Georgia, 18 dies in the first episode, hit and killed by a toilet seat jettisoned by a defunct space station. She then finds out that she didn't die and in reality must join the reapers who collect souls and ferry them off to the great beyond sans the boat and the river Styx. Sardonically the only thing she can relate about her death in hind sight is that it was tragic that the only guy that got to touch her naked body was the coroner.
Things get progressively worse for Georgia when she realizes that along with collecting souls she must still hold down an office job in order to live and that she must do this for an unspecified amount of time (maybe centuries). Tragic, but at least she isn't dead. She gets to be Undead, and is fitted with another identity. Oh yeah she also has to meet her boss (played by Mandy Patinkin) and the other reapers everyday at a german waffle house for their assignments.
Jasmine Guy plays one of the reapers that helps Georgia along the initial training period, and is remarkable as a tough reaper/ meter maid. There are a few other reapers that help the new girl gain some perspective on her afterlife, a shifty brit and a fiery southerner played by ex-noxema girl extraordinare Rebecca Gayheart. They are all good, watchable and fantastically jaded. The fun part is that I know I would be too, if I had to ferry souls to their own respective heavens/hells, but never got to see it myself.
Georgia's old family plays a role also, as she gets an outside view of what her family is like now that she's gone. Although going back home to sneak a few peaks is strictly forbidden, like any good teenager, she does it anyway. Her mother, introduced as a starsign: Virgo is just like a bitchier version of your mother or grandmother, just hide and watch. Another great addition is Georgia's little sister who is obsessed with toilet seats after her sister's untimely death, and merrily resists therapy. Oddly enough, toilet seat trees are pretty. You'll see.
Buy this series right away. It was underrated and brilliant like many things that works years after, it was not truely appreciated in its time. Unluckily I didn't get to watch it on tv because I don't buy premium channels (Showtime), and I didn't experience it with everyone else. So if you haven't seen it before, you can watch it now with me.