Strange and supernatural with a humorous bent, Dead Last chronicles the misadventures of a fledgling rock band on the verge of being discovered when the rockers accidentally stumble upon a magical ancient amulet that gives them the power to see ghosts... whether they want to or not. Suddenly, their popularity skyrockets - if only with the dead - as they find themselves eternally stuck with the unwanted task of helping an endless parade of apparitions resolve their unfinished business so they can move on to the next world.

It is not as if the band, named The Problem, didn't already have their fair share of issues before the amulet put their relationships - and their sanity - to the test. Vaughn Parrish (newcomer Kett Turton) is the brooding and charismatic guitarist and singer, who sometimes lets his ego get the better of him. His band mate since high school is Scotty Sallback (Tyler Labine, Antitrust), the band's hulking drummer, whose rough-and-tumble exterior hides a good-natured soul. Jane Cahill (Sara Downing, Roswell), The Problem's beautiful bass player, often serves as the peacemaker of the group, mediating artistic differences between the two guys.

No matter how hard Vaughn, Scotty and Jane try to reject their bizarre new mission and pursue musical stardom, the amulet remains - it cannot be destroyed, sold, given away or even swallowed. Like it or not, these three musicians will be greeted around every corner by the walking dead, from pilgrims to Redcoats, Depression-era convicts to modern-day lonely hearts, deceased cheerleaders and even murderers with earthly work left undone. The Problem has a new lifelong gig - helping the dearly departed to actually depart.

This un-asked-for ghost counselling is not only a real obstacle to life on tour, it's often downright dangerous. In the midst of all the paranormal chaos, their tightly wound manager, Dennis Budny (Wayne Péré, Out of Sight), who has wrangled the group for two years, keeps the threesome on the road playing gigs in hopes of landing a record deal.

This otherworldly rock 'n' roll comedy was created by Steve Pink, D.V. DeVincentis and Patrick O'Neill, who serve as executive producers. Dead Last is produced by Evanston Motor and Pump in association with Warner Bros. Television

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Struggling rock band The Problem is made up of lead singer/ guitarist, sexy bassist/songwriter Jane, and drummer Scotty. During a sound check in a 400-year-old building, Scotty discovers an ancient amulet that gives the three friends the unwanted power to see the troubled spirits that walk among us -- and the responsibility to help with earthly work left undone. Amidst the otherworldly chaos, the band mates have to try to explain the weird new situation to their tightly wound manager Dennis.

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 Episode Summary by Loreali

 Dead Last starts off like a typical show of a band, which is ironically called The Problem, arguing over why the gutiar should or should not be louder. The band consists of Vaughn, who is the lead gutarist, Scotty, the comical and talented drummer , and Jane, who is like a mediator between the the two men and bass player.

Their plans change when Scotty comes across an ancient amulet, the Amulet of Sauryn. Their abilty to see dead people starts when Vaughn reads the words written on it which are in Latin. From then on they see red coats, pilots, plane passengers and a pilgrim who doesn't seem to die. But what they don't know is that they all are dead already. They try everything they can to rid themselves of the ancient amulet. But unfortunately it can't be burned, buried, sold, given away or swallowed. So Scotty pawns it, over and over again.

The band gets into an arguement over who is the leader of the band after Vaughn went to a private meeting with Ray Varna alone. The band splits up for the day. During their time apart each member help a ghost. Vaughn refuses to go ahead without Jane and Scotty after taking the advice of a dead man who was strung along by Ray. Jane decides to listen to what the pilgrim has to say and finds out that they are stuck being 'Ghostbusters' until they die. Jane helps a dead woman who thinks that she is ugly by telling her that she thinks she is beautiful. Soon after, the pilgrim and elderly woman disappear. Scotty helps a man who was hit by a truck by giving his wefie a ring, using the money he got from trying to pawn the amulet. And he too disappears.

In the end they all come back together when Vaughn apologizes for his head getting too big and that he could not imagine playing without them.

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Episode Recap by Cat

Okay, so they first play some “song.” I thought songs were supposed to be some kind of music but hey, maybe we don’t all have the same definition of music. So they fight a little about whatever, and then Ray comes along. The guy is so gay. And nice company name - “Stereodrome Records.” At least the band agrees with me on the dude. Nice van too. Where did Ray get it? I like the orange. Very flashy. Yeah right.

Electrical problem, Scotty falls, finds the amulet, and blah, blah, blah.

Opening Credits. They suck. No song and this loser guy explaining what the Amulet of Sauryn is, and Scotty saying “no” like 15 times. Just stupid.

Vaughn with a girl in the van. He doesn’t remember her name. Wow, that’s an original scenario. Jane doesn’t like it. First sign of the "sexual tension" between them. Vaughn and Jane are listening to some crappy music that Vaughn made. Okay, seriously, my 7 year old cousin who has never touched a guitar in his entire life would have done something better. Scotty comes, throws out the tape, something Jane should have done a while ago.

Driving from who knows where to Boston. Some stupid conversation about where they are. Who gives a damn? There’s no jokes or anything. It looks like the writers were trying to fill some blanks.

Scotty shows the amulet. I would have thrown the thing away and not give a damn about it but since it's the basis of the story, we'll give him a break. So Vaughn knows Latin because he went to Catholic school. That’s dumb. I did some Latin and never went to any kind of private school and I know some people who went to Catholic school and never did Latin. But Jane made a little joke in the middle of it so we’ll just say it’s fine.

