Written by Bryan Fuller, the genius behind Pushing Daisies and the only reason to watch Heroes for the seasons where he wrote for them (too bad he’s already gone again), Dead Like Me was a genius series on Showtime about grim reapers, with Mandy Patinkin in his best role since Inigo Montoya. And now Hulu has the whole series available online for free.
Take an hour and a half of your day and watch the pilot. You’ll love it, guaranteed or your money back!
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Twitter: VerdantDude
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And all of Season 1 and Season 2 are available for Instant streaming on Netflix as well.
Plus the feature follow-up DVD from earlier this year Dead Like Me: Life After Death. I haven’t seen it but they got back a bunch of the original cast for it. No Bryan Fuller though.
It’s on my queue, but I’m wading thru Battlestar Galactica right now. So it will have to wait a bit.
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@B.E. Earl, the movie sucked because of no Mandy Patinkin.
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Twitter: tlkaply
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Oh fine. It’s not like I’ll lack for time.
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@Tracy Lynn, exactly – you’ll thank me later.
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Twitter: Blogography
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Brian Fuller is also half-responsible for the brilliant “Wonderfalls”… which I actually prefer slightly over “Dead Like Me.”
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@Dave2, I’ll check that out some time, too.
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Twitter: Faiqa
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God, I loved this show. I wish it were still on, though.
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@Faiqa, me too.
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Thanks pumpkin!!
Don’t you just love hulu? I know I love hulu. This was such a great post! I so much enjoyed reading the few lines of text you tossed up before the wonderful amazing hulu video.
Oh wait. that’s right! My bad. Hulu is only available to US residents. ahh well! I’m not much of a television fan anyway!
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@bluepaintred, hahaha – sorry. That’s what you get for living in Canada.
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i was about to go all, “all you need is an ip address program that makes your ip anonymous..” but those bastards threw up a “we noticed that your ip address is anonymous blah blah blah”
*sigh* i really liked that show, but i never got to see much of it. now i’ll have to go through other more painful means to ever be able to watch it.
i feel your pain bluepaintred, they don’t even have net flix here.
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@Cri, no Netflix in Canada? The humanity!
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Been meaning to check that out on Hulu, watch Hulu a lot and recently watched Kingdom which is a UK series with Stephen Fry.
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@Mik, I’ll have to check that out.
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Oh, we loved this show! I will be visiting it again.
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@Kelly, that’s what I’m doing right now.
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You know why I visit your site so much?
Because you post so many fucking articles. Don’t you ever sleep?
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@Fantasy Writer Guy, never. I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
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I freaking LOVE Dead Like Me! That and Firefly are my two not so popular but everyone should watch shows that I harass everyone I know to check out.
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@Breigh, don’t get me started about Firefly.
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What Dave2 said. Wonderfalls was brilliant.
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@Rachel, that will be my next show.
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If I don’t like it, do I get my hour and a half back?
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@piersgavestonjr, never!
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that was a great show. i’ve seen every episode, i do believe.
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@Peau, I’m rewatching it now.
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I LOVE Dead Like Me! I’ve now seen them all, and I can’t believe that they cancelled it. Such a great premise…and a great cast!
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@Christy, yes, it was.
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I want my money back.
I remember being excited for this when it first came out…and I just didn’t care for it.
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@Paticus, no? It’s amazing.
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Twitter: hismuse
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I’ve already seen it on Netflix a while back (and LOVED it), does that put me a little higher on the cool scale?
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@Robin, just a bit.
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I want to move into Bryan Fuller’s mind. I wonder if he’s renting?
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@Hilly, me too!
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Will do – later, when I’m not working!
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@Sybil Law, let me know what you think.
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We have eerily similar taste in TV.
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@Jen, that’s not eerie. I have excellent taste in TV!
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LOVED Pushing Daisies. It was my husband’s favorite series until they killed it dead with no hope of someone bringing it back to life, except maybe on Hulu someday. I will most definitely check out this show. I don’t invest in premium channels, so I don’t know about these things until someone comes along and enlightens me.
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@MidLifeMama, hopefully you’ll like it.
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I loved that show. I am always now skeptical of everyone that bumps into me in public.
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@Hockeyman, ha!
