adampkalb I am not sorry that I can not stand this show. Ellen Muth is a girl that will not be happy for the Happy Time Temp Agency. I'm not into dark stuff-especially the disturbing adult kind like Mr. Pickles. Excuse me if I sound close-minded after seeing 2 episodes, but already we have an unlikable protagonist who isn't funny or engaging as a character, Mason telling us about how every living thing dies is the most traumatizing thing you can hear about, creatures called Gravelings who cause people's deaths, and (although it never happens) that a soul can rot in a living person doesn't die at their scheduled time, which would mean that if a person's time of death was predetermined before they were even born, then it's the determiner's fault that the soul rots. Or Rube lied because he doesn't want us to intervene in someone's death, and he's a jerk for making up excuses for George to not save the girl. Either way, it's bull feces because what if you remove a soul from a dead body and then the soul rots almost immediately afterwards, or a soul really did rot days before that person was scheduled to die? I think the entire show of Dead Like Me is already soulless enough as it is.Maybe Dead Like Me isn't my type of genre, but I've seen it and it's full of terrible or bland people and George's family is already a terrible one even before George dies. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to watch Pushing Dasies (a lighter Bryan Fuller show with more interesting and better characters) and spend my life discovering the key to eternal youth to save living things/people/animals from dying, sort of like Rick and Morty's Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, except not confined to one vacation spot. I hope you don't die when you're still young. :)I believe the whole joke with Georgia Lass is that "she's already dead inside" and so that's probably the point of her still having to work as a living person while also being a reaper taking dead people's souls being the only thing that's changed about her life (aside from her family losing her) since she died, and she has to collect enough sounds before she can go into the afterlife because she's not even interesting enough to go to hell. See what I mean? Anyways, she's still not an interesting person to follow. No matter how much development she may get in all 2 seasons of this show, I can't care about her from where she starts and I don't like this show in general. I'd rather see Final Destination because at least those are over a lot more quickly and have more interesting/engaging characters and Mary Winstead.The only good or remotely interesting characters in this show are Mason, Rube, Betty (if she wasn't only in 5 episodes) and Roxy, and it's rather tragic when your lead character has NO character beyond being an apathetic b**ch who did nothing with her life or cared for anyone until after she died. It's no wonder this show ended after 2 seasons if the staff was worried that the problems would continue, and I don't want to see any show where I have to think about death and its repercussions all the time or worry about "appointments with death." In any melodramatic show, such as 24 or Six Feet Under or Supernatural or Dead Like Me, it's hard to care about ANYBODY when random innocent people get killed and the few main characters who are safe from being killed have to always be miserable. I just wish Georgia would stomp out all the Gravelings and go to heaven for saving appointments from death for ever being scheduled.

gopal4320-840-668506 I haven't quite figured out why I like this show but I think it's because of Ellen Muth and, of course, the excellent writing. Ellen Muth, who plays the lead character George who seems to have almost no muscles in her face, somehow projects a humanity into the show without seeming to do anything. It's fun watching her adventures as she seems to stumble through "life" from one death to the next without ever falling. I find myself pulling for everyone in the show to pull off whatever they're trying to pull off, even if it's a little sleazy, and always look forward to the next episode. Most of the characters are people I didn't care much for at first but as the writers revealed who they really are I came to love.The show opens with George moving towards her death and that death, in all its spooky, unorthodox glory set the stage for the rest of the showI'm quite disappointed this worthy show only made it through two seasons. I could have enjoyed the adventures of George for years.

bencibu The series is centered on the life of George , an 18-year-old apathetic college drop-out girl who goes through life without having a purpose. The truth is she doesn't even want to have one, she is comfortable the way she is. Up until the day of her death… Which also means the end of her days of slothfulness since she's chosen to become a grim reaper. First she tries making a getaway from this seemingly distressing responsibility but this isn't something she can just shrug off which she has a hard time accepting.The story's very well written and it's found the delicate balance between quite a few genres being drama, comedy and horror. I really like the way the series deals with death. It's not our final destination, rather something we all have to go through before the next act begins. Once you've got into the swing of the series you'll actually end up anticipating the deaths of the 'victim to be-s' of George… What I didn't like is the first few episodes which could have been a little faster paced, and that only two seasons have been made.

syer zec If someone is looking for a drama series close to SIX FEET UNDER, forget it. DEAD LIKE ME is so different like no other - except death, which is everywhere ;-) And I don't think that the show wants sentimentalism (maybe only in 2-3 episodes), because it is not a drama series in my eyes. Otherwise you could not easily skip 1-2 shows without feeling lost in seasons' plot.If you want a nice entertaining evening, relaxing without thinking afterward about the show - or cry, than you have to watch it. The show rewards you with a cute storyline and funny oral attacks. I have really enjoyed the whole show and especially season 2 - maybe because the acting did a very big step forward. Way better than season 1.And once again you cannot compare DEAD LIKE ME with SIX FEET UNDER (personal rate 9-10). For example you could mixed up the episodes of DEAD LIKE ME (especially on the second trial - if you do so). Today episode 10, tomorrow episode 2, end so on. With SIX FEET UNDER and it is not that easy to do so - also not if you see it through for a second time.