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Dead Like Me - The Complete Second Season
Directors: James Marshall (III), Tony Westman, Milan Cheylov, David Straiton
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price (not our price): $39.98
Release Date: 2005-07-19
Theatrical Release Date: 2003-06-27
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Run Time: 702 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Discs: 4


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
In the second season of Showtime's Dead Like Me, teen grim reaper George (Ellen Muth) returns just as she left the first--dead. (Technically, undead.) That isn't about to change, but some things will. In season premiere "Send in the Clown," she'll get a promotion at the Happy Time temp agency (a dead ringer for Office Space's soul-sucking cubicle maze). Meanwhile, Roxy (Jasmine Guy), a tough-talking fellow reaper, will make the move from meter maid to police officer. After all, even reapers have to eat. There are other changes. George's parents, Joy (Cynthia Stevenson) and Clancy (Greg Kean), finally throw in the towel on their foundering marriage. The other reapers experience their share of good and bad luck. Sweet, if narcissistic Daisy (Laura Harris) finds religion, larceny, and love (in that order), while bad boy Brit Mason (Callum Blue) gives up the bottle only to take it up again and no-nonsense reaper boss Rube (Mandy Patinkin) spends most of the season trying to track down someone from his mortal past. There were 15 episodes in the second season. Guest stars include Michael Des Barres as a washed-up rocker ("In Escrow"), Barbara Barrie as George's free-spirited grandmother ("Rites of Passage," "The Escape Artist"), and Eric McCormack as a cocky TV producer who falls for Daisy (three episodes, starting with "Death Defying"). Unfortunately, 2004 wouldn't turn out to be creator Bryan Fuller's lucky year. Despite fan devotion, critical praise, and Emmy nominations, both of his distinctively quirky dark comedies, Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me, would not be renewed--but at least the latter made it to the end of the year. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

2) Description
Proving that "reapers are anything but grim company" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), this "deliciously dark comedy about the afterlife" (Newsday) returns for "a second season as strong as its first" (Philadelphia Daily News). Thanks to breakout star Ellen Muth's prickly charm, Dead Like Me has "an amusingly odd and touching energy all its own" (Detroit News and Free Press). After more than a year as a grim reaper, George (Muth) has realized that being a teenager in the afterlife is as complex as in real life. There are still unrequited crushes, agonizing dilemmas and the occasional bad attitude. Along with her kooky "co-reapers" Mason, Daisy, Roxy and Rube, George struggles to collect souls while managing her own awkward development…into an adult reaper!Disc One"Send in the Clown," "The Ledger," "Ghost Story," "The Shallow End"Disc Two"Hurry," "In Escrow," "Rites of Passage," "The Escape Artist"Disc Three"Be Still My Heart," "Death Defying," "Ashes to Ashes," "Forget Me Not" Disc Four"Last Call," "Always," "Haunted," Bonus Material

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5

1) GREAT!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I ordered this and the first season together. I love the series - I only wish it hadn't been canceled.

2) Dead like me   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I can't belive they cancelled this show. I'll never forgive showtime. Fun lighthearted look at death. If you're weird like me you might enjoy it too. Great characters. When is season THREE coming out I've been waiting for years now. Bummer.

3) A tragedy this show was cancelled   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This show was awesome - I own both seasons on DVD and lend them out to friends routinely, who also fall in love with it. The only tragedy is that, amid studio politics, this show thought saved by Sci-Fi Network, got cancelled. Sad.

4) Excellent series - can't believe its over!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
The Dead Like Me series wasn't even on my radar until it was put on regular (non-cable) TV last month. I had never seen it, but after just one episode I was hooked! Can't believe how much I laughed out loud! I saw the second episode and couldn't wait another week for the rest so I purchased both seasons. I had people over for an insane Dead Like Me marathon evening. We had a blast! Most of my guests had never seen the series before, but all thoroughly enjoyed it. I hear there is a movie, going directly to DVD in 2008, to finish out the series since season 2 dead ends (no pun intended) into nothingness. I can't wait to see what they do, even though they have replaced one or more of the main characters. I'll have to rent that one first.

5) Rest In Peace Oh Great Show, You Were Taken From us Long Before Your Time!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
The characters of Death Like Me took a lot of people in their prime and like those characters this show did not die after becoming old and stale but while it was still young and fresh. Its abrupt cancelling took not only fans but cast and crew by surprise as well (as is evident by Jasmine Guy comments in the Dead Like Me Again special feature who was looking forward to playing Roxy for a long time to come). I guess the only positive thing we can take from the axing is that it parralleled what the show was about, the unexpected waking up and finding that something you love and looked forward to the company of is abruptly no longer with us and we will never see them again and wish we'd learnt a little bit more about them while they were still alive.The second season of Dead Like Me is funnier than the first, the first season although great had to in order to set the series in motion to deal with a lot of issues with George coming to grips the whole reaper situation and aspects such as finding her place in employment at Happy Time as well. Also her family members had to come to terms with her being gone and the inevitable tension and strains amongst them while doing so. There's still some of this in season two but with the second season the other reaper characters get to be explored in greater depth, in fact the show became more about the reaper family as a whole, rather than a show about George. This allowed a lot of funny moments such as Mason having to reap a naked old man who wouldn't leave until his funeral. Heavy drama moments as well such as Daisy dating a domestic violence control freak, Rube letting viewers in on the existence of his daughter and much more. George scenes at Happy Times were a lot funnier with her being promoted to interview clients for employers (who are just hilarious applicants) and giving an office thief his comeuppance. We also get to see the Gravelings in a lot more detail with this second season (and you can see how they and other special effects such as the death ripple were created in the special features).It is a shame this show was axed, it a very good and unique TV program. Do yourself a favour and get a copy of this and the first season while they are still reasonably priced. There is a Dead Like Me movie coming out with Ellen Muth and some of the reaper actors from this series which may give us fans some closure but although we can hope, I've never seen a series resurrected after a few years off air. I hope I'm wrong though! I really hope I'm wrong!