“Pushing” boundary of quirky comedy
In the first scene of the ABC series “Pushing Daisies,” an eight-year-old boy named Ned frolics in an endless field of those yellow flowers. Suddenly, the boy’s dog is run over by a passing truck. Ned rushes to the dog, touches him and magically brings him back to life. But despite his ability to resuscitate the dead, Ned lives a seemingly normal life playing in the fields and silently obsessing over Chuck, his neighbor and the girl of his dreams. And there, in one fell swoop, you have the premise of the show: the adventures of an unassuming man who can revive the dead — with a few...
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