Given
the fact that its protagonist can touch dead people back to life and ask who
killed them, Pushing Daisies still
does a fine job coming up with intriguing, wild, visually inventive murders for
the team to solve. It’s an achievement
Bryan Fuller comes by honestly – he honed his ability to come up with creative
death scenarios on Dead Like Me, and
he current puts it to impressive use
on Hannibal. The following five episodes contain my
favorite cases solved by the Pie Hole crew.
“The Smell of Success” (Season 1, Episode 7)
Okay,
this case has it all. Scratch ‘n’ sniff explosives? Tension among both novelty book authors and olfactory experts? The threat of Cannibalistic Humanoid
Underground Dwellers? Check, check, and check.
Oscar Vibenius is an awesome character (who brought some tension to a
larger season arc in an unexpected way,) and Anita Gray is the sweetest charred
corpse you’ve ever met.
“Corpsicle” (Season 1, Episode 9)
I love
the intrigue of this one, the dead bodies of insurance adjustors showing up
frozen and occasionally hidden in snowmen.
There’s something of a vigilante justice angle, a great stake-out scene
between Ned and Emerson, and the fantastic sight of Emerson using a knitting
needle to chip the ice off a “freezer-burnt” corpse so Ned can make the
necessary contact.
“Frescorts” (Season 2, Episode 4)
Frescorts! Oh my gosh, I love this case. The whole idea of friend escorts amuses me,
and everything over at Frescorts HQ is fun and cheerily weird. I also really like the double clients
(especially the Kalashni-Cod scene,) along with Chuck and Olive’s undercover
shenanigans and the gross-out factor of a friendly dead Frescort preserved in
formaldehyde.
“Dim Sum Lose Some” (Season 2, Episode 5)
I love
the noir-ishness of the shady, behind-closed-doors dealings at the dim sum
restaurant, helped, of course, by the presence of Emerson’s potential squeeze
Simone – I just love that cool-as-a-cucumber dog breeder. Oh, and dim sum poker? Creative and delicious. If I knew someone running a dim sum poker
game, I might actually have to take up poker.
“Window Dressed to Kill” (Season 2, Episode
11)
Department
store window dressers turning up dead, accompanied by the lavishly-dressed
windows that are decked out to look eerily, presciently similar to the death
scenarios? I’m so there. Plus, this is a case that’s largely hands-off
by Ned (literally,) so we get to see Emerson and Chuck doing old-fashioned,
non-magic legwork to solve the murders.
Fun all around.
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