Warning: Many spoilers.

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The 2003-2004 television season was one in which critics and fans expressed their growing outrage at the decay of standards in commercial television. On the one hand, the WB decided to assassinate the critically acclaimed ANGEL despite an unprecedented fan disaster to achieve the note. A growing stream of increasingly offensive reality shows made many wonder if there was any future for scripted television, or whether we were doomed to gaze shows like the widely condemned THE SWAN. But for many, the grievous point of the entire season was the cancellation by FOX of the fantastic unusual exhibit WONDERFALLS after only four episodes, despite a host of gargantuan reviews, many of them proclaiming it the finest fresh demonstrate of the year. More than this, it was as if FOX were obvious for the display to fail, first placing it on Friday evenings (the worst night of the week for attracting viewers) for three weeks, before putting it on Thursday night opposite a host of the most celebrated shows on TV, therefore dooming it to coarse ratings. With the tremendous reviews, one would have imagined that FOX would have found the indicate a novel time slot and built an advertising and promotional campaign around the critics’ ravings.

Luckily, WONDERFALLS is being released with the four fresh episodes and nine more that were completed but not released. The big news for those who saw those first four shows is that the next nine are even better. Indeed, if you were excited at the cancellation of the expose based solely on those four episodes, you will go ballistic when you study how estimable these others are. The writers were obviously in defense mode from the first. One of the executive producers, Tim Minear, had been victimized the previous year when he served as executive producer of FIREFLY, which FOX similarly killed prematurely. This time, they assumed that the thirteen episodes might be all they got. As a result, WONDERFALLS is essentially a single self-contained epic in thirteen parts. It could easily have led to a second season with original account lines, but the one season they did make tells a single memoir, with no major loose ends at all by the waste of the final one.

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As most who have heard of the reveal know, WONDERFALLS is the sage of Jaye, a slacker living in Niagara Falls, NY (though most of the footage at the Falls is from the Canadian side) and working in a menial job in a souvenir gift shop. Her life is mundane and unpromising, when suddenly one day inanimate animals open talking to her. A lot of people who hear this aspect of the note are turned off, but trust me, it really won