Dead Like Me - Series 1 (Box Set) > Reviews

Advantages: great cast and acting, great concept
Disadvantages: finished after two series

George: So, what's next? Onward and upward? Rube: "Onward", not "upward". No pearly gates for you. No choirs of angels, either. George: You dick! You're sendin' me to hell? *****WHAT IS "DEAD LIKE ME"?***** It must suck being killed when you're only eighteen and have done precisely nothing with your life up until that moment. It must suck further when your killer is a flaming toilet seat falling from space. And that you need to suffer ... Read review

Advantages: Quirky, darkly funny and different.
Disadvantages: Lasted only 2 seasons.

...when she is struck down dead by a toilet seat falling from the MIR space station ! Immediately Georges soul leaves her body and is standing alone in shock and disbelief at what has happened when she is approached by Rube who explains everything.. Rube explains he is one of the undead and is the leader of a group of reapers and that she too is now one of them. He takes her to a diner where she meets the rest of the group... Roxy, Betty and ... Read review

Advantages: Amazingly Addictive and funny yet serious!
Disadvantages: Only made 2 seasons before MGM/Showtime dropped it

...She doesn't even realise she's dead until Rube turns up and points out that its her smoking body on the ground that is attracting so much attention from passers by. Rube is the leader of a team of grim reapers and takes her under his wing and to the reapers' hang out - De Wafflehouse. Here he introduces her to the other members of his undead group: Mason, Roxy, and Betty and George becomes 'Milly' to the rest of the world. Rube assignes them ... Read review