DVD Review: Wonderfalls

I completely missed all of Bryan Fuller's shows when they aired. I never even really heard about Dead Like Me or Wonderfalls until they were already cancelled. Pushing Daisies was something that really interested me, but I never got around to watching until it came out on DVD. Then came news that it was cancelled as well. Still, I loved Pushing Daisies so much that when I heard about this show, I bought it immediately.

Wonderfalls is a show about a young girl, who hears voices. Not disembodied ones, but from inanimate objects all around her. Mostly animals. These things tell her to do stuff, and usually everything works out in the end if she just listens.

It's definitely as unique a plot as his other shows, but my problem is in the characters. They seem like they should have been in a show from the 90's. Snarky Jaye Taylor is the girl with the voices, and she just doesn't like anything.

Except that bartender boy, but she wouldn't ever act like she liked him. No way, she'll just make witty, smarmy comments around him. *Gasp*! He makes witty, smarmy comments right back! Everything works out so hip and snarky.

It's this sort of cliched character writing that brings down what otherwise is a very engrossing plot. Either way, the plot is still worth checking out. The show only aired 4 episodes before they canned it, but there are 14 in total.

He must have known it was going to get cancelled ahead of time, as the 14th episode brings everything to a nice, neat end. At least the character relationships. We never really learn a whole lot about why random objects talk to her, and I suppose we probably never will. Still, you don't really need to in order to enjoy the show.

Score: 4 out of 5
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