Dead Like Me (2009)
A crew of Reapers, whose job is to gather souls of people who are about to die, find themselves confronted by change, as their habitual meeting place Der Waffle Haus burns down on the same day that their boss and head reaper, Rube, disappears (having “gotten his lights”). They soon meet their new boss, Cameron Kane (Henry Ian Cusick), a slick businessman who died falling from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He outfits them with color-coordinated smartphones and treats them to luxurious accommodations, teaching them all that, as Roxy (Jasmine Guy) puts it later, “nothing we do here matters.” (more…)
