Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season (DVD, 4-Disc Set)

What agreat show! Of course like most great shows it has been cancelled. Smart and funny with wonderful characters and great actors.

George is a college drop out who has no idea what to do with her life. her mom gets her an interview for a job at a temp agency and on her first day of work she is killed by a toilet from outer space. George has been chosen to be a Grim Reaper. Reapers collect souls before people die and George's department is accidental deaths. The show has a recurring storyline with how her family is coping and how their lives have been since her death.

Highly recommended, this is a funny show but not screwball-funny. There is no real objectionable language and it is not gory but there are death scenes (of course). Check out the first season and you will be hooked!

One night a few months ago I was doing the usual late night rapid channel flitting when I suddenly came upon an episode of "Dead Like Me". I didn't know at the time that it was the pilot episode, but I could tell that it was an early one. I'd never seen the show before. In fact, I'm not certain that it even aired here in Canada during its initial run. Definitely not on the regular prime time networks. As I watched the episode, I quickly realized that the dialogue was sharp and witty, much like that found in other favourite shows of mine such as "Northern Exposure" and "Ed", except with the occasional F-bomb and other terms not heard during prime time. Just after each commercial break, the Showcase network flashed a warning stating that this show presented adult situations, nudity, sexuality, and strong language. Rightly so I might add. If you're a parent, make sure the little ones are fast asleep while you watch this show, otherwise you'll have a lot of 'splainin' to do. Anyway, getting back to the show, I was immediately, if not sooner, hooked. Barbed end, line and sinker. After the closing credits, I was overcome with satisfaction. Similar to a really good meal. The feeling lasted about 10 seconds, when I suddenly yearned to see more. Not wanting to wait another seven days until the next episode, I leaped to the computer, clicked on a popular online Book/Music/DVD site, and ordered a copy of season one. Sure it took 6 days to arrive, but it was well worth the wait. I gobbled up each of the 14 episodes, and then went for seconds. Since then, I've watched them all a third time, and done the same with the second season. Thank the technology gods that DVDs don't wear out. I have a feeling that the enjoyment and pure delight that this shortlived series brings to its fans will last long after I'm pushing up daisies. I'm also hoping that the creators of the show and the good folks over at that roaring lion company will compile and release a disc or two of the songs heard during the episodes. Great tunes, snappy dialogue, smiles-and-chuckles-inducing humour, thought-provoking situations, etc. What more could a TV show junkie like me ask for?

I love the weird humor of is and the new subject matter. Nothing like it anywhere.Who knew Grim Reepers could be so funny. But the F-word better not offend you or you won't like this series, it is used more often than the word "the". I found this series addicitive. I had to see them all. Unfortunely there is only 2 seasons.

I love this series. It has everything an avid tv series watcher could want. You enter the world of the grim reepers and they take you through the trials and tribulations of being undead. They have no power except for the ability to take peoples souls before they die. They have to carve out a living (whether by earning it honestly or taking it dishonestly) on their own. It is a fantastic series.

This really is a really good series, and the price drop on this in the last couple of months, make this a must have, you can pick up both season 1 and 2 for less then the first season of six feet under by hbo. only draw back get this out of the way first, very little in the way of extras, and it is on the first disc, and if your like me, i flick through everything and if you never seen the show before, the actors talk a lot about season 2, only minor complaint but this should of been put on disc four. The chemistry really gets good around the 4-5 episode, and you find yourself interested in all the characters in the show. It is a barebones box set, but at a bare bones price now, i give it two thumbs up , just wish they did more then a 14 episode season, but if it meant a decrease in quality of writing, i am fine with what i got.....watch out for graylings

I discovered Dead Like Me when a friend loaned me the first season. I watched it and immediately bought the 2nd and last season. But I didn't own the 1st! I hungered for it. Then one day, I was tooling around on eBay, found it, bid on it and won it. Yay!
The series tells the story of George, an 18 year old girl who is killed by a Mir toilet falling back to earth. She then becomes one of the 'undead,' a grim reaper whose job is to remove the souls from people who are bout to die from weird accidents. But it's not grim- it's funny- ok, the humor is a little on the black side, but they are doing people a favor so that they are not actually in their bodies when the horrible thing happens. She joins a group of other reapers who meet in a pancake house to receive their daily assignments on post-it notes from Rube (Mandy Patinkin). George (Ellen Muth) examines her life, revisits her family, adjusts to her new life, and struggles with day-to-day life finding a job and a place to live (reapers don't get paid). It's funny, well-written, well-acted. Character development is great. It's a wonderful show about people who are literally on the fringes of life.
The eBay deal was great and the seller marvelous. I'm delighted I bought it!

Why is it that all the good shows go off the air only to be replaced by crap? Dead like me was a funny and smart comedy. I guess thats the problem. I saw there is a show about cavemen coming on this fall, wow. It will more in likely stay on for years, because most of the viewing public seem to be about as smart as the cavemen. Oh well I own both seasons, so at least while the rest of the viewing public is beating their stick on the coffee table and grunting, I will be watching something that at least has a thought process.

