For this week's TV Rewind, LacyMB resurrects DeadLikeMe, an early Bryan Fuller series that may be gone but never forgotten:
—it’s something of a cult classic among dedicated TV fans. But even now, almost two decades later, it’s a show that deserves to reach a broader audience, just as it was back then. That’s becauseis still a brilliant and underrated gem, a story that simultaneously wrestles with both the challenges of growing up and the meaning of life itself.is a show about death. Or, rather, the afterlife, in ways both literal and figurative.
Much of the show’s first season is dedicated to George learning the ropes of reaping: How the taking of souls is assigned ; can you refuse to reap someone ; if there are ways to trick the system that decrees when someone must die . As a character, George is wonderful-smart, incredibly stubborn, worldly, and strangely innocent at the same time-and her experience is a pretty relatable one, undead though it may be.
Though the narrative often frames George’s undead status as a second chance, it never lets her—or us—forget that she squandered the time that really mattered, and hints that the best she can do is create a sort of secondary life here, which will always exist in the shadow of the one she had before. also deftly balances day-to-day stories of George’s afterlife with the emotional toll of her death.
Despite George’s death, her grieving family remains a key part of the show. Much of the series’ first season is dedicated to George’s stubborn inability to let go of the world she left behind. She sneaks into her old bedroom, visits the yard sale at which her mother’s selling her former belongings , and even sits in on one of her father’s college classes.
Lacy Baugher is a digital producer by day, but a television enthusiast pretty much all the time. Her writing has been featured in Collider, IGN, Screenrant,and others. Literally always looking for someone to yell about Doctor Who and/or CW superhero properties with, you can find her on Twitter
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