# Dead Like Me

**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686
**Category:** Art, Music, and Entertainment
**Created:** [January 25, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686 "2006-01-25T04:32:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Gobbo](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/gobbo/32/298_2.png) [@Gobbo](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Gobbo)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686/1 "2006-01-25T04:32:51Z")

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I don’t want to sound repetitive, as I often rave about Six Feet Under, but the show ‘Dead Like Me’ is another gem that gets completely overlooked when talking about the few ‘good’ shows on tv.

Yeah Sopranos is good, but these two are better.

Dead Like Me’s storyline consists of following the lives of several grim reapers who take the lives of people before they die. The reapers are just like anyone else, they have to work, they get paid nothing for taking the souls of the people they learn about via small post its handed to them from their boss. The other half of the story centers around Georgia (the main character)'s family, who copes with her own recent death in their own ways. Georgia also works at a giant corporation in a cubicle enviroment, this helps with some of the satire as it is a very telling enviroment.

By Juxtaposing the “dead” with different life situations, and alot of talk of ‘looking back’ gives the viewer a very powerful feeling of ‘But I am alive… I am here right now’. Every person that dies is in a bizarro accidental way, it makes you realize just how fragile life is, and why we should live it up according to our own standards… the objectivity you would have if you were dead, watching your alive self is a powerful tool, and the fact that the show can pull it off with philosophical ease, as well as maintaining the satircal comedy is genius.

“Life can be Boring, Death is anything but”

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### Author: ![Gobbo](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/gobbo/32/298_2.png) [@Gobbo](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Gobbo)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 9:09am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686/2 "2006-01-26T09:09:32Z")

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ps

can someone move this to the review section?

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### Author: ![someoneisatthedoor](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@someoneisatthedoor](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/someoneisatthedoor)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686/3 "2006-01-26T11:09:50Z")

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Voila!

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### Author: ![gecota](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/gecota/32/335_2.png) [@gecota](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/gecota)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686/4 "2006-01-27T23:04:36Z")

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Hey someone else who like “Dead Like Me” that show is awesome 😃

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### Author: ![soph](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/soph/32/336_2.png) [@soph](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/soph)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686/5 "2006-08-03T22:43:37Z")

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R.I.P. dead like me. it got axed. someone give me a post-it and i’ll bring it back to life. george was a great girl, and the british guy was fit. sniff. xx

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### Author: ![gecota](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/gecota/32/335_2.png) [@gecota](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/gecota)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686/6 "2006-08-04T13:12:09Z")

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At least it’s being reaired on Sci-fi Channel.

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### Author: ![soph](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/soph/32/336_2.png) [@soph](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/soph)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/dead-like-me/8686/7 "2006-08-05T20:25:04Z")

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i possess no sci-fi channel. only got shitty free view = the worst channels, free. they should put it on BBC1 instead.

xx
