This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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.

I really did try my hardest to get into this show but each and every time I would just come away feeling bored and irritated. I find it tedious and completely lacking in subtlety and suspension. How it ever got beyond the commission stage is beyond me.Georgina 'Georgia' Lass ( Ellen Muth ) is an awkward cynical teenage girl whose life is empty and worthless. One day, she is crushed to death after being struck from a falling toilet bowl. She is then revived as a grim reaper by a team of fellow reapers who include the smug Rube ( Mandy Patatkin ), the dim-witted Mason ( Callum Blue ), the hard-hearted Roxy ( Jasmine Guy ) and the loud and vindictive Betty ( Rebecca Gayheart ).The death of Georgia has a profound affect on her parents, Joy ( Cynthia Stevenson ) and Clancy ( Greg Kean ), who relationship is on stony ground. Georgia's sister Reggie ( Britt McKillip ) is also affected by her sibling's death, so much so that she goes through a phase of stealing toilet seats for sometime thereafter.Ellen Muth irritated me as the gawky Georgia. She was devoid of any emotion whatsoever, and the rest of the cast were just plain boring. The biggest offender though in the cast was Mandy Patatkin as Rube. His character's arrogance and intolerance towards people was really too much for me. For instance, there was a scene in one episode where in an airport waiting area, his patience towards the repeated cries from a baby snapped, to which he loudly exclaimed: ''I'm gonna kill that fuckin' baby!''. That was my cue to stop watching.Two seasons were made, which was two too many for me. I'm sorry if you like the show and do not agree with my harsh review, but it really just did not click with me at all!

I've been revisiting this show over the last few days and I still marvel at how good it is, and how much we have been deprived of more by its cancellation after only two years on the air. Dead Like Me remains glorious in writing, casting, fun. How much I enjoy seeing these actors grow into their respective roles over two years. The chemistry between them is magnificent and one has to thank the casting department to have chosen Mandy Patinkin as the leader of the group. His personality and acting skills are second to none. Ellen Muth as 'The Toilet Seat Girl' ties all the episodes together with a kind of dispassionate and sarcastic tone that I can't get enough of. Daisy, so flawed and so beautiful, moving softly through every reaping, cheerful, seemingly unaffected. In this world, this alternate world beyond our own, I would love for her to greet me when I move on to the other side. These characters are all good as gold. Every few years, I take out the DVDs and watch them all again, laughing, being moved, enjoying. Perfect 10 for sure. The movie isn't so good, but it closes the series pretty well. There is one thing I find funny with Ellen Muth. I think she's the most beautiful woman I've seen with a sad face. And when she smiles, it's just like a rainbow after the storm. Endearing to the last of my days. The best of the handful TV series I treasure.

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.