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dimity_blueI had to do this. Those of you who haven't seen it have to know how truly weird this show is.
It looks like it's set in the 50s, maybe 70s? It reminds me of James and the Giant Peach in style and there's a narrator (Jim Dale) who really likes being precise about numbers.
Ned (Lee Pace) is 9 years, 27 weeks, 6 days, and 3 minutes old (see what I mean about precise?) when the story starts. He's only a few minutes older when he discovers he has the amazing ability to bring people and animals back to life. (TW: His dog vs. a lorry. Temporary dog death.)
Ned later discovers there are conditions surrounding his gift.
1. If he touches the person a second time or they touch him, they instantly die.*
2. If the person doesn't return to being dead within one minute, someone else nearby dies.
*Somehow, the dog survived the day and is currently living with adult!Ned who pets him with a fake hand.
First, Ned's mother dies and Ned innocently resurrects her only for Mr. Charles, the next door neighbour, to drop dead one minute later.
Then bedtime comes and Ned's mother gives him the last goodnight kiss he'll ever receive from her.
With his mother and Mr. Charles dead and buried, Ned decides touching people at all is a bad thing and becomes a pie maker whose pies are the absolute best.
Pie maker Ned.
His pies.
His diner.
Digby, the dog, being dogsat by Olive (Kristen Chenoweth) the Pie Hole's waitress.
One day, a private detective called Emerson (Chi McBride) witnesses Ned's gift in action as Ned accidentally restores an escaping miscreant to life and promptly dispatches him again.
Running on rooftops is risky.
Emerson.
Emerson proposes a partnership. Ned will (briefly) resurrect murder victims, ask them who killed them before returning them to their previous state, then he and Emerson will split the reward money for solving the murder. Ned's diner is on the verge of being closed down, so he agrees.
(The first murder victim was Patrick Breen who played Galaxy Quest's Quellek!)
All goes well until the murder victim in question is Charlotte Charles aka 'Chuck' (Anna Friel), whom Ned has loved since he was a child.
Chuck.
Chuck about to beat the ever-loving snot out of Ned.
Ned already has severe issues regarding Chuck. Her father was the neighbour who dropped dead when Ned resurrected his mother. While Ned was sent to a boarding school, Chuck was sent to live with her aunts, Lily and Vivian (Ellen Greene and Swoosie Kurtz), a pair of synchronised swimmers whose fame faded long ago.
Ned isn't the only one with issues. Lily and Vivian have major issues with the outside world. Chuck was locked up in their world for almost 20 years before she decided a cruise would give her a break from the endless monotony. It gave her a permanent break when she was murdered.
Fortunately for Chuck (and unfortunately for the nearby funeral director) Ned can't bear to lose Chuck. She takes refuge at his diner and becomes friends with his lovelorn waitress Olive. Chuck has already revealed she never saw her killer, who threw a carrier bag over her head before strangling her. Now, she explains her cruise was a free cruise. The local travel agent, Deedee (Julie Wittner) had sent her and asked Chuck to collect a steel case containing 2 monkey ornaments. The detective trio - Ned, Emerson, and Chuck - set off to the travel agency only to find Deedee dead.
The killer has a sense of humour.
Deedee sans bag.
Ned awakens Deedee, who apologises for not warning Chuck about the danger the cruise would put her in. She also declares Ned to be adorable and taps his face to prove it.
Oops.
The trio are stumped until they realise the killer's still after the monkeys and Chuck's belongings and the all important monkey ornaments would be sent to Chuck's aunts.
Vivian and Lily.
Ned and Emerson visit the aunts and listen while the aunts show how dysfunctional they are. After a while, Lily goes upstairs to fetch the parcel but is jumped by the killer. After more awkward small talk from Vivian, Ned goes upstairs to help and is also attacked by the killer. Chuck, meanwhile, has been busy stealing the monkeys and returns in time to see Ned being attacked. She hits the killer with the empty steel case until he drops Ned.
The action pauses as he asks Chuck, "Didn't I kill you?"
Lily appears in the hall with a shotgun. "I can hold my breath a long time," she says, thinking he's talking to her, then she shoots him.
Back at the Pie Hole, Ned and Chuck discover the monkeys are made of gold.
There's a brief tying up of threads, then a quick glimpse of Ned, Emerson, and Chuck working together, and the stage is set for their work to continue.
