Fact: before Lost, Damages, and a few other shows came back, we kept the last 4 aired episodes of Pushing Daisies in rotation on our DVR for, like, ever. We didn't even like that episode with Orlando Jones as a Norwegian investigator! It was just that, after the writing was on the wall for Ned and Chuck and Olive and Emerson, we wanted to have them near us as long as possible between then and the HURRY UP, PEOPLE eventual DVD release.
But of course, eventually we had to free up some space on the ol' hard drive, and so we said goodbye to the gang, and surfed around hoping to find something that would fill the -- well, if not the same gaping hole in our heart, than at least a similar one. Something that would whimsically and colorfully deal with the darker side of life, that would wittily and endearingly detail the faults of its characters and still make us like them. Something with a similarly swooning camera, a razor-sharp, skillful cast, and a flawless sense of timing.
What we found, of course, was Ugly Betty, which we'd always sort of liked but, in the wake of Pushing Daisies' passing offered many of the same goofy, mournful tendencies that we'd come to love so much. Two years after everyone else, we caught Betty fever.
And now, ABC has decided to shelve Betty until at least the summer.
So, ABC, we gotta ask -- just what the hell are we supposed to do now? Are you trying to make us crazy? Are you trying to destroy the chances for every decently told fairy tale on network TV? And by the way, what does it say about your plans to adapt Fables, the fairy tale comic book, into an hourly drama that sounded to us like, um, basically a combo of both shows with a dash more "happily ever after."
More importantly, ABC -- after cruelly ripping Anna Friel out of our loving gaze, what the heck are we supposed to do with this newly developed crush on Becki Newton?
Thanks for nothing, jerks.
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