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I LOVED this show and was so sad when it went off the air. Sadly, it seems like mostly crap that stays for our viewing pleasure.
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@carrie, yeah, unfortunately.
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Oreos
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@Miss Britt, milkshake.
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THAT’S where I’ve seen Mandy Patinkin!!! I could not put my finger on it : ) cool beans…
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@cat, you couldn’t? Sigh.
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Twitter: hellohahanarf
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so i have to watch something that is gonna suck me in, only to devastate me coz it is canceled? i don’t know…
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@hello haha narf, but it’s good while it lasts.
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Twitter: nycwatchdog
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I already own the whole series on DVD with the exception of the movie.
But now I wonder why I spent the money if its free in Hulu.
Makes me ponder…
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@NYCWD, because owning the DVDs is better.
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Twitter: s_csr
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I’m busy watching Buffy. And I doubt my computer can handle watching a full tv episode. It’d crash or something retarded.
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Twitter: elizabethbarone
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@Sheila (Charm School Reject), YES Buffy!
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@Sheila (Charm School Reject), sigh. Only because you are technologically disabled.
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Twitter: elizabethbarone
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Man I love Hulu. I’ve been wanting to see this show but never had HBO or Showtime or whatever the hell it was on when it first launched. I sense a marathon coming…
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@Elizabeth Kaylene, it will suck you in!
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Twitter: Barking_Mad
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I loved this show so much when it was on, despite having watched every episode, that I bought the DVD’s. Was crushed when it was cancelled, but oh well, and now comes along Hulu. Great, just after I bought the last two seasons of Buffy on DVD and bought the first two seasons of the X-files.
I swear, I live under a fucking rock.
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@Auds at Barking Mad, I own all the series, even if they’re online for free.
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I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Dead Like Me! I have watched the entire first season and have the rest cued on Netflix. Amazing writing and great acting! We need more tv like this!
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@Libby, I agree.
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I loved this and Wonderfalls. Both are great shows and now that it’s on Hulu, I’ll have something else to watch when the next celebrishit dies.
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@metalmom, exactly!
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Seriously?
That’s your post for today?
You’re announcing that some lame-o chick show is available to watch on Hulu?
And you’re admitting that you watched it?
You and your big dumb vagina can have fun watching that bullshit.
You wouldn’t try the new Knight Rider, and now you’re watching girl crap…
Bad bro-code. Your man card is revoked.
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@Clown, I know, I’m sorry. Want to come over and watch Straight Dave’s Monster Truck Rally tonight?
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My husband just told me this was available online today too. We adore this show.
Have you seen Wonderfalls?
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@Maria, not yet. I think I’ll watch that next.
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Twitter: Amanda234
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I’d been wanting to watch this and it was in my queue, but now that you told me this I’ve been glued to the computer for the past 6 hours.
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@Amanda, so you’ve been enjoying it?
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Twitter: rachael1013
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I love Mandy Patinkin. He is just great. I have watched about 1/2 of the first season of this show and thought it was great. I also have Wonderfalls on DVD and my best friend said it’s great, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
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@Rachael, well, now you can finish the season for free!
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Bryan Fuller rocks! Well, mostly. That last Heroes episode he produced was disappointing. Everything else, though? Awesome.
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@Ren, yeah, that episode wasn’t very good.
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I’ve been watching Dead Like Me the same way you told me I was watching Sex and the City – the wrong way! It’s been coming on at about 1 a.m. on Sundays.
But just so you know, there is hope for me, because I saw it on Hulu today even before I read this and thought, “Hey, that’s a much better way to watch the show!”
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Thanks for the recommendation. With Monday night being devoid of anything worth watching, I’m scooting over to Hulu to check out this series, Dead Like Me.
Rock on, rocker.
Joe “TFKoP”
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I love that series.
Dead Like Me… I catch it on Sci Fi.. or ScyFy???
Love it.
Mandy Patinkin, I just like saying his name
Moosh sent me
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Twitter: http://whall.org/blog
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For you, I will endeaver to do this before I fall to my death due to the ravaging ….
[gurgle]
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I love that you love this show. I was disappointed with the movie though.
(Hey, look who’s catching up on her reader!)
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