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The new ABC show Pushing Daisies premiered a month and a half ago with a charm that could steal one’s heart. Its utter originality is configured of a creative, appealing storyline with characters to match, witty writing and bright pastoral colors. But six episodes in, the daisy is starting to droop; its charm is wearing off.

The background story is as follows. Young Ned discovers at the age of nine that he has the ability to bring someone or something dead back to life, with one touch of a finger. However, a second touch means death, in permanence, and for every person he keeps alive for more than one minute, someone else in close proximity must die in the living one’s place. Nearly twenty years later, Ned owns a pie diner. Having come recently into his life are Emerson Cod, a private detective employing Ned to revive murdered victims for 60 seconds of questions, and Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, Ned’s childhood sweetheart brought back to life out of coincidence after her murder. Each episode is a story on its own, with the feel of an individual movie in the style of Tim Burton. The stories, set in a 60′s yet modern ticky-tacky world, always involve a complicated and quirky mystery to be solved that have included a car company with a new model that runs off dandelions for fuel, a pair of stolen monkey statues, a mysterious messenger pigeon, dog breeders, and a dead racehorse and his jockey seemingly risen for revenge. The show is quality entertainment, or so it seemed at its kickoff, but the running stream of the character’s development is becoming redundant. Ned and Chuck are in love, yet as she would die instantly if he were to touch her, their relationship harbors challenges that are not able to be solved and so arise repeatedly. The actors play their parts well, but those parts are all on the verge of becoming tirelessly annoying.

It is nice to see that not all TV today is sickening reality shows or melodramatic soaps, but it is also too bad Pushing Daisies couldn’t have pushed a little harder. Still, perfection is hard to find, the show does have whim, and we never know what future installments will bring.