'The issue for 'Not Dead Yet,' from creators David Windsor and Casey Johnson, is that it also wants to be a hangout workplace comedy. In the end, it's neither fish nor fowl,' writes Tribune critic nina_metz.
Gina Rodriguez stars as a newspaper obituary writer who sees ghosts — specifically of the people about whom she’s writing on the ABC single-camera sitcom “Not Dead Yet.”
As tropes go, a character interacting with apparitions who are invisible to everyone else is a solid enough premise that never really seems to die , and over on CBS “Ghosts” has proved that there is life in this idea yet .The issue for “Not Dead Yet,” from creators David Windsor and Casey Johnson , is that it also wants to be a hangout workplace comedy. In the end, it’s neither fish nor fowl.
Likable as the cast may be — including “Superstore’s” Lauren Ash as Nell’s absurdly out-of-touch boss and “New Girl’s” Hannah Simone as an editor at the paper who is also Nell’s best friend — the B-stories feel like they’re just filling time before we get back to the main event: Nell juggling her latest ghost.
Nell thinks she’s slumming it on the obit beat, so at one point she goes rogue and assigns herself an investigative story without conferring with any of her editors. Then she gets it posted on the paper’s website behind everyone’s back by convincing the “internet upload engineer” to make it happen. This is a plainly fireable offense! OK, look: Most shows get the details wrong of pretty much any profession, and you either suspend your disbelief or complain to the nearest person in the room.
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