Vaughn reads the words in Latin and then we are greeted with a special effects fiesta. Chaos ensues. There’s a pilgrim in the middle of the road. Scotty couldn’t avoid him but didn’t feel anything, so he doesn’t think that he hit him. Then they hear some sound and they think they’re dragging him, it’s not the pilgrim and blah, blah, blah. The pilgrim comes back – oh I’ll just skip this part because it’s boring.

Next morning, at a cafe, Vaughn finds out he still has the amulet. Wow, the amulet sure looks shiny compared to the day before. He leaves it at the table but Jane keeps it. Cut to Jane on the computer with Vaughn and Scotty eating behind her. Why isn’t she freaking eating? It’s always the same thing, girls don’t eat and guys do. Great promotion for anorexics. Although I don’t think I would have eaten either if some fast food was my only option to nourish myself. Okay back to the scene. Some little joke about the name of the pilgrim - well the episode didn’t have any allusion to sex yet, even 7th Heaven talk about sex so it needed the joke to be a proper WB show. Scotty leaves to get rid of the amulet and some nameless girl walks in. What the hell happened to her hair? Didn’t her mother tell her not to put her head in the microwave? Note for Vaughn. Vaughn tries to hit on the girl. He didn’t succeed. Well that’s a big a surprise. Every girl likes to be hit on by some noname guy with pathetic pick up lines. (Yeah I had my share of those) Jane made fun of him (good for you, Jane), but was cut short with Vaughn’s allusion to their failed relationship. And Jane doesn’t have a come back to that. And she was so close to score. Well 1 for Vaughn, 0 for Jane.

Scotty gives the amulet to some kids. As soon as he walks away he has the amulet back in his pocket. He tries to bust it, melt it, all kinds of stuff with the kids. Scotty makes some stupid remark that the boy isn’t strong so he must be a girl. Well that’s nice stereotyping. Score 658,234,597,341 for men, 0 for women.

Jane at the bar with some coffee. She sees the pilgrim, panics in a very girly way (I’m guilty of panicking like that myself) and drops the coffee cup dramatically. Dennis comes behind and startles her, again in a very dramatic way. Dennis tells her that she can tell him anything and blah, blah, blah. You don’t really listen to the conversation because Jane’s nipples are showing through her shirt and all you can think of is “damn girl, wear a bra.” Her shirt is freaking purple. Purple is such an ugly color, but Jane can wear it well so her shirt is fine as long as she wears a bra. Back to the scene. Jane decides not tell anything to Dennis about the ghosts.

Vaughn meets Ray at some bar. God could Ray be more of a stupid ass? I don’t think so. So Ray is talking crap and Vaughn’s not listening to him. Let’s move on. Scotty sells the amulet over and over again (I knew from the beginning that he was smart) and makes loads of cash.

Jane’s on the computer. Someone tries to get in. It’s Scotty. The thing that is supposedly stopping him from getting in is this very light chair that Jane stood against the door. Like I’m gonna believe that the chair did anything to block the door. So Jane aks how she can know if it’s Scotty or not. May I remind our dear Jane that the amulet gives them power to see ghosts, not the power to be possessed by them? Whatever. She finally lets Scotty in and tells him that she saw the pilgrim again. Scotty tells her that he’s got lots of cash and that the amulet is great when Vaughn, with the biggest stick up his ass, walks in. He wants Scotty to be more serious about the band and forget about the amulet and then he starts saying that he’s the leader of the band. Another fight ensues. That band always fight when Vaughn has a stick up his ass, so my suggestion is take the stick out and everything will be fine. Dennis walks in, they leave, they see another ghost, they fight, they break apart.

Jane’s left alone. She sees the pilgrim again. Oh slow motion there. Very dramatic. She runs. With no bra. There must be a lot of guys on the crew team and not many women. Jane rants. That’s funny. She’s cool. “You’re stuck with it” – Yeah right, like pilgrims talked like that. So they’re stuck with seeing ghosts for the rest of their life.

Vaughn calls Ray. Ray is in a strip club. Big surprise there. Okay, anyone who doesn’t want to kill Ray by now must have some mental problem…the character is plain annoying.

Scotty is at the same cafe that the band were in the morning and a ghost tries to talk to him. Scotty tells him to back off. He realizes that the guy is a ghost when no one can see him. Cut to Vaughn at the bar. Some ghost tells him that he knew Ray and blah, blah, blah. Cut to Jane and the pilgrim. Okay so that scene’s boring so I’m not even going to waste my time reviewing it. Cut back to Scotty and the ghost. The ghost wants Scotty to buy a ring. Cut to Jane and the pilgrim again. She tells a grandma that she’s pretty. I don’t know about the grandma, but Jane is really pretty in that scene. Vaughn and the ghost again. Boring. Vaughn sees Ray, tells him he’s not interested in Stereodrome Records. Back to Scotty. He gives the ring to the ghost’s wife. She cries. It’s touching. Let’s move on.

Jane goes back to the room the band stays at. Dennis is waiting. They were supposed to play a hour ago. He tells her to stay until he does whatever. He leaves. Jane says “screw it” and starts packing. I would have done the same thing. Vaughn walks in, apologizes, Jane rants - I bet their relationship was like that. Scotty walks in, punches Vaughn (good boy) and tells Vaughn that it’s ok. Dennis comes back and ask the band what’s going on. They all tell him at the same time and if you really listen to it, none of what they say make sense, and at the end they say that they see ghosts. Dennis doesn’t believe them.

They go on stage, a ghost appears and ask them to take him to the state line. Vaughn says that they will after show.

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