Love the show...I didn't discover it until 2nd season so I was happy to find the first season on ebay. I liked it even more than 2nd season.

I personally think this DVD boxset is great! The show contains humor not often looked at in the light it shows it in. It puts life, after life, and death , in a new perspective. The actors make the comedy, which does not often happen. This show will keep you laughing and guessing what will happen next till the end. A very good buy, and I highly recommend it.

What a unique approach to death! No preaching, no religious hangups, no answers we really can't know, the writers did an excellent job in presenting death in a new light. It is a part of life, and that there may or may not be something afterward, unless you are one of the unlucky few who becomes a reaper! George's struggles with her death, her family's life afterwards, and being a reaper, are explored so well. I love all the characters, they are wild! Made me look around at the people around me more, even though I know it is a tv show, but hey, you never know! That's the great thing about this show. I was sorry when it got cancelled. The prices on ebay for this set are great, I'm glad to see there's still lots of interest in the show.

This is one of the only shows I have ever set through twice! EXCELLENT!
Makes a person ponder about taking advantage of each and every day we have left here on Earth.

Never received item! No response from seller! Please beware of this seller, don't waste your time on the seller.

This was a terrific, highly amusing, really interesting and very quirky series for two seasons on the Showtime Premium Channel starting in 2003 through 2004.

It's about a rather depressed 18 year old girl who calls herself "George", that suddenly loses her life when a toilet seat from a Russian satellite lands on her when the satellite breaks up on re-entering Earths atmosphere. Immediately upon her death she finds out that she's been chosen to become one of many grim reapers who roam the world, and the series follows her through her various reaping assignments and how she learns to live as one of the "Undead".

Great casting and story lines made this series a cult classic. So much so, that the calls and letters to Showtime complaining about the series cancellation finally resulted in a direct to DVD movie release in February of 2009 called "Dead Like Me-Life after Death".

Starring Ellen Muth as Georgia Lass AKA "George", Mandy Patinkin as
Rube(Boss of the Reapers), Jasmine Guy as Roxy(a meter maid/police officer reaper), Cynthia Stevenson as Joy Lass(the joyless mother of Georgia and her sister Reggie), Greg Kean as Clancy Lass(Joy Lass' hapless husband), Laura Harris as Daisy Adair (an ex-movie actress reaper), Callum Blue as Mason (a ne'er do well reaper), Christine Willis as Deloris Herbig (as in "HER BIG brown eyes", Georges' supervisor at her "Happytime" day job), and Britt McKillip as Reggie Lass(Georgia's younger sister). Other cast members include: Crystal Dahl as Crystal(the receptionist at "Happytime"), Patricia Idlette as Kiffany with a "K",(waitress at the restaurant where the reapers meet to get their daily reaping assignments from Rube), and Talia Ranger(a "Younger" version of George in flashbacks from her earlier life). Try it, you'll like it, but only if you don't mind strong language.

This is a great series about Life and Living. I liked the characters and the plots, and there are numerous subplots. Ellen Muth is an excellent young actress. I liked it so much I ordered Season Two.

I Love this series. Wish they would bring it back to TV. There has never been a show like this ever before. Can't wait to buy the next season and finish off my collection.

I watched one re-run of Dead Like Me tv show and fell in love with it! After that one show, I got on ebay and ordered the whole series! This is a dark, funny, easy watch! You can easily go through the whole set in one weekend. Would be a great winter weekend get-a-way, or hot-summer inside w/ air conditioner on ... or any weekend with time to "kill". Highly recommend it. I've watched both seasons and today ordered the 2009 movie version...wish there was more!!

i heard that it is a great Tv show. I didnt personally buy it for myself though.. but purchased it for my roomate that is desperately wanting to but the whole seasons, although she has seen all of the seasons before. So how good is the show , you decide.

This series is so great. The characters are witty and so funny. I'm so glad I bought this season. I have the entire collection and I just can't stop watching it.

i had 2nd season all ready and loved it! I had bought it from a second hand shop and I just wanted to complete my collection. I looked for the 1st season and no one had it, it had to be ordered. All the local stores wanted an arm and a leg for the first season!I wanted to find it cheap so i looked on E-Bay and found it!1it was used also but i didn't care.It was in great shape when i recieved it so i was happy!

The writing on this show is great. I love it. I oly wish they made more than 2 seasons. Maybe after the movie breaks. Everyone watch it maybe we can get the show back on.

saw some,wanted to see all. writing the rest to keep you happy,e-baY KILLED MY STORE WITH 100 PERCENT FEEDBACK.

This product was in excellent condition, still in it original seal. I didn't have a long wait to get it.

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!!! they just started showing repeats on a local channel & i started watching even though it was the 2nd season they were showing, i still got into the story-line & the character's. if you love quirky funny stuff this if for U!! i love it even better on DVD cuz they use real language ~ swearing!!! you'd say some the bad words too if you were walking in those shoes!! too bad this show isn't still in production!! it's worth watching even if this is all you're gonna get!!