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Pushing Daises is done. The final episode has aired now in the UK, even if it hasn’t aired here in the States yet. Do you miss it? In a word, I don’t.

On the good side, it was different. A lot of the top shows are so similar, and this show was different. I grant that that might be good in and of itself.

But the apparent sense of insight from listing amounts of time in accuracy up to the second; the repeated use of “The facts were these” as our narrator’s segue; and the very fact that the narrator has a British accent: all these actually give a false sense of insight. All these turn off the thoughtful viewer. And so many scenes are painfully created in a way that is very far from reality. A strange and unholy blend of attempts to be very real and yet very false in the above, in casting, in art design and color, in dialog, etc. This is why it never really worked for me. Also, it’s a little too copycat if you’ve seen a certain extremely famous French movie. Also, the cartoon voice of Ms. Chenoweth (and some guest actors) is a little too, well, cartoony. Also, the new veneers and reworked bangs that Anna Friel has started wearing strike me as contrived. Also, the preposterous setup of lovers that can never touch — that’s going nowhere unless they jump the shark.

Okay, enough. Did you love it? Tell me why. I’m listening.

There’s a very successful voiceover guy out there who consistently and egregiously mispronounces the word authentic. He says, more or less, “uhthentic.” It’s pretty horrible.

This raises some questions:

1. Where is he from? Ans: Possibly Chicago.
1a. If indeed Chicago: Do lots of Chicagoans misspeak thus?
2. If a major talent can butcher the language, does this bode well for lowly me, who must also butcher certain sounds due to my sheltered upbringing?
2a. If yes: Why don’t I feel better about this?
2b. If no: Is that because my regionalisms don’t count as much because I come from a place that’s less populated?

In all, I really don’t care about these Q’s & A’s as much as I want him to stop mispronouncing that word on his prominent web site slash podcast thingies. Et’s pritty harrible.