Pushing Daisies

First of all — better and better and better…that’s what this show is becoming, which makes it all the more bad. *sigh*.

This week, the relationship between Chuck and Ned encounters a major hiccup in the presence of Chuck’s undead father…who has become this overprotective, selfish father. He has expressed to Ned to stop seeing his daughter again, even went and tussled him for it. If this was intended to be one of the story arcs Pushing Daisies was going into in the future, it would have been a very interesting one.

Part of Charles Charles’ animosity breeds from the fact that it was Ned who accidentally unintentionally killed him. Another part of it is because he’s going through the process of his little girl having a boyfriend for the first time. He is being a typical father to a daughter he sees so precious.

Also going through the process for the first time? Chuck and Ned had their first major fight because of him.  You think keeping a relationship where they can’t touch each other is hard? Dealing with a difficult dad is probably harder.

Charles Charles rationalizes with his daughter that there are still so many things, so many adventures, she has yet to do, than be kept in the kind of life she has now. He asks his daughter to choose any place they can go together, but she chose to stay with Ned. Her dad meanwhile chose to be somewhere else. Is this the last we’ll see of him? Will Ned have the chance to touch Charles Charles again?

Meanwhile, because Ned and Chuck are dealing with this personal issue, Emerson is working with his new Junior Assistant, Olive, in helping solve the case of the week — the murder of the lighthouse keeper in Papen County. It wasn’t an especially confusing case to solve but the scenes between Olive and Emerson were so right on the money. It’s a very interesting partnership I would love to see go on and on (chest bumping and all!), if only…

And for a detective just starting out, Olive Snook has the nose for it! She also has the right wardrobe to go the occasion. Those raincoats she got for them were hilarious! I wonder where one gets something like it for real?

Anyway, love the developing dynamics between the Cod and Olive. It’s touching to see their final scenes together — Emerson offering her a place to go in case this love and pining for Ned is too much for Olive to bear. Watching this and knowing it’s going to end soon — that’s also too hard to bear!

We briefly see Aunts Lily and Vivian in the beginning. They almost catch Charles and Chuck camping at Ned’s house. Will this also have closure by the end of the series?

And lastly — what are you by the way, a pie person or a cake person? I have been having cake all my life… Cake, I can get anywhere. Pies, on the other hand? Not so much. Which is why I want it more.