{"id":6219,"date":"2015-04-30T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2020-10-17T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T14:23:07","slug":"dead-like-me-life-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/dead-like-me-life-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Like Me: Life After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} <strong>Dead Like Me: Life After Death<\/strong>, aired in 2009<\/p>\n<p>Rube has passed on, and the grim reapers have a new boss. Instead of post-it notes they now have cell phones. George has gotten better at both of her jobs. Meanwhile Joy has written a book and helps grieving families, and Reggie is learning to drive. This movie was shot 5 years after the series. Recasting Daisy was a mistake &#8212; they should have created a new character instead. Apart from that and the absence of Rube, fans of the series will like this movie. There are no loose ends to wrap up from the series &#8212; it&#8217;s more of a &#8220;more adventures with friends&#8221; show.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Stephen Herek (<strong>Mr. Holland&#8217;s Opus<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/into-the-woods\/\">season 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} Dead Like Me: Life After Death, aired in 2009 Rube has passed on, and the grim reapers have a new boss. Instead of post-it notes they now have cell phones. George has gotten better at both of her jobs. Meanwhile Joy has written a book and helps grieving families, and Reggie is learning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16671,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/16671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}