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I think I’m finally coming to terms with losing Pushing Daisies. Previously, as you’ll have noted, I was in denial. I’m normally someone who makes jokes about everything, even things I probably shouldn’t. That’s just who I am. So I didn’t really notice, not right away.
Still, The Guardian has got an interesting piece today about what actually may have killed our show. And I’m curious—what do you guys think? Please share in the comments about what you think may have done it in.
And no, while I’m hoping that I’m proved wrong, I have serious doubts about Dollhouse being able to hold on either…although I’ll be DVRing every episode. 
It’s been delayed, but now Varese Sarabande are finally saying that December 23rd, 2008 is the official release date for the Pushing Daisies Season One soundtrack CD, which features not only some magnificent scoring from Jim Dooley, but also what many fans had been hoping for: extended versions of some of the fantastic musical moments from Season One. Ellen Greene and Kristin Chenoweth both specifically recorded full-length versions of “Morning Has Broken,” “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” and “Birdhouse In Your Soul” just for the purposes of this CD. Full orchestration was provided by the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra.  Obviously, it is a MUST for all Daisies fans!
Here’s the full track listing:
1. Morning Has Broken Performed by Ellen Greene (2:19)
2. Hopelessly Devoted To You Performed by Kristin Chenoweth (3:06)
3. Birdhouse In Your Soul Performed by Kristin Chenoweth and Ellen Greene (3:14)
4. Main Titles (:35)
5. Lying In The Dark (2:12)
6. Chuck’s News Flash (:48)
7. Chuck’s Swing (2:22)
8. Where’s My Briefcase? (1:22)
9. Bittersweets (3:17)
10. Pie Hole Holding (2:20)
11. Young Ned’s Dissection (1:37)
12. Homeopaths (2:35)
13. Morgue To Love (2:25)
14. Lefty Arrives (:46)
15. Jeanine Pie (3:04)
16. Poor Customer Service (1:20)
17. Plastic Kiss (1:33)
18. Wilfred Woodruff’s War (3:46)
19. Chucky Bees (1:48)
20. Jason Lucas Diamonds (1:36)
21. Happy Halloween (2:34)
22. Play-Doh Dreaming (2:19)
23. Emerson And The Bitches (2:08)
24. Waltz (1:52)
25. Park Picnic (2:51)
26. Knitt Witt (1:37)
27. Who’s Smoking? (1:31)
28. Follow The Yellow Thick Hose (2:13)
29. Institution Omnibus (2:00)
30. Olive & Alfredo (1:23)
31. Don’t Mess With The Pie Hos (3:29)
32. Death Came (2:49)
33. Victor Narrowmore (2:02)
34. Change Of Heart (2:41)
35. Hands Against The Wall (:54)
You can preorder through your favorite music store or by using the handy link to Varese Sarabande’s online store listed earlier in this post. Add this disc to your collection and make your holidays a little brighter!
Don’t forget, new episode on tonight! 
A brief explanation of the “Moment-by-Moment” concept, which is basically one girl’s viewing odyssey through a vast and strangely populated terrain of television, and her reactions therein, as she watches. Other people may or may not figure into this equation, depending entirely upon who she’s able to rope into watching these things with her. Context (where appropriate and necessary) and time points will be provided for those playing along at home; each new MBM shall be posted shortly after each new episode of Pushing Daisies has aired. I trust you all realize that spoilers will, by necessity, be involved, but just in case…now you can’t say I didn’t warn you. Also, it should be noted that the times I’m using while writing this come from DVRing each episode when it premieres, and do, as a result, include timing for commercials. Keep that in mind if you watch and read this later while viewing the DVDs when they’re released. Ready? Let’s play.Pushing Daisies, Moment-By-Moment. Season Two, Episode Seven - Robbing Hood
- 0:45 - Jim Wade, our narrator, is telling us all about the python and the rabbit…and the rabbit’s name is apparently Akbar AKBAR! Suddenly I wonder if this has anything to do with Matt Groening’s Life in Hell comics?
- 2:00 - First Chuck and then Olive come into the kitchen, survey the massive number of pies that Ned is in the process of baking, and make the same pronouncement: Ned is clearly stress-baking Sometimes, this show makes me grin my face off so hard that it almost hurts. NED STRESS-BAKES. AHAHAHAHAHA. SO DO I.
