Saturday, November 26, 2005
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.