Hey, they had "Birdhouse In Your Soul" in the last one! That was AWESOME.

My favorite supernatural/sci-fi shows tend toward people screaming at each other and crying and blood and violence and death (LOST, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, etc.). There is, on almost all of them, an overwhelming sense of pathos. Despair is pretty much the baseline emotion (there are people trapped on a mysterious island with no chance for escape, literally battling the forces of hell and all the evil in an everyday human soul, and being chased relentlessly across the stars by an immortal enemy). So when a show comes along that radically proposes that life isn't necessarily ALL pain, I like it.

I was a fan of Fuller's earlier shows as well (Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me, both of which had a mythic, fairy-tale quality to them) and hated that they were both cancelled. When I heard that Pushing Daisies was coming out, I begged everyone I knew who might be even vaguely interested in this sort of show to watch it, just to keep the rating up. So far, only one person has told me that the show is just too strange for them. The rest appear to be as enchanted by it as I am.