Alive Like Me
Since I’m caught up on Bleach and my favorite shows have either ended (Battle Star Galatica) or been canceled (Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles), or out of season (Lost, Simpson, Family and a bunch others), I’ve been looking on Hulu to find some new shows to watch. I started off with “Lie to Me” which I really enjoyed. Then, I started watching “Bones.” Also, another good show, but sometimes it was difficult looking at some of those episodes, especially while I was eating.
When I finished with those shows, I once again starting perusing Hulu’s site to find something new to watch. I tried a few; some didn’t appeal to me; some I couldn’t even finish watching one episode.
I found “Dead Like Me.” I actually had the series in my Netflix queue, but I ended up taking it out because there was just too much stuff I wanted to watch in my queue. I think I previously saw 2 or 3 episodes so when I started again, I tried to pick up where I left off. Hulu currently has seasons 1 and 2 on there site.
I’ve been really enjoying the show. I’m now in Season two and I’m halfway done. The show is centered around a smart mouth 18 year old girl named “George,” short for Georgia. After her unfortunately demise by a toilet seat from the International Space station, she is “turned” into a reaper. She eventually joins up with other reapers were they meet in a diner (think Waffle House) everyday to receive their “reap” assignments from “Rube” (lets call him the chef reaper of this group). We later find out that there are other reaper “groups” and different kinds of reapers. Even pets have reapers.
These reapers receive their assignment on a post-it given to them by Rube. The post-it only contains first initial, last name, date/time and place where the soul should be reaped. The reapers have to show up in time, reap the soul (by touching them), and sometimes stand by and watch them die a traffic and often humorous death. Normally after the person dies, they appear in the same form before death standing next to the reaper looking at their dead body confused. Of course no one can see them but the reaper and they can pass through people and objects. The reapers are then to guide the souls on to the next life. What the souls see before they “pass on” is different for each one. Often the souls asks the reapers what’s on the other side, but they don’t really have a clue themselves, but their job is to comfort the soul as much as possible and get them to “cross on over.”
Interesting enough, these reapers have physical needs and they have to have a place to stay and eat. Since reaping doesn’t pay the bills, they have to get “real” jobs. The main character so far is the only person we know with a real job, even though Rube assures everyone that reaping is serious business and it “has to be done.” George works at a temp agency called Happy Times which is hilarious in and of itself. I can see that becoming a spin off. Anyway, when George looks in the mirror, she doesn’t see her self as she was when she was alive. To me, the person in the mirror is a lot less attractive and I would assumed obviously so, but she is regarded as pretty throughout the show. *shrug*
Anyway, the writing is very interesting. The deaths are pretty stupid and some even lame, but it’s not really about how they died, but who and what they did before they died. There are some pretty deap episodes and there is some pretty good character development going on with some episodes half focusing on one character in a serious situation while the others are off being silly. It’s really a riot.
Of course I don’t believe in reapers and the so called “after life.”
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.” – Ecclesiastes 9:5 KJV
But we have this comforting promise:
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. – 1st Thessalonians 13-17 KJV
And I’ve even considered I really shouldn’t be watching the show since it’s so biblically incorrect and what not. But it’s just some mild entertainment.
I like the color scheme and all, but I will add my own unique touches to it.
