I say: #PushinDaisies #ReWatch !!! PD Quotes HERE !
You can watch it again on HBO max
Many people really don't think about the
message and the story of a TV show, does it mean something? Maybe this is because 99%
of the shows that people watch are meant to entertain, distract us and just give us a good brief time. There still are a few TV shows about doctors who live a constant drama and at the same time are having sex with a coworker, or what about Upper East Side
teenagers living in a big city ... they have sex too ( all the time), how about reality shows of women getting married with excons ? There are a bunch of shows like that.
I can name many other shows that are all the
same or almost just with different actors and different plot but basically doing the same things.
Pushing Daisies was among the few TV shows that had a message, a different one. The whole show is sort of a metaphor or allegory for pure, eternal, faithful and undying LOVE with a necrophiliac twist. The question was: Are you capable of loving someone after he or she is gone?, when there is a big distance between lovers, can love survive?, when there’s an absence of physical affection is it worth loving that person? Would you love someone who you can't touch?
Ned (the pie maker) has the ability to bring
people back from death, back to life. Ned has a complex life hiding this secret but it's
a simple man overall, a hopeless romantic. The show doesn't talk or show any of his
previous relationships, but probably he didn't have any meaningful
relationships before Chuck ( The Lonely Tourist and best friend who is revived
by him ). I believe that Ned was obsessed with Chuck (who represents the idea
of what love is supposed to be) because she was the only person in Ned’s life
who knew what It meant to lose someone and feel lonely.
The shows often talks about Ned’s childhood, which is similar to Chuck’s
youth. They both had a good life overall, but they were trapped in different
ways. Ned wasn’t supposed to get out of the Longborough School for Boys but he
escapes and Chuck had the option of leaving her aunt’s house but she never did,
until she was brave enought to do so.
In this show the thing that keeps Ned and Chuck physically separated is his gift. This gift (touching the dead and bringing them back to life) nowadays could represents a distance of physical or even emotional, but I guess there are 3 big elements that define the fate of most relationship are:
-Distance: When lovers are apart, when they live in different cities, countries or even continents.
-Time: The years, months, weeks, days, hours and minutes they spent
apart or together. When distance is not a problem, the time they spent apart or
the other way around . When there is no distance, time is ticking
away…”will he/she change? When? Will we move in together? When? How long will this
last?” Or the relationship last too long and the lovers get sick of each other.
-Place: In this case it means the psychological/mental state of mind of the person according to a person's personal situation, employment status, economic status, maturity, the expectation that our family and society puts on us. etc.
Ned and Chuck's "only" problem is that they can’t touch, they can’t show
their affection in a traditional, normal way: Holding hands, hugs, kissing, and sex.
The show asks the viewers: Is it possible to love someone you can’t touch? Can
love last through time? Or are you so desperate for physical affection that you
are capable of losing the love of your life because of the lack of physical
contact? Ok, this is not what the creator of the show has said but, it is a good question. There are so many tv relationships that wouldn't be consider real enought if the characters on it wouldn't have sex.
When I think about romance now, I think about Ned opening Chuck’s coffin at the graveyard, literally returning Chuck to the world of the living. Dead people, cemeteries, coffins... romantic or not ? part 2 soon.
Pushing daisies is a forensic fairy tale, which is full of romanticism
and melancholy of the past and the things that are and can never be. Pushing
Daisies is a show that is a feast to the eyes! Colors and combinations, a mix
of the 50's style with the modern world in a city where we wish we could live,
a perfect aesthetic that plays with somber and dismal issues in a world where
love is worth waiting for,
worth the sacrifice and it’s worth dying and returning to life for.
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