TV-Reviewed

Rating this episode of Pushing Daisies is an unfortunate task, because I’m fully aware that the writer’s weren’t prepared to make these last episodes the last episodes of the series, so I’m cursed with the task of deciding whether to rate these as regular episodes or having to rate them as the last episodes of a great show.

In “Water and Power,” Emerson takes on a case that leads him back on the path of finding his daughter. He takes on the case to find out who killed Roland Stingwell, a former client that ended up dissatisfied when he took his fiancé, Lila, who eventually birthed Penny; the child that Emerson has been looking for all season.

The reason why this case was different was simply, because it was personal to Emerson. It was interesting seeing him off his game and doing things that Emerson would never do like chatting with the police. The whole goal for this case was for Emerson to get his daughter back. Lila became the first accused suspect, but when she makes a deal to let Emerson see his daughter, Emerson must hurry and look for another suspect. Emerson believed that Lila was the culprit the whole time, but continues to interview pointless witnesses to see if he could possibly pin the crime on one of them. We did get an amusing bunch of witnesses with my personal favorite being the lawyers who don’t lie.

Chi McBride as Emerson Cod

It was great to see Simone take part in the action also and the showdown with her and Lila was amusing. Speaking of Lila, Gina Torres was a good choice for the character, but it’s sad that the writer’s didn’t think of adding more depth to Lila. By the end of the episode all we get is that Lila is just plain evil, sure she didn’t commit the crime, but it simply didn’t make sense why she didn’t let Emerson see his daughter. The ending was also confusing, because if the girl at the end of the episode was Penny, how the hell did she get in the car when Emerson was facing the car the whole time.

We had a couple of side stories with Olive and Randy’s blossoming romance which almost ends badly when Olive breaks up with him for no reason. It’s nice to see Olive moving on from Ned, because the whole pining after someone who’s in love with someone else was starting to get a bit tiresome for me; especially if the show had be given the go ahead for another season.

There was also talk from Chuck and Ned about their relationship and sometimes it just seems like their talking in circles. Lately Chuck and Ned have these conversations about whether their relationship is normal. It often seems like chuck and Ned want a normal relationship but by the end of every episode they always manage to settle with the fact that their relationship is just strange.

With only one more episode left I guess this is probably the conclusion to everyone that we’re going to get and I have to say with having limited time to put together an ending, it’s not such a bad way to go out. Sure Emerson never really got to talk to his kid, but he did get to see her and knows that she’s alright, and we’re not sure if Olive is permanently over Ned, but we can at least see that she’s trying to move on and as far as Ned and Chuck’s relationship it looks like for now that they’re fully content with their strange relationship.

I did like this episode, because it did attempt to tie up loose ends. I can actually say that I’m somewhat satisfied with the conclusions that we’ve been left. There is still one more episode left, so we’ll have to see if there are any more surprises ahead for us, but for now this episode does a good job of tying up storylines.

Rating 7.5