- 3:00 - Olive grabs a pie and starts to head off to Aunts Lily and Vivian’s house, talking about how gossiping with a purpose is what she does best. It’s just…so…perfect!
- 4:20 - Aunt Lily is stumbling along in her house, martini glass in hand, demanding a stronger drink than what she’s got as well as a fork for the pie Olive has brought. I haven’t talked about how much I adore Aunt Lily, but of the two, I think I like her the most. She’s all rough exterior, but I think she’s a lot like Aunt Vivian describes Dwight Dixon’s heart later in this episode…but maybe that’s why Vivian feels so protective of Aunt Lily. Maybe that’s just what she’s drawn to. Or maybe that’s how she learned to be drawn to it, by living with Aunt Lily for so long? The world may never know.
- 4:50 - Gustav Hoffer’s attorney appears.Joe: Holy crap, it’s Neelix!
- 6:20 - Mr. Neelix, Esq. makes a remark about Emerson’s tight balls. Sometimes, it’s not about the dialogue at all. Sometimes, it’s all about the facial gestures. Again, Emerson cannot be beat!
- 6:30 - Narration ensues about Gustav Hoffer’s invention of the mechanized yarn baller. You know, I was amused, but less so than I might have been if I didn’t know that such things do, in fact, exist. Which is maybe more creepy and less amusing. But still, I suppose someone had to invent them!
- 7:24 - Chuck’s got a fantastic yellow ensemble complete with matching oversized yellow-framed sunglasses when they go to revive Gustav Hoffer’s corpse. OK, if you’ve got this recorded, roll it back and take a look. The frames on Chuck’s sunglasses (which only show up for a moment) and on Hoffer’s are the same, only Hoffer’s are in black.
- 12:05 - We’re introduced to Gustav Hoffer’s widow. This is going to bother me. I know the widow’s voice, but I can’t place it. Who is she?
- 12:55 - Ned’s in the trophy room, and has just gotten his first good look around.Joe: Oh no! Ned: Oh no! Me: *laughs*
- 13:14 - We’re back with Hoffer’s widow and aha, a light bulb goes on over my head. OH YES. It’s Movie-Version Jan Brady! Seriously, I’m glad I figured that out. That’s one of those things that would bother me and then wake me up at 3am out of a dead sleep.
- 13:27 - Ned’s allegedly in the bathroom, which was his excuse for going to find the trophy room. That noise? Sounded really, really painful. Good thing Emerson covered for it with the remark about the dog.
- 14:18 - Emerson and Chuck have to explain to Ned what a key party is. That might possibly have been the most adorable thing ever.
- 16:23 - Our Robbing Hood of the title appears, as head of the Bellmen. I’m not saying he was miscast, but I do think that Nathan Fillion would have been REALLY GREAT here. Just saying.
- 17:37 - Our intrepid team has just encountered a Bellmen telemarketer in the flesh. You know, it’s actually sort of heartening in a really weird way to watch the telemarketer worm his way out of things while on the spot. Because all sorts of pictures go through your head when you’re on the phone with one of those guys. Or, at least, they go through mine. I know it’s only TV, but it’s still pretty fantastic.
- 18:50 - Vivian and Dwight are sitting on a bench in the park and Vivian is expressing the misgivings that Lily has shared about Vivian and Dwight’s budding romance. “Vanish like a puddle of gasoline in the sunshine” will now be my new favorite phrase to describe anything that vanishes. Ever.
- 20:05 - Dwight is asking Aunt Vivian more questions about Chuck’s funeral. He totally knows that Chuck is Chuck…right?
- 20:15 - Aunt Vivian has just handed Dwight the newspaper clipping from Chuck’s funeral, presumably as actually printed in the Papen County Picayune. Wait…he really didn’t know? He’s just now putting it together? That…kind of astounds me, actually. I’d seriously thought he’d planned that far ahead.
- 24:04 - Mr. Neelix, Esq is flipping out at the Pie Hole as new details of the case unravel. I’m also going to have to find a way to work “malfeasass” into a conversation, all natural-like. Pushing Daisies: good for vocabulary enrichment!
- 25:29 - Olive has just asked to be let in on the sting. Am I the only one who just pictured her in a bee suit? And no, I don’t actually blame the Betty’s Bees episode.