~~~~~~
That was the episode. Are you surprised I thought it was a dream?
It looks like it's set in the 50s, maybe 70s? It reminds me of James and the Giant Peach in style and there's a narrator (Jim Dale) who really likes being precise about numbers.
Ned (Lee Pace) is 9 years, 27 weeks, 6 days, and 3 minutes old (see what I mean about precise?) when the story starts. He's only a few minutes older when he discovers he has the amazing ability to bring people and animals back to life. (TW: His dog vs. a lorry. Temporary dog death.)
Ned later discovers there are conditions surrounding his gift.
1. If he touches the person a second time or they touch him, they instantly die.*
2. If the person doesn't return to being dead within one minute, someone else nearby dies.
*Somehow, the dog survived the day and is currently living with adult!Ned who pets him with a fake hand.
First, Ned's mother dies and Ned innocently resurrects her only for Mr. Charles, the next door neighbour, to drop dead one minute later.
Then bedtime comes and Ned's mother gives him the last goodnight kiss he'll ever receive from her.
With his mother and Mr. Charles dead and buried, Ned decides touching people at all is a bad thing and becomes a pie maker whose pies are the absolute best.
Pie maker Ned.
His pies.
His diner.
Digby, the dog, being dogsat by Olive (Kristen Chenoweth) the Pie Hole's waitress.
One day, a private detective called Emerson (Chi McBride) witnesses Ned's gift in action as Ned accidentally restores an escaping miscreant to life and promptly dispatches him again.
Running on rooftops is risky.
Emerson.
Emerson proposes a partnership. Ned will (briefly) resurrect murder victims, ask them who killed them before returning them to their previous state, then he and Emerson will split the reward money for solving the murder. Ned's diner is on the verge of being closed down, so he agrees.
(The first murder victim was Patrick Breen who played Galaxy Quest's Quellek!)
All goes well until the murder victim in question is Charlotte Charles aka 'Chuck' (Anna Friel), whom Ned has loved since he was a child.
Chuck.
Chuck about to beat the ever-loving snot out of Ned.
Ned already has severe issues regarding Chuck. Her father was the neighbour who dropped dead when Ned resurrected his mother. While Ned was sent to a boarding school, Chuck was sent to live with her aunts, Lily and Vivian (Ellen Greene and Swoosie Kurtz), a pair of synchronised swimmers whose fame faded long ago.
Ned isn't the only one with issues. Lily and Vivian have major issues with the outside world. Chuck was locked up in their world for almost 20 years before she decided a cruise would give her a break from the endless monotony. It gave her a permanent break when she was murdered.
Fortunately for Chuck (and unfortunately for the nearby funeral director) Ned can't bear to lose Chuck. She takes refuge at his diner and becomes friends with his lovelorn waitress Olive. Chuck has already revealed she never saw her killer, who threw a carrier bag over her head before strangling her. Now, she explains her cruise was a free cruise. The local travel agent, Deedee (Julie Wittner) had sent her and asked Chuck to collect a steel case containing 2 monkey ornaments. The detective trio - Ned, Emerson, and Chuck - set off to the travel agency only to find Deedee dead.
The killer has a sense of humour.
Deedee sans bag.
Ned awakens Deedee, who apologises for not warning Chuck about the danger the cruise would put her in. She also declares Ned to be adorable and taps his face to prove it.
Oops.
The trio are stumped until they realise the killer's still after the monkeys and Chuck's belongings and the all important monkey ornaments would be sent to Chuck's aunts.
Vivian and Lily.
Ned and Emerson visit the aunts and listen while the aunts show how dysfunctional they are. After a while, Lily goes upstairs to fetch the parcel but is jumped by the killer. After more awkward small talk from Vivian, Ned goes upstairs to help and is also attacked by the killer. Chuck, meanwhile, has been busy stealing the monkeys and returns in time to see Ned being attacked. She hits the killer with the empty steel case until he drops Ned.
The action pauses as he asks Chuck, "Didn't I kill you?"
Lily appears in the hall with a shotgun. "I can hold my breath a long time," she says, thinking he's talking to her, then she shoots him.
Back at the Pie Hole, Ned and Chuck discover the monkeys are made of gold.
There's a brief tying up of threads, then a quick glimpse of Ned, Emerson, and Chuck working together, and the stage is set for their work to continue.
~~~~~~
That was the episode. Are you surprised I thought it was a dream?