Pulling Pansies

I just watched the second episode of Pushing Daisies.

This show is insane and totally wonderful. I don't know why it took me so long to notice this, but Kristen Chenoweth plays Olive, the waitress who works at the pie shop and is in love with Ned. (If I hadn't seen it on IMDB, I certainly would have figured it out when she started singing.)

But - cars that run on dandelions? The way that mascot girl was dressed up? I loved that. Who came up with this show?* It is the most creative TV show I've ever watched. And Lee Pace is just adorable and makes you love him more every scene.

And Emerson. Emerson and his knitting. Emerson and his total straight face in every situation. Emerson and every single thing he says. "If I wanted to mingle with a bunch of geeks wearing leotards, I'd have stayed in art school." So great.

Anyway... if you haven't started watching this show, you should watch it. If you watch any of the new shows I tell you to watch, pick this one, because it's just... wonderful.

*Bryan Fuller made this show. Looking at his IMDB profile (if you didn't know, I am kind of addicted to IMDB.com), he was apparently a producer and writer for Heroes last season, and he wrote the episode Company Man, which is the episode that a lot of people say is like, the best one of the whole series so far. He also had a lot to do with Wonderfalls, which I vaguely remember watching parts of, and there were talking inanimate objects in it, and a girl worked at a novelty shop at Niagara Falls... and it was on Fox, so it got cancelled after eleven episodes. And apparently he also did some stuff with Star Treks Voyager and Deep Space Nine.