Death becomes them: artists create effects 'to die for' in the Showtime series Dead Like Me.(Showtime Entertainment Inc. series the 'Dead Like Me')

Recently ending its second and possibly final season, Showtime's original series Dead Like Me livened up cable television with its dark humor and Emmy-nominated visual effects that place a new spin on life, death, and what might follow.

The series focuses on Georgia Lass, a cynical college dropout lacking ambition and direction. While on a lunch break from a boring temp job, she is struck and killed by a toilet seat that falls from the MIR space station. She then joins a group of grim reapers who, like herself, died with unresolved issues. With many "life" lessons to learn, these reapers exist among the living in the Pacific Northwest--eating, sleeping, working, ...