Dead Like Me: The Movie

Dead Like Me was a two-season show that ran on Showtime a few years ago, about a group of grim reapers who acted more like social workers than the typical cloak and scythe type we’re all familiar.

Moviehole.net is reporting that Dead Like Me is returning in a direct-to-DVD movie, hopefully featuring the entire cast returning. This is great news for fans of the show (like myself) when Showtime canceled the series after only two seasons.

In addition to having a top notch cast that included Mandy Patinkin, Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Rebecca Gayheart, and Jasmin Guy, the series also had excellent scripts and direction as well. The story centers around 18 year old Georgia who lived a shallow slacker life, dropping out of college, and living with her overbearing mother until on her way to a temp job she gets nailed by a toilet seat that had fallen from a Russian space station. Hell of a way to go.

George (as she’s called on the show), or Peanut (as Rube called her), then has to live the rest of her existence as an 18-year old Grim Reaper. It’s not as traditional as you might think–other than the opening credits, the a-typical Death doesn’t actually appear anywhere in the show. Instead the “Grim Reapers” are supposed to take the souls of those that are about to die to spare them the pain of their own death.

Unfortunately for poor George and the rest of the crew, it’s a non-paying job. Who would you collect a check from, anyway? I don’t see any banks cashing checks from GOD, or even Death for that matter. So they must make due with crappy temp jobs, or as Mason (Callum Blue) does, which is petty theft and mischief to make ends meet.

Source: MovieHole.net