Pushing Daisies: "Bitches"

[icepixie]

I...hmm. I don't think I really liked that one very much. It was equal amounts sickly sweet and incredibly disturbing, and in this case, those are two not-great flavors that go quite badly together.

It started off with the incredibly disturbing, which I think may have poisoned (heh) my like for this episode at the outset. (I'm not sure if it's good or bad that for a moment, I seriously believed that Chuck would have had a full bodysuit made out of rubber to wear...before she peeled it all the way off to reveal Olive, and I was quickly traumatized.)

I think there might have been a few too many guest characters (especially since they were using Olive pretty heavily along with the usual three) and that complication mixed in with the usual twisty-turniness of the plot just kind of left me in the dark. (Which Emerson is scared of. Awww.)

Did like that they dealt with the fallout from the last episode, and it was especially amusing in light of the whole polygamy thing. (Ned's various frustrated/horrified expressions were a riot.) I did wonder if Chuck, particularly, might not start thinking along the lines of each of them looking for fulfillment elsewhere, since they can't touch, and apparently she has. Pretty sure that's going to come up again.

Amusing bits:

- "There's no way this conversation is going to be anything but awkward for me." Very true.

- "That's the most tragic story I've never heard--notwithstanding the big ticket items like famine & genocide, of course, but very tragic."

- "They make dogs for their polygamous cult?" (Doggehs! Lots of doggehs!)

- Okay, the in-your-face PCness of the wives' ethnicities did make me giggle. Was Hillary supposed to be Latina?

- Heh, Pimento.

- "Your conscience calls you on the telephone?"

- "An us with special circumstances." / "Why do I always have to be around for this?" (Although this is starting to become the tiniest bit formulaic, it's still funny.)

- The squeak toy being used as a gag cracked me up.

- Minister: "Sit."

Comments

[thiswaltz.livejournal.com]

yeah, I sort of agree. I thought maybe it was because I accidentally missed the first 15/20 minutes and therefor the set-up, but this episode just wasn't magic to me. It was actually kind of awkward feeling. I Haven't lost *Any* faith in them though, because it's such a stylized show that they have to have an 'off' ep. sometimes until they have it all figured out.

I am still wildly in love with Chuck's wardrobe - that Yellow coat esp. she's so lucky to be able to wear that colour! [/shallow]

[icepixie]

Chuck's clothing is tres awesome, yes.

Too bad this one was a misstep. Next week's looks good, though.