Dead Like Me - The Complete First Season (2003)

Pay cable's "other"show about life and death, Dead Like Me takes a darkly comic look at mortality through the eyes of someone stuck between this life and the afterlife. "Bail bondsmen for the disembodied" is how Rube (Mandy Patinkin), the often exasperated Reaper foreman, explains it to disaffected 18-year-old George (Ellen Muth) after she’s vaporized by a falling toilet seat from the Mir space station and drafted into the ranks of the Reapers.

Dead Like Me puts a light touch on black comedy, but it has a sneaky way of using humor to explore loss, loneliness, and regret, as well as kindness, and courage, and responsibility. George gets a hard lesson when she tries to wriggle out of her assignments like some overgrown kid, only to see the damage of her (in)action in "Reapercussions." And as George's angry, tightly-wound mother (Cynthia Stevenson) and withdrawn little sister Reggie cope with death, she breaks the rules to watch over them: their own pouty, glum guardian angel. There's nothing like your own death to put your life into perspective......

Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, Box set, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 4
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Release Date: June 15, 2004
Run Time: 627 minutes