Dead Like Me - season 2
Saturday, 5. April 2008, 00:18:01
So, some weeks ago I finally finished this show's second - and last - season, and on the whole, it had more of the same.
That being said, I think it took things a notch up. Less blatantly obvious continuity-issues, more by the way of character-arcs, and even some action a couple of places to beef up the drama a bit.
The show's not exactly dark, but it's moody. It does little good on my disposition, watching Dead Like Me, which is, I think, both its main virtue and its main flaw in my book. Sure, it's frequently rather funny, and occasionally rather poignant. But mainly, it's a sombre drama disguised as a fantasy-show with quips and sarcasms.
I won't go into a long, detailed review, partly 'cause I watched most of the show several months back and I don't feel like I remember enough details to do so, but also partly because I believe my more general impressions were aptly described in the post on season 1. Had the sombre mood of this not so easily darkened my own, I think I would have liked this show far more. As it is, it was a good show with good characters, on occasion even a laugh-out-loud-funny show, and certainly an entertaining show, but not really a show I'd like to rewatch. I'm to easily affected of the melancholy of a show whose main character is a dead girl.
Still, if they ever get around to getting out that DVD-movie-sequel, I'll watch it.
That being said, I think it took things a notch up. Less blatantly obvious continuity-issues, more by the way of character-arcs, and even some action a couple of places to beef up the drama a bit.
The show's not exactly dark, but it's moody. It does little good on my disposition, watching Dead Like Me, which is, I think, both its main virtue and its main flaw in my book. Sure, it's frequently rather funny, and occasionally rather poignant. But mainly, it's a sombre drama disguised as a fantasy-show with quips and sarcasms.
I won't go into a long, detailed review, partly 'cause I watched most of the show several months back and I don't feel like I remember enough details to do so, but also partly because I believe my more general impressions were aptly described in the post on season 1. Had the sombre mood of this not so easily darkened my own, I think I would have liked this show far more. As it is, it was a good show with good characters, on occasion even a laugh-out-loud-funny show, and certainly an entertaining show, but not really a show I'd like to rewatch. I'm to easily affected of the melancholy of a show whose main character is a dead girl.
Still, if they ever get around to getting out that DVD-movie-sequel, I'll watch it.