- 26:02 - Olive has, in fact, become a centrepiece of the sting in question, and is now seen walking purposefully into the Bellmen headquarters with Pigby on a lead in a fantastically froufy outfit. OH MY GOD SHE IS TOTALLY CHANNELING ZSA ZSA AND IT IS KIND OF FABULOUS. Kristin Chenoweth = ♥
- 28:30 - Ned and Chuck have just broken into what used to be Chuck’s old room in her aunts’ house. CHEESE LOCKER. Hee! ♥ Also, waxing rhapsodic about the “flowery overtones of Stilton.” Have I mentioned how much love I have for this show?
- 29:01 - Chuck has just revealed how very crafty she is with her tin can going to the Victrola downstairs to spy on her aunts. Joe laughed quite a bit at this, and had that look on his face that showed that he’s just as charmed as I am by this show. Which doesn’t happen often, so it’s something to treasure.
- 29:34 - Aunt Lily has just begun a sentence with the phrase, “There’s no way in Tinkerbell’s tiny buttcheeks” I’ve now watched this twice, and it’s a good thing, because I didn’t hear the whole next line after that because we were laughing too hard.
- 37:00 - We’re panning over the people currently eating at The Pie Hole. Wait…is that Crystal from Dead Like Me? Well, IMDB doesn’t seem to think so, and I can’t find a listing for her. She didn’t have a speaking role. But if it isn’t Crystal, it’s definitely a Crystal-alike.
- 46:01 - Our petite waitress, Olive, has just indulged in a round of “stress bingeing.” Oh, how many pies did she manage to eat? *camera pans out* SIX. SIX WHOLE PIES. WHOA. :O Possibly seven if that red towel on the left is covering an empty pie tin! :O
- 48:00 - Aunt Lily’s decided to visit Chuck’s grave. Now here’s an interesting twist. Since the ground’s been disturbed, if Aunt Lily decides that she wants the coffin exhumed to see whether or not Dwight stole the pocketwatch, and Chuck’s body isn’t there, she’s going to assume he had more dastardly plans afoot. So that might end up being the way Chuck manages to escape her aunts knowing the strange circumstances of her re-enlivening. Maybe? It’s a theory. I didn’t say it was a sound one.
- 57:30 - Ned and Chuck are now digging into Charles Charles’ grave. That’s something I’ve wondered for awhile, actually…and especially in this case. Since they only have a minute to talk to each person Ned brings back to life, I wonder if they ever come up with a script in advance to figure out what to say to each person? ESPECIALLY in the emotionally-fraught case of someone like Chuck’s dad. Also, this can’t end well…can it?
I haven’t seen this anywhere else yet in Daisy-land, so I’m going to post it here and hope it’s not, well, false hope…
According to this article in the Dallas News, which appeared earlier TODAY (that would be Wednesday, the 26th of November, 2008—well after the show was officially marked “canceled”), Beth Grant (a character actress best known to Fuller-ites as Mary Ann Marie Beetle from Wonderfalls) apparently attended a Black Tie Dinner event two days after that announcement had been made and mentioned that she’d just gotten off the phone with Bryan Fuller, who said the series was not, in fact, canceled.
It’s a bit like telephone, I know. And the call might have dropped out in places, so we’re only hearing what we want to. But it can’t hurt to try to drum up as much support for the remaining episodes that they’ve got left to air this season, can it? Especially with the Move Pushing Daisies campaign now in full swing. If enough viewers show that there IS good reason for Warner Brothers to shop this show around, maybe we can make it happen. It’s worked for quite a few other shows, so it’s not like it’s without precedent.
If you’re new to Pushing Daisies and are considering tentatively dipping your toe in the pond and tuning in tonight, please watch this handy promo video that ABC put together before the start of season two. It’ll catch you up on MOST of what’s happened…although quite a lot has happened already in the six episodes since season two started. Context may be able to help you while you watch tonight…as long as you watch this first. And if you have any questions about what you’ve missed between this video and tonight’s episode, I’ll be happy to answer them!
If the title describes you, you might be interested to know that The Piemaker is having a contest where you can win a copy of Kristin Chenoweth’s new holiday CD, “A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas.”
Go on, make your holidays a little brighter! Before you start gorging on pie this Thursday, only because it’s much harder to operate your mouse while you’re in a food coma. Many scientific studies have been very conclusive on this very fact.
