (season 5) and it’s downs (season 6) but it has always been exciting television - largely in part to Kiefer Sutherland owning the role of Jack Bauer.
The show opened the debate about use of torture, especially in extreme circumstances and took on philosophical view points like utilitarianism and Shakespearean tone. Season 8 wraps everything up - until Live Another Day - in terms of the character arc of Jack Bauer. Will he get a happy ending? Will the ending he gets serve the whole of the show? What happens to Chloe? All of these are answered in some way or another. I didn’t want the show to end but understood it had to. The first half of the day does go over some very well trodden ground but the second part picks up and goes very much on a ‘only one way out of this’ route.
Regardless of what people thought of the ending, 24 was an inspirational show to a new wave of television and it will be sorely missed but very much loved.
  
Westworld - Season 2
Westworld - Season 2
2018 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A Step Down
I have seen a bunch of articles online talking about how bad Westworld Season 2 is and how this show has went off of a cliff amongst many other over-exaggerations.
Westworld Season 2 is in absolutely no way a bad series of television. Sure, it isn't as good as the first season, but what you need to remember is that Season 1 of Westworld is one of the best series of TV ever broadcast.
In my opinion, Season 2 was never going to be as good as it's predecessor and that's okay. It's still intriguing, exciting and well made and without spoiling too much, I thought that the way this series ended was pretty bold and rather refreshing.
The first half of the season has it's ups and down and (SPOILERS from the end of Season 1,) the presence of Sir Anthony Hopkins is sorely missed. However, there are moments of brilliance in every episode of this series, it's just unfortunate that they are sometimes surrounded by convoluted padding.
Overall, yeah it's not as good as series 1, but you know what? I still felt like it was a pretty great season of television and I am looking forward to what this show has to offer in the future.