Wonderfalls

In response to the update on this post, I just e-mailed Glenn Reynolds the following:

Tim Minear is right.  We were hooked on Wonderfalls from the first episode, and it was too good for Fox not to summarily execute.  It’s a wonder it ever made it to air in the first place.

I immediately described it as a twisted Joan of Arcadia.

We ordered the full season after it became available, sat and watched the whole thing in three sittings, in the intended broadcast order (Fox screwed things up by flipping a couple of the episodes, one of which was in some ways a continuation of the other), and it was great.

Yet I am not sure I’d want to see it go past a season.  Why?

It amounts to the worlds longest romantic comedy.  Warped and twisted and amazingly funny, but still at heart a romantic comedy.  You can view the season and end it with a mental note of “and they lived happily ever after”
without ever needing to know more.  Perfection.

Then I remarked how odd it was I’d meant to post about it after we watched the series, but instead I was saying what I thought in an e-mail to him.  So hey, why not post it!

Wonderfalls.  One of the best, funniest shows ever made.  Buy the DVD set.  It’s cheap for a 13 episode long romantic comedy.

1. I enjoyed Wonderfalls, too! (Hmm, maybe I can borrow your DVD’s?)

   It seems that many of the better shows are killed off by the networks for one reason or another. Sometimes it is malice, other times just poor planning.

   When I heard that CBS had killed Joan of Arcadia, my thought was “Are these guys nuts? It just won a bunch of Emmys and is one of the better shows on the air!”

   Another show that was killed off by CBS was The Brotherhood of Poland, NH. They put it up against perennial time-slot winner Law & Order and they wondered why it didn’t do so well in the ratings? After 5 episode they killed it even though it did have better ratings than other shows they kept on the air. I guess they didn’t want to give it time to develop a following, much like Picket Fences.

   And the Big Three networks wonder why they’re losing market share to the cable channels.....

   Posted by DCE  on  11/27  at  03:02 PM

2. One of the things about Wonderfalls that I really appreciated is that the ending that we got in the DVD set was a good ending.  I would’ve loved to have seen more, but the story didn’t feel unfinished.

   Compare that to another ended-before-its-time show, Firefly.  We did get a decent ending to Firefly, but not until Serenity came out.  (Even moreso than Wonderfalls, I’d be thrilled to get more of the story, but at least now I feel like there’s some degree of resolution.)

   Posted by Robin S.  on  11/28  at  02:12 PM

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