| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
Pushing Daisies deserves its high praise. It's the best new drama of the fall, finding sweet hope in morbid tragedy. |
| 100 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Pushing Daisies is a delicate, rapturously original little television miracle. |
| 100 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Pushing Daisies is by far the best new series of the fall season. |
| 100 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Pushing Daisies is perfect. |
| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It's a gloriously visual fairy tale full of saturated colors and whimsical stories, the kind of romantic comedy/whodunit that should, by rights, captivate a nation starved for quirkiness and delight. |
| 100 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Solid gold from top to bottom, the cast is almost an embarrassment of riches. |
| 91 |
Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale
The hour balances its caper-cartoon and ghoulish sensibilities with a crisp pace and well-cast leads. |
| 90 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
It's the best-looking pilot of the season--maybe the best new show, period--even though it may not look that good in the future. |
| 90 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
I wouldn't want to miss a word. |
| 90 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
This may be one of the most beautifully crafted and original TV shows ever to get fall consideration on a big network. |
| 90 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Standing head and shoulders above this fall's other seedlings. |
| 90 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
The lovingly and imaginatively produced pilot has to be the most gorgeous piece of television airing anywhere tonight. |
| 90 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
This Technicolored kaleidoscope fable of life, love and perpetual whimsy restores my faith in TV's ability to amuse, enchant and entertain with endless invention and eye-popping style. |
| 90 |
Slate Troy Patterson
It's a breath of fresh air even for those of us who find our allergies stimulated by the countless particles of whimsy suspended in its thick atmosphere. |
| 80 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
It's a whimsical, romantically inventive and darkly funny pop-up hour about a man (Lee Pace) whose touch can bring the dead back to life (but also, yikes, vice versa). |
| 80 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
With snappy writing, stunning art direction and a great cast, this really is the new show you don't want to miss. |
| 80 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
Daisies is something you shouldn't miss, particularly if you're looking for something different on TV. |
| 80 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
All the praise heaped on Pushing Daisies, and every declaration about the dramedy's originality, is merited. |
| 80 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The story of Ned (Lee Pace), a young man who can bring the dead back to life, is sweetly odd, but also oddly charming. |
| 80 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Pushing Daisies captivates with an emotionally resonant story and dazzles with its bright visual imagery. Fans of delightfully daft fairy tales, this one's for you. |
| 80 |
Newsday Diane Werts
On top of the stars' subtlety and Fuller's verbal wit, Sonnenfeld's pilot direction ladles layers of flashy frosting--theatrical camera angles, emphatic zooms, intensified color and those heavyhanded moments when the narration can't quite straddle the sap line. |
| 80 |
Baltimore Sun David Zurawik
At its best--during several moments of exquisite longing between the adult Ned and Chuck--Pushing Daisies feels so right that it almost redeems all the wrongs of such wretched new series as Cavemen or Carpoolers. |
| 80 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Pushing Daisies is good, as well as distinctive. |
| 80 |
Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
As charming as all that is amid the macabre, Pushing Daisies is a show that only a grown-up can fully enjoy. |
| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The series, from creators Bryan Fuller and Barry Sonnenfeld, is a masterful mixture of life, romance, optimism and youthful exuberance, all played out under the threat of instant death. |
| 80 |
New York Magazine John Leonard
Pushing Daisies will drive you crazy or make you smile. |
| 80 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
It’s definitely not the same-old same-old, for which ABC is to be congratulated. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
It is all very beautiful. |
| 70 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Despite the fine work of Pace and Friel--who convey tenderness despite the director’s efforts to stamp it out--the sheer quantity of forced whimsy and visual razzle-dazzle can be exhausting. |
| 63 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Pushing Daisies is fanciful and fun, but sometimes pushes the daisies too hard. |
