Many people really don't think about the messages and what the story of a TV shows means, maybe because 99% of the shows that people watch are empty. TV shows that presents doctors that only talks about sex ,Geeks that only talk about "real" relationships and sex, the life of a group of Upper East Side teenagers in a big city ....oh yes they have sex. I can name many other shows that are all the same just with different actors and different names.
Pushing Daisies was among the few TV shows that had a message. The whole show is a sort of metaphor or allegory for pure, eternal, faithful and undying LOVE. The question is: Are you capable of loving someone after he or she is gone?, when there is a big distance between lovers, can love survive?, when there’s and absence of physical affection is it worth loving that person?.
As every fan of PD knows, Ned (the pie maker) has the ability to bring dead people and things back to life. Ned had a complex life but it's a simple man, a hopeless romantic ....the show doesn't talk or show any of his previous relationships, but probably he didn't had any meaningful relationships before Chuck ( The Lonely Tourist ). I believe that Ned was obsessed with Chuck (who represents the idea of what love is supposed to be) because, she was the only person in Ned’s life who knew what It meant to lose someone and felt, lonely.
The shows often talks about Ned’s childhood, which is similar to Chuck’s youth. They both had a good life overall, but they were trapped in different ways. Ned wasen’t supposed to get out of the Longborough School for Boys but he escapes and Chuck had the option of leaving her aunt’s house but she never did, until her fatal trip.
In this show the thing that keeps Ned and Chuck physically separated is his gift. This gift (touching the dead and bringing them back to life) represents distance, time and place, the 3 big elements that defines most of the time the fate of a relationship.
-Distance: When the lovers are apart, when they live in different cities, countries or even continents.
-Time: The years, months, weeks, days, hours and minutes they spent apart or together. When distance is not a problem, time they spent apart is, or the other way around. And when there is no distance, time is ticking away…”will we marry? When? Will we move in together? When? How long will this last?” Or the relationship last too long and the lovers get sick of each other.
-Place: In this case it means the psychological state of mind of the person, the place of their lifes they think they are, such as: personal situation, employment status, economic status, maturity, etc.
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Ned and Chuck only “problem” is that they can’t touch, they can’t show their affection in an obvious way: Holding hands,hugs,kissing, and sex. The show asks the viewers: Is it possible to love someone you can’t touch? Can love last through time? Or are you so desperate for physical affection that you are capable of losing the love of your life because of the lack of it? Nowadays, there are many people who choose sex over love, but they pay a bigger price, they will never be sure that someone loves them because of what they are or because of what they get from them in bed.
-The satisfaction of sex lasts a few minutes, the satisfaction of having and feeling true love lasts a lifetime.
When I think about romance, now I think about Ned opening Chuck’s coffin at the graveyard, literally returning Chuck to the world of the living.
Pushing daisies is a forensic fairy tale, which is full of romanticism and melancholy for the past and the things that are and can never be. Is a show that is feast to the eyes! Colors and combinations, a perfect aesthetic that plays with somber and dismal issues in a world where love is worth waiting for ( Charlotte and Ned see each other after 20 years), worth sacrifice for and it’s worth dying and returning to life for.
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