the facts are these:

the most creative, the most witty, the most inspiring television show is dying a premature death.

this show has been created to not only entertain bored souls at 8pm every wednesday but it has also been created to inspire and to instigate the most simple of minds to be picassos on their own terms. the idea of a person able to bring undeath to the dead is fresh. the idea of that person being a reclusive pie-maker is even fresher. and perhaps the freshest idea for this show is that this person is in love with a girl that he cannot touch, literally.

what do you get when you mix hearty homemade pies, buzzing bees, bright daisies, and curious dead people in a cauldron and start boiling it like soup? the lovable show called Pushing Daisies of course. an already appealing gourmet soup, this show is also often peppered with good old morbid humor and garnished with the ocassional irony.

shows like these are amusing. they are different from the boring hospital dramas, ridiculous tales of super-powered people or the pointless reality shows that seem to congest the electronic tube these days. its storybookesque narration keeps you fascinated, glued to the sit. the clever conversations and witty remarks you thought you would never find on a television show never fails to captivate whoever that listens.

sadly, shows like these are rare. in fact, i have a feeling i will be having a hard time looking for another show with this level of masterful execution of storytelling. it appears that people of this day and age prefer crude humor. people like these are the people who are in charge of deciding on whether to let the show die prematurely or to give it a touch of undeath and bring it back to life. given the fact that these people in power love dramas concerning a group of spinsters vying for an ugly-tistical man with a huge clock strapped on his ugly-tistical neck, the verdict is probably the former.

however, i will hope against hope that it is the latter. after all, this show has taught me to believe in the magical. let's hope against hope that the coeur d'coeurs within the directors at ABC is made out of daisies. =)

update: looks like there's no pie-maker around to save the show. =( it's confirmed. it's cancelled. it's dead. a beautiful piece of contemporary "art" taken off the face of the world. read about its demise here. now, help me look for another piece of "art", please.