25 Best Fantasy TV Series, Ranked Worst to First
By Shawn Lealos
13. Pushing Daisies
Bryan Fuller has proven to be a master when it comes to creative television. While his most successful TV show was a horror outing with Hannibal, he has done masterful work in the fantasy TV genre. Fuller created Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies and American Gods. Two of those shows made this list, and the first is Pushing Daisies.
Lee Pace stars as Ned, a piemaker who can bring anyone back from the dead by touching them. However, if he touches them a second time, they die again for good. There is a love story that can never happen because he brings his true love, Chuck, back from the dead, but he can now never touch her again, or she would die for good.
Pushing Daisies also introduced the world to the charming and hilarious Kristen Chenoweth, who starred as Olivia Snook. The series was set up as a procedural as the piemaker, and his friends set out to solve murders, usually involving Ned bringing the dead back to life long enough to pick up clues on who killed them.
Pushing Daisies lasted only two seasons and 22 episodes. However, don’t let the lack of seasons deter you. In those two seasons, Pushing Daisies picked up 17 Primetime Emmy nominations and won seven of them.