My overall rating of "Dead like me"'s Season 1: 7/10.
The main plotline is pretty great: it is comedic, but also thoughtful, and gives us a bit more worldbuilding still. Mary Kate is a very fun character, although a bit of a cliche. Her walking into the lights was absolutely beautiful.
The writing did feel a bit inelegant at times, however. Daisy gives Rube a cause for suspicion a bit too easily; I didn't particularly like the type of "closure" that Rube gives Roxy (and her whole plotline is a bit questionable); and while the end scene of George sailing is beautiful, I'm not sure what it's supposed to depict - is it a far-ish future, when George has settled her financial difficulties and taken up sailing? She seems to have some skill handling a rather large sailboat, and travelling pretty sharply to the wind - I don't know whether it takes a lot (or any) money to join up an adult yacht-club in the US Northwest, but she's surely spent some time at it, which doesn't really gel with the following episodes and her story at the moment.
The main plotline is pretty great: it is comedic, but also thoughtful, and gives us a bit more worldbuilding still. Mary Kate is a very fun character, although a bit of a cliche. Her walking into the lights was absolutely beautiful.
The writing did feel a bit inelegant at times, however. Daisy gives Rube a cause for suspicion a bit too easily; I didn't particularly like the type of "closure" that Rube gives Roxy (and her whole plotline is a bit questionable); and while the end scene of George sailing is beautiful, I'm not sure what it's supposed to depict - is it a far-ish future, when George has settled her financial difficulties and taken up sailing? She seems to have some skill handling a rather large sailboat, and travelling pretty sharply to the wind - I don't know whether it takes a lot (or any) money to join up an adult yacht-club in the US Northwest, but she's surely spent some time at it, which doesn't really gel with the following episodes and her story at the moment.
