And you know who you can love?
Bryan Fuller. The writer/producer is best known for Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, and most recently Hannibal, "which is why he is the greatest human ever" (Oonagh Kligman). He created two of the best screwed-over-by-their-network shows (the top five being Firefly, Arrested Development, My So-Called Life, and of course Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me. Obviously) and really struck gold when he adapted the Thomas Harris book series into a critically-acclaimed prime-time series. What's great about all of Fuller's shows is that they all - according to fans - take place in the same universe: easter eggs and overlapping characters and tropes provide this theory and avid fans stick with it because if all the shows taking place in the same universe isn't the coolest thing, I don't know what is. Fuller is a mastermind at making sci-fi and fantasy shows that are not quite sci-fi and fantasy shows: when you watch Dead Like Me or Pushing Daisies, the fact that the main characters, respectively, kill and bring back to dead does not particularly jump out at you as the main point of the show. George is just a girl who died and has to deal with her life and her family moving on - not to mention her troubling personal life, oh lord, poor girl. And Ned the piemaker just makes pies and loves a girl so much that he wants to be around her, even if he can't touch her (if you know what I mean). Hannibal is just, well... Hannibal is just a crazy-ass show with a bunch of psycho- and sociopaths for psycho- and sociopaths. Also there's a lot of blood so. In short - Bryan Fuller: amazing, wonderful, a genius (I will die protecting his work).
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