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My sister is, on the whole, a much more dedicated listmaker than I am. She’s the more methodical of the two of us, whereas I’m the one more likely to go off on a rambling tirade that may be of possible amusement to some, but general and overall confusion to others. Because that’s the case, I’m snagging a page out of her book (no, really; she’s gonna be upset since it was spiral-bound and didn’t tear away neatly and there’s that nasty little papery bit that’s stuck inside the spiral and littering up the whole thing irrevocably now) and drawing up a list.
Without further ado, here you are. It should also be noted that I’m not putting these in any particular order, despite the fact that I’m numbering the list. Mainly I’m numbering it because without numbered lists, sometimes my counting is off and I end up with eleven…teen. Yes.
- The cleverness of the dialogue. It seems obvious, but it cannot be overstated enough. Some people have noted comparisons between this and one of Bryan Fuller’s earlier series, Dead Like Me. However, I think it’s much more apt to draw the comparison to the rapid-fire dialogue often exchanged between characters in the similarly short-lived Wonderfalls…although, to be honest, the latter didn’t seem as immediately comfortable in its own skin as Pushing Daisies did. Perhaps that’s as it should be, though; as anyone writes, hopefully they evolve, and if that’s as much the case here, I’m simultaneously excited and terrified to see where Fuller will take us next. And also whether or not we’ll be able to keep up.
- ‘Daisies’ was never afraid to let its geek flag flutter proudly. As Nivair H. Gabriel points out in this article, although PD will ultimately be short-lived, there’s an awful lot of geek shouting out crammed into an awfully small amount of space. And yet, at the same time, it was all-inclusive fun. If you didn’t get the references, maybe you wouldn’t have been as amused, it’s true—but neither would you have been made to feel like a petty object of derision because you weren’t in on the joke. Pushing Daisies was (and is) that rarest of shows: one with something for everyone, and yet utterly true to itself and pandering to no one.
- Emerson Cod. Previously, I’ve stated that my favorite character in anything ever is probably Lara Means from Millennium. Those who know me know that I don’t get particularly attached to shows or to characters very often. Emerson Cod satisfies some level of amusement deep inside my soul like no other character ever has. I have three words for you in explanation: knitted gun cozies.
- The untenable adorability of Ned and Chuck. Every relationship has its obstacles, and it’s true that in almost every one, there are bound to be times when one partner or the other will feel that they can’t get through. Like they can’t touch the other person, for whatever reason. And then there’s Ned and Chuck, who really can’t touch each other. But they find ways anyway, and it’s those infinitely creative ways they find around the pink hand-knit undead elephant in the room that make their relationship so charming and sweet. Besides, everyone knows beekeeping accoutrements are the new lingerie!
- Olive, Unrequited. Oh, poor Olive. Adorable, charming, pushy…sometimes adorably and charmingly pushy, even. This show is all about wanting what you can’t have, and nowhere is it more obvious than with the fantasticness that is Olive Snook. What’s even more impressive is that she finally makes the realization that she can’t go on torturing herself the way she has, and that she should really get over Ned, because he’s obviously not interested in her in the way she’d like. A lot of characters (and even some real-life people) could learn a lot from her.
- Who needs a special musical episode when you’ve got a song in your heart all the time? Other shows have had The Musical Episode, to varying effectiveness. I was just watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Once More, With Feeling” again a short while ago and reminiscing on all the things I loved (and still love) about it. But Pushing Daisies recognizes the fact that sooner or later, everyone is tempted to burst forth into song. Everyone’s got their own personal soundtrack going on inside their heads, ready to burst forth at any minute. Even if you don’t normally count yourself as a fan of the musical genre on the whole—which I don’t. Random self-musical insert into everyday life? Big checkmark here.
- It’s all about color. It’s almost like the difference between watching old Technicolor processed films and watching more normally-processed color films. All the stylistic choices involved in the making of Pushing Daisies are eye-poppingly gorgeous, almost to the point where you feel as though you’re gorging yourself just by drinking it all in. It’s eye candy in the best sense of the phrase.
- The costumes! This follows on from my last number, I suspect, and there is definitely some overlap there. And yes, Chuck’s dresses are a good chunk of this love…but really, EVERYONE is dressed exceedingly well. And by “well,” I don’t mean “I want to look like everyone on this show,” (well, I wouldn’t mind Chuck’s wardrobe, except I look nothing like her, but it is gorgeous) but “well” as in “incredibly well-suited to each character and the overall fabric of the show in general.”
- Listening to the cast talk about the show is highly entertaining. OK, I know it’s expected that actors will speak well of whatever they’re currently working on, and PD isn’t wholly unique in this. But in interview after interview, watching/listening to the actors and hearing their insights into their characters is incredibly charming and entertaining. Maybe not as much as the show itself, but a close second. For me, getting a glimpse at what’s going on inside anyone’s creative process is its own sort of gleefully addictive substance.
- The utter uniqueness of its being. Perhaps I’m belaboring the point here, having pointed out individual aspects that add up to this particular conclusion throughout this list, but it’s completely true: if you add up all the aspects of the show that I’ve pointed out so far, there really has never been anything quite like it on television, or in any other medium. To that end, it serves as a sort of joyful blast in the face of the sort of cynicism that says “everything’s already been done.” Because clearly? It hasn’t. It may be more difficult both on the parts of those involved in the creative process and on the parts of the audience, but reaching for creativity is, ultimately, worth it. Despite the fact the show’s now been cancelled. It’s still an incredibly strong and artistic statement, and that alone is heartening in itself.
Kristin Dos Santos at E!Online spoke exclusively with Bryan Fuller yesterday, where he revealed that ABC has officially canceled Pushing Daisies, but does plan to air the remaining episodes they’ve completed at this point.
An earlier posting of this article also quoted Fuller talking about wrapping up the remaining storylines in a comic book deal with DC, as well as the possibility of doing a movie, which has been brought up before. The current incarnation of this article, as of this blog posting, has Kristin Chenoweth saying she’d absolutely love to do a movie if Bryan Fuller wants to do it.
However, if recent history has shown us anything, it’s this: just because a TV show has been canceled by a network doesn’t mean that it’s completely dead. It could just need a change of network. To that end, the fine folks over at Pushingdaisies-TV.com have started the Move Pushing Daisies campaign, encouraging all fans to let Warner Brothers know how they feel about the cancellation, and to encourage them to move the show.
You can also use Warner Brothers’ online comment form as well.
Let’s show WB that Ned’s got enough magic left to bring his own show back to life, OK?
A brief explanation of the “Moment-by-Moment” concept, which is basically one girl’s viewing odyssey through a vast and strangely populated terrain of television, and her reactions therein, as she watches. Other people may or may not figure into this equation, depending entirely upon who she’s able to rope into watching these things with her. Context (where appropriate and necessary) and time points will be provided for those playing along at home; each new MBM shall be posted shortly after each new episode of Pushing Daisies has aired. I trust you all realize that spoilers will, by necessity, be involved, but just in case…now you can’t say I didn’t warn you. Also, it should be noted that the times I’m using while writing this come from DVRing each episode when it premieres, and do, as a result, include timing for commercials. Keep that in mind if you watch and read this later while viewing the DVDs when they’re released. Ready? Let’s play.
Pushing Daisies, Moment-By-Moment. Season Two, Episode Six - Oh, Oh, Oh…It’s Magic
- 2:45 - I would so pay to see Monster Trucks on Ice.
- 3:00 - Emerson, in a high-pitched, girly voice, “A magic show?!?! Where did I put that rat’s ass I could give?”Oh, Emerson. I love you more with each passing episode, and every time, I think to myself that I can’t possibly love you more. Even though I know I totally will next week.
- 3:15 - AHA. Cherry Rhubarb Crumble, is it? Strictly speaking, that doesn’t look like a crumble…it’s too composed. Still, keeping in mind for a moment some recent observations I had about the nature of pie as a concept, it’s well within bounds. A recipe will follow in the next post…though of course I can’t guarantee that it’s their recipe. But if you want to bake along at home, you’ll be well set!
- 4:50 - The twins are trying to entice Emerson, Ned, Chuck, and Olive to come see them do their magic show and have just produced tickets in a trick involving the aforementioned cherry rhubarb crumble. Everyone seems interested except Ned, who has deep-seated psychological issues with magic but is trying to tamp them down and be polite. The boys finally get to him, and ask whether he’ll be there or not.Wait…was that “brere” or “frere” Piemaker? Laugh all you like, but if it’s “frere,” that explains some things!
- 5:15 - In order, from left to right: Emerson, Olive, Chuck, and Ned are ranged around a table at Two for the Show’s performance. Everyone is dressed rather nicely.Joe (longtime PD viewing accomplice): Chuck should be wearing those gloves. *nods toward Olive*
- 5:20 - Ned’s upset about Maurice and Ralston dredging up his childhood trauma, and gratefully takes a lozenge from Olive to help settle his magically-stress-induced acid reflux. Emerson seems to understand about not being able to become brothers overnight, and Ned takes the ball and runs with it.AHA. Ned said “frere”! He’s not that much older than the boys, is he? I don’t think so. I sense impending issues…
- 5:40 - Aunt Lily is sitting by the phone with her cockatiel nearby and her martini glass in hand.Joe: Wait, did you see that?
Me: See what?
Joe: *rolls back the recording* THAT.
Me: *stares at the cockatiel drinking from the martini glass while Joe laughs hysterically* Oh. THAT.
- 8:15 - The Great Herrmann is explaining about Cementia, after having dragged Emerson up onstage in order to quell any heckling that the act might otherwise generate from him, having been informed that he might heckle beforehand.I can’t decide whether I’d be amused or disturbed to see someone name their child “Cementia,” but for some reason, I can visualize it happening.
- 8:35 - Cementia is underway, and The Great Herrmann’s lovely redheaded assistant is showboating for the audience.Wait…is that The Former Mrs. Laupin? From Viva Variety? *checks later and adds links because yes, it is!*
- 14:10 - Emerson and The Great Herrmann (”Call me ‘Great.’” “NO.”) are haggling over whether or not Emerson will help find who killed all his animal assistants.Have I mentioned that I love a character who can seamlessly integrate the word “prestidigitating” into his everyday speech? Because I do. ♥
- 14:45 - The Great Herrmann: “Now, if you’ll excuse me, the county bridge-and-tunnel folk have arrived…for the nine o’clock.”
Has anyone tried to place Coeur de Couers on a map? Because the kneejerk reaction is to think it’s somewhere near New Jersey, which I’d never really thought before. Hrrm.
- 16:05 - Dwight Dixon has just appeared at Aunts Lily and Vivian’s door.Joe: Is that Milton from Office Space?
Me: *grabs phone and goes to look*
Joe: Can you please wait till the episode is over?
Me: Oh, you’re right. Sorry. *looks later and fills in the links*
- 26:01 - Ned is promising Maurice and Ralston that he’ll kick the ass of whoever killed their “next-best-thing Magic Dad.”There it is again! “Frere” Piemaker! THEY WERE NEVER LOOKING FOR A BROTHER, I TELL YOU! And why should they be, when they’ve got each other?
- 32:55 - We’re flashing back to when Maurice and Ralston’s dad left them at Herman Gant’s Magical Express, and we’re seeing the whole trick over as dad disappears.This makes it seem like The Great Herrmann was in on the whole thing, doesn’t it?
- 35:32 - Our intrepid team is “using metal detectors to detect the metal shackles worn by the Great Herrmann.”Because that’s going to be the only metal in the place? That’s hardly a reasonable assumption.
- 43:57 - After the revelation of the missing magnets from The Great Herrmann’s shoes, Chuck recalls that the Geek had apparently swallowed magnets. Emerson: “So what?” Chuck: “Sew BUTTONS.”I never in a million years thought I’d hear someone say that on TV. *is highly amused*
- 49:07 - The Geek has taken Olive hostage and is using her as a human shield, the effectiveness of which is questioned severely by Emerson Cod. He’s threatening to use the pearl-handled pistol he allegedly swallowed and is, even at this moment, cocking with his stomach muscles. Olive mentions that she hears a clicking, but then realizes it’s actually a ticking…like a watch.Now there’s a thought. Is this going to turn out to be the pocket watch that Dwight Dixon is searching for? The one that was apparently buried with Chuck?
- 52:52 - Olive is inside Lily and Vivian’s house, and Vivian has just gone to bed, leaving Lily alone to talk with Olive. Chuck is apparently communicating with Olive via some secret means which Ned has devised, so that Olive can be Chuck’s conversation-proxy with Aunt Lily.I’m VERY curious to know how and why Olive agreed to do this, since she still thinks Chuck was never dead in the first place and had merely faked her death for some mysterious and selfish reasons. Agreeing to try to keep unnecessary drama from occurring at The Pie Hole by having the aunts and Chuck meet accidentally is one thing, but this? Maybe it’s her genuine affection for Lily and Vivian, and wanting to not see them get hurt? I also worry that Aunt Vivian isn’t really asleep, and is overhearing the whole conversation.
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