TV, Interrupted: The Anti-Work Existentialism Of Dead Like Me Was An Omen

(Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.)At 18 years old, “Dead Like Me” protagonist George Lass doesn’t know who she wants to be, or even if she wants to be.

But she’s told in no uncertain terms by her mother what she’s supposed to do: “You will get up, and go to work.

You will collect a paycheck, and move out of this house.”A few hours of sucky temp work in an office basement later, George is dead — struck by…The post TV, Interrupted: The Anti-Work Existentialism of Dead Like Me Was An Omen appeared first on /Film.

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