Pushing Daisies - Season 1 Exclusive

★★★★★ (Essential Viewing) Where to Watch: Max, Amazon Prime Video (as of 2025) Best For: Fans of Amélie , The Nightmare Before Christmas , Only Murders in the Building , and anyone who believes dessert is a valid dinner option.

If you have never watched , the first thing that will strike you is the color. This show does not just use color; it drowns in it. Production designer Michael Wylie and director Barry Sonnenfeld (of The Addams Family fame) created a world that is hyper-saturated, looking like a Tim Burton film crossed with a 1950s postcard and a Parisian patisserie. Pushing Daisies - Season 1

: A second touch from Ned results in permanent death, with no possibility of a second revival. Ned, played with stuttering, awkward charm by Lee

The premise of Pushing Daisies is deceptively simple yet narratively rich. Ned, played with stuttering, awkward charm by Lee Pace, is a pie-maker with a miraculous gift: he can bring the dead back to life with a single touch. However, this power comes with two strict conditions, established in the pilot episode "Pie-lette": played with stuttering

Chuck looked at him, not with the usual confusion of the briefly resurrected, but with recognition. “Ned?”

Visually, Pushing Daisies Season 1 is unlike anything else that has ever aired on network television. Under the direction of executive producers Fuller and Barry Sonnenfeld (known for The Addams Family and Men in Black ), the show utilized a "storybook" aesthetic that leaned heavily into practical sets and saturated colors.