mrryanscott-15530 This was a very interesting show. I liked Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin a lot. The show was a little thin once the premise kind of wears off a few episodes in but it was a lot of fun while it lasted.

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.

tranj001 I think whats so successful about Dead Like Me is also why it was also so short lived. It has a highly underdeveloped mythology and Rube was the personification of this characteristic. That's was also why was was such an important character and loosing him was so devastating to the show. The flaw about the show is that it never really clearly defined the mythology (in Dead Like Me, its the concept of death and its intricacies, a really good example of clearly defined mythology is Inception and its ideas on dreams). And I often feel that Dead Like Me is also flawed since the mythology is not consistent. Clear indicators of underdeveloped mythology are shown in the initial episodes and how the questions they posed never get answered. For example, do trees, rocks, blah blah have souls? And the response was Rube says we just don't do it so I don't. I think one of the reasons the writers were so averse in defining these terms is because when you clearly define the mythology, you risk alienating viewers and the stories don't endure the test of time very well. But I have to say, I really loved the show and continue to re-watch it time and time again because it is so entertaining and so funny.

Shawn Should have been on the air for much longer than it was. The acting was excellent with solid performances from the entire cast lead by Mandy Patinkin. The lead actress Ellen Muth was both funny and beautiful and I'd love to see her in more shows. The show had good writing and the characters where just starting to grow when the show was taken off the air. This is a great example of a show that could be reworked and brought back or put into reruns on a cable network. There are several that it could work on. The whole concept of reapers walking among us is not an idea that is out of place on television lately and would fit right in. At very least it should be in syndication. It was watched by everyone in my household when it was on and is worth a watch if you haven't had a chance to see it before.