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Dead Like Me is a Showtime television comedy-drama created by Bryan Fuller about a group of grim reapers in Seattle, Washington. The series stars Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin.

Eighteen-year-old Georgia "George" Lass (played by Muth) serves as the show's protagonist and narrator. Early in the pilot episode, she dies, leaving her parents and younger sister behind at a point when her relationships with them were all on shaky ground for varying youthful reasons. She is tapped to become one of the "undead", a grim reaper. She soon learns that a reaper's job is to remove the souls of people, preferably right before they die, and escort them until they move on into their afterlife. The show explores the "lives" and experiences of a small team of such reapers — a team led by Rube (played by Patinkin) — as well as the post-mortem changes in George and George's family as they deal with George's untimely passing.

Fuller, the show's creator, left early to co-create Wonderfalls; the creative direction of the show was taken over by executive producer John Masius.

The show premiered in North America on June 27, 2003; the second season began airing in the summer of 2004. The show was one of the few high definition TV productions at the time. Season 1 has also been shown on Sky One in Ireland and the United Kingdom, America Plus in the Middle East, Sony in Latin America, Catch On in South Korea and Fox8 in Australia. The series was also aired in Croatia and on Showcase in Canada (in both English and French).

As of January 2006, Swedish SVT2 has started rerunning the series. It has also been confirmed to be one of the starting line-up shows for Channel 6 in Ireland, which begins broadcasting on 30 March.

Cast

George is part of a team of reapers headed by Rube (played by Mandy Patinkin), and including Mason (Callum Blue), and Roxy (Jasmine Guy). For the first five episodes the team also includes Betty (Rebecca Gayheart); after Betty's departure, her position in the team is taken over by Daisy (played by Laura Harris).

George's family also have prominent roles in the series:

mother Joy (played by Cynthia Stevenson)
father Clancy (Greg Kean)
younger sister Reggie (Britt McKillip)

Other cast members playing those among the living include Christine Willes, who portrays Delores Herbig, and Crystal Dahl, portraying Crystal Smith. Both work at Happy Time, a temp service.

Grim reapers

Grim reapers, portrayed without the traditional black cloak and scythe, are an integral part of the cycle of life and death. They remove the souls of the living shortly before death and escort them until they move on into their afterlife.

Death has a list of who is scheduled to die and when. The foreman gets the list, transcribes certain information to a yellow Post-it note (first initial and last name of the person, where they are to die, and their estimated time of death), and assigns them to the reapers; this assignment is non-transferable — only that reaper can remove that soul. That person must be reaped at the time of their intended death, or the soul will "wither and die and rot inside" them. Reapers collect souls until they reach a quota, though they do not know in advance what their quota is. Once that quota is reached, the reaper moves on and the newly collected soul takes his or her place.

Reapers have a physical body and may interact with the living and the dead. They do not age, but reapers cannot fly, disappear or walk through walls, so they need to find their reap by conventional means of transportation. In fact, the only real power besides collecting souls is an ability to heal quickly, allowing a quick recovery from any physical harm incurred on the job. Reapers also have the same emotional needs and drives as living humans.

To remove a soul, a reaper must touch the body. When possible, the touch is done before death to minimize emotional harm to the soul, especially in cases of violent death. After death, the soul sometimes exists for a short time as a ghost. These ghosts retain the physical image of the being as it was reaped. If reaped before death, the ghost does not show any injuries suffered during death and usually doesn't remember dying. Souls reaped after death often manifest wounds corresponding to the manner of their deaths and may be heavily traumatized by the experience. (A soul cannot leave its body without being reaped. If the Reaper doesn't take it, it is trapped in a corpse, completely aware. This is as horrific as it sounds, especially when the deceased goes through an autopsy.) Ghosts cannot communicate directly with the living, only with and through the undead reapers. The passage into the afterlife is shown as a brightly lit scene towards which the newly-deceased is drawn. The portal/scene is unique to each soul: for a child, it may be a wonderful carnival, but for an yoga master, it may be a Deva beckoning from within a Divine Lotus. Souls cannot be forced to enter the portals and can be downright stubborn about it if they feel it is not yet time for them to move on. A big part of the Reapers' job is to convince such souls to do so.

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