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Pushing Daisies: Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 3, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2
Metascore
86 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    100
    Pushing Daisies deserves its high praise. It's the best new drama of the fall, finding sweet hope in morbid tragedy.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    100
    Pushing Daisies is perfect.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    100
    It's a gloriously visual fairy tale full of saturated colors and whimsical stories, the kind of romantic comedy/whodunit that should, by rights, captivate a nation starved for quirkiness and delight.
  4. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    100
    Pushing Daisies is by far the best new series of the fall season.
  5. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    100
    Solid gold from top to bottom, the cast is almost an embarrassment of riches.
  6. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    100
    Pushing Daisies is a delicate, rapturously original little television miracle.
  7. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Gloria Goodale
    91
    The hour balances its caper-cartoon and ghoulish sensibilities with a crisp pace and well-cast leads.
  8. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    90
    This may be one of the most beautifully crafted and original TV shows ever to get fall consideration on a big network.
  9. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    90
    It's a breath of fresh air even for those of us who find our allergies stimulated by the countless particles of whimsy suspended in its thick atmosphere.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    90
    This Technicolored kaleidoscope fable of life, love and perpetual whimsy restores my faith in TV's ability to amuse, enchant and entertain with endless invention and eye-popping style.
  11. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    90
    Standing head and shoulders above this fall's other seedlings.
  12. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    90
    The lovingly and imaginatively produced pilot has to be the most gorgeous piece of television airing anywhere tonight.
  13. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    90
    I wouldn't want to miss a word.
  14. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    90
    It's the best-looking pilot of the season--maybe the best new show, period--even though it may not look that good in the future.
  15. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: John Leonard
    80
    Pushing Daisies will drive you crazy or make you smile.
  16. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    80
    It's a whimsical, romantically inventive and darkly funny pop-up hour about a man (Lee Pace) whose touch can bring the dead back to life (but also, yikes, vice versa).
  17. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    80
    It is all very beautiful.
  18. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    80
    The story of Ned (Lee Pace), a young man who can bring the dead back to life, is sweetly odd, but also oddly charming.
  19. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    80
    All the praise heaped on Pushing Daisies, and every declaration about the dramedy's originality, is merited.
  20. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    80
    As charming as all that is amid the macabre, Pushing Daisies is a show that only a grown-up can fully enjoy.
  21. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    80
    Pushing Daisies is good, as well as distinctive.
  22. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    80
    The series, from creators Bryan Fuller and Barry Sonnenfeld, is a masterful mixture of life, romance, optimism and youthful exuberance, all played out under the threat of instant death.
  23. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: David Zurawik
    80
    At its best--during several moments of exquisite longing between the adult Ned and Chuck--Pushing Daisies feels so right that it almost redeems all the wrongs of such wretched new series as Cavemen or Carpoolers.
  24. Kansas City Star
    Reviewed by: Aaron Barnhart
    80
    It's definitely not the same-old same-old, for which ABC is to be congratulated.
  25. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    80
    On top of the stars' subtlety and Fuller's verbal wit, Sonnenfeld's pilot direction ladles layers of flashy frosting--theatrical camera angles, emphatic zooms, intensified color and those heavyhanded moments when the narration can't quite straddle the sap line.
  26. Salon
    Reviewed by: Heather Havrilesky
    80
    With snappy writing, stunning art direction and a great cast, this really is the new show you don't want to miss.
  27. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    80
    Pushing Daisies captivates with an emotionally resonant story and dazzles with its bright visual imagery. Fans of delightfully daft fairy tales, this one's for you.
  28. San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times
    Reviewed by: Charlie McCollum
    80
    Daisies is something you shouldn't miss, particularly if you're looking for something different on TV.
  29. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    70
    Despite the fine work of Pace and Friel--who convey tenderness despite the director's efforts to stamp it out--the sheer quantity of forced whimsy and visual razzle-dazzle can be exhausting.
  30. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    63
    Pushing Daisies is fanciful and fun, but sometimes pushes the daisies too hard.
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User Score
8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 189 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 122
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 122
  3. Negative: 18 out of 122
  1. EnyaB
    5
    When I saw that this show was written by the same person as "Dead Like Me" I thought it had great potential. I've watched the first season and one episode of the second season (all mostly against my will, although I hope for improvement wish each episode) and there's nothing that attaches me to this show. The characters are shallow, although the acting is superb and the colors are entertaining. The narration is super, super annoying... the whole point of film and TV is for us to see the story acted out, not be told. Most of the time I could get what was going on without the narrator having to briskly gab it to me. I saw so much potential in this show that was ruined by the narration.. we were told things that could have been acted out and made the show that much better (for example, when Chuck was told by Ned that he killed her father.. except that never happened; the narrator told us it happened and then we see Ned out searching for a missing Chuck). There was far too much silliness and not enough seriousness mixed into the fray. The storyline and plot were weak and I found myself guessing the end of nearly every episode, or losing interest altogether, about halfway through the show.… Full Review »
  2. PaulW
    1
    Dreadfully dull show with lame attempts at humor which' general flamboyance seemed to be directly ripped off of the movie Amelie. The same blue light cinematography and the same annoying narration, the sets were kindly borrowed too. The score is a rip off of the more familliar Tim Burton films and the entire premise pinched from the already done to death mockeries such as the tv series Heroes. (We don't need another hero). I barely made it through the pilot.… Full Review »
  3. EvelynD
    0
    Why?? This is a epic fail. of epic porporshuns. Waaay to british (not that theres anything wrong the brits) and corny. This belongs in the PBS Kids line up.… Full Review »
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