Pushing Daisies Season 2 Episode 8 Comfort Food
Is it getting harder and harder to watch Pushing Daisies?
This week’s episode, Olive takes center stage. She was perky, exceptionally funny, quick-witted and showed a bit of a tough side going up against a competitor in this really crazy colorful cook-off. Of course, Olive also sings a very moving song, which I will link to down the page.
Picking up where last episode left, Aunt Lily was so ready to take on Dwight. Who jumped to their seats when she blew him up with her shotgun? Before I could say “Oh no”…I was glad it was just actually her fantasy. Because we wouldn’t want to complicate things now and have Aunt Lily locked away for murder, would we? Her disgust and distrust for Dwight was too much, she was really contemplating on shooting him.
But nature took care of this for her. Or rather, her daughter, Chuck, did. Chuck’s decision to trick Ned and keep her own father alive meant Dwight ended up dying in his place. Which makes Chuck all the more guilty — for not telling Ned about keeping her undead father and for killing Dwight in the process.
At the cook-off, a murder also took place. And without Emerson to help solve the case this time (coz he was helping out Chuck sort through her own problems with her undead father), Ned has Olive as an assistant detective. One of the contestants, Colonel Likkin who made tasty fried chickens, had been fried to crisp. And someone was also sabotaging the cook-off. One and the same 
people? Not so much. The saboteur had a different agenda altogether, she so desperately wanted to win the contest. While the murderer was asking for payback and was also out to steal the fried chicken recipe.
This week featured the much talked about cross over of the character Mary Ann Marie Beetle played in an episode of Wonderfalls, one of Bryan Fuller’s show from the early 2000’s. You can view some of her scenes from Wonderfalls here.
Back to Olive — it seems her love for Ned is still there, burning.
I don’t know about you but this scene teared me up. Maybe Kristin Chenoweth sang it with so much heart, maybe it was her beautiful voice, maybe my hormones is driving up the wall or maybe it just reminds me how this good show is coming to an end really soon —- I actually cried watching this:
December 6th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
This was such a great episode.
That was such a sad scene. I was so close to crying.
I love this show so much.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:27 am
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