{"id":2307,"date":"2008-10-07T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T10:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/kristen-chenoweth-makes-a-beau.html"},"modified":"2008-10-07T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T10:40:27","slug":"kristen-chenoweth-makes-a-beau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/kristen-chenoweth-makes-a-beau.html","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Chenoweth Makes a Beautiful Nun on &#8216;Pushing Daisies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kristinchenowethpicic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/kristinchenowethpicic.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"186\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>I&#8217;m happy to report that one of my favorite new television shows from last year, &#8220;Pushing Daisies,&#8221; is back for its second season and quirky as ever (Wednesdays, 9 p.m., ABC). In addition to the usual, madcap fun of Ned and Chuck&#8217;s chaste love for each other (if Ned touches Chuck, she&#8217;ll die&#8211;again), and Chuck&#8217;s wacky, former synchronized swimmer aunties, Olive Snook, played wonderfully by Kristen Chenoweth, has a fun twist in her character as of the season premier:<br \/>\nOlive has become a nun. For now.<br \/>\nAnd Olive is a beautiful, &#8220;Hills Are Alive&#8221; singing nun, wearing not the usual nun-navy-blue, but instead a bright, happy, aqua habit. Olive has long been in love with her boss at The Pie Hole, Ned, and when she finally faces facts&#8211;that she only has eyes for Chuck&#8211;in a fit of despair she runs away <em>to a convent<\/em>. True to the show&#8217;s writing, they play Olive&#8217;s move for all its worth to hilarious, comic effect, between the singing and the mother superior and the giving away (oops) of all Olive&#8217;s earthly possessions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nKristen Chenoweth is perfect in this role, hamming it up as much as she can. This well-known Christian actress seems to be having a blast playing a Catholic nun for the time being, and I look forward to seeing what the convent cooks up for her next.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/tv\/pushing-daisies\/3313800\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/tv\/pushing-daisies\/3313800\/351x85_belief.gif\" alt=\"Pushing Daisies at LocateTV.com\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to report that one of my favorite new television shows from last year, &#8220;Pushing Daisies,&#8221; is back for its second season and quirky as ever (Wednesdays, 9 p.m., ABC). In addition to the usual, madcap fun of Ned and Chuck&#8217;s chaste love for each other (if Ned touches Chuck, she&#8217;ll die&#8211;again), and Chuck&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kristen Chenoweth Makes a Beautiful Nun on &#039;Pushing Daisies&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/kristen-chenoweth-makes-a-beau.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kristen Chenoweth Makes a Beautiful Nun on &#039;Pushing Daisies&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m happy to report that one of my favorite new television shows from last year, &#8220;Pushing Daisies,&#8221; is back for its second season and quirky as ever (Wednesdays, 9 p.m., ABC). 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