Posts with tag ChiMcbride
Posted Sep 30th 2008 6:00AM by Maggie Furlong
Filed under: Interviews, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free
Chi McBride made a name for himself playing incredibly serious, commanding, dramatic roles, which is probably why people love him so much as Emerson Cod, the cynic with perfect comedic timing on ABC's
Pushing Daisies.
When
Pushing Daisies returns for its second season (premiering Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 8PM EST), we'll find Emerson, Ned, Chuck and Olive solving murders in a particularly buzz-worthy cosmetics company, a killer circus, a magician's castle and a nunnery, just to name a few.
Chi talked to us about Emerson's softer side, his mission in life and how to become his best friend ever ... and it only requires a few million friends.
Continue reading Quick Chat with Chi McBride
Posted Dec 12th 2007 11:02PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E09) "There is an unpleasant chill in the air." - The NarratorAnd we have arrived: this week's episode was the last completed-before-the-strike episode of ABC's
Pushing Daisies. The quote I put under the picture may not have been the most important one said in the episode (the bombshell quote is a tad too shocking to put up front) but it does highlight the mood and tone of the episode: chilly. "Corpsicle" is not my favorite
Pushing Daisies episode but it offered good reveals, some fantastic lines from Emerson and Olive, and it finally gave the aunts (at least one of them) a real purpose in the series.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Corpsicle
Posted Nov 28th 2007 11:26PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E08) "Am I your boyfriend?" - Ned
"Yes." - ChuckIt was
announced about two months ago that Molly Shannon would guest star on ABC's
Pushing Daisies and the day, err... evening, has come. I've read a lot of comments from fans saying that they were somewhat scared after hearing she would guest star mostly because they thought her acting wasn't good enough for the show. In retrospect, her acting wasn't that great but it wasn't that bad either since
Daisies is over the top at times.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Bitter Sweets
Posted Nov 21st 2007 11:57PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E07) "The mere smell of it made him feel, if only for an hour, exactly like he wanted to feel: safe and warm and loved, which is why he became the pie maker." - NarratorABC lost a good and fun opportunity to offer
Pushing Daisies viewers a chance to get up close and really personal with the show and maybe attract new people who would have been interested in a scratch 'n' sniff event! Yes, it would have been pretty much a copy of what
NBC did last year with My Name Is Earl, but having a scratch 'n' sniff card to use throughout this olfactory episode would have been just as magical as the episode itself! Okay, maybe the smell of the sock and the sewer would have been terrible but it would have been interesting to smell Ned, Emerson, and "honey and death" (aka Chuck). Okay, maybe that would have been a bad idea. Let's move on to the episode instead.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Smell of Success
Posted Oct 31st 2007 9:02PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E05) "Tell Ned I love... his pies." - OliveThis Halloween-themed
Pushing Daisies episode has been one of my favorites so far this season. We learned more about Ned's past and we discovered who Olive used to be while being entertained by a magical and mysterious storyline that was reminiscent of stories and movies such as
Sleepy Hollow.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Girth
Posted Oct 17th 2007 9:19PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(
S01E03)
"You killed someone for me?" - Chuck After watching
last week's episode, I was as worried as Joel was/is about
Pushing Daisies's future. With such a stellar pilot, it was a given that the subsequent episodes wouldn't be as great but that second episode was a letdown. Narration aside (I'll get to this later on), this week's episode reassured me that
PD can survive in its current format.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: The Fun in Funeral
Posted Oct 10th 2007 9:45PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E02) OK, I am now ever so slightly worried about
Pushing Daisies.
Oh, don't get me wrong: there was plenty to like about the second episode of the most praised new show of the season. But there were two things that got me and every person concerned about this show's long-term future: a) Would the show get too cute (or
twee, if closet Brit Anna Friel was discussing it. Alan Sepinwall was the first critic to use the term for the show, and I think it fits perfectly) for its own good, and b) would Barry Sonnenfeld's
rumored budget overruns sink the show in its later episodes?
After watching "Dummy," my answers right now are a) it might if it's not careful, and b) it's starting to look that way.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Dummy
Posted Jul 6th 2007 8:01AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Short-Lived Shows
Fans of ABC's canceled-too-soon series
The Nine will be happy to know that the six unaired episodes of the series will see the light of the small screen this summer.
The series, starring actors such as Tim Daly, Chi McBride, John, Billingsley, and Kim Raver, will return to ABC in its old 10 p.m. ET on Wednesdays timeslot starting August 1.
Continue reading The Nine is resurrected for six episodes
Posted Oct 4th 2006 11:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, The Nine
(S01E01) There are certain words I'm hesitant to use to describe this first episode of
The Nine. After my praise and hype of
Studio 60, I caught the wrath of many readers who thought I was either overpraising the show a little bit or just completely wrong for even liking the show. So, I'm hesitant to say that
The Nine is excellent. It's exciting and well put together and deserves the hype that has been building for the past several weeks.
Having said that, I'd just like to say that
The Nine is excellent. It's exciting and well put together and deserves the hype that has been building for the past several weeks.
Continue reading The Nine: Pilot (series premiere)
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