Dead Like Me

I think part of why I'm enjoying Dead Like Me so much is that I can relate to the main character. When she dies she's a virgin who has never had a boyfriend, her relationship with her mother is combative, she drops out of college and she lives her life on the periphery, trying not to be noticed, her nose buried in a book. That was me at about the same age. That's why I find the idea of you having a mohawk as a kid so interesting. It's the exact opposite of anything I would have done as a teenager. I didn't ever want to be noticed.

This show is strangely reassuring to me. I understand it's fiction but it speaks of a greater truth that I have faith in. While the subject matter is life and death it never delves into any particular religious beliefs, and maybe that's what I like so much. There's no God picking and choosing, shooing away gays and suicides and a-holes. Everybody dies and everybody's soul gets to go into the lights.

I like their version of God better than the Bible's. Their God looks more like the God I pray to. And my God isn't a bouncer at a club kicking people out because of their sexual orientation or because they suffered so much emotionally in life that death seemed a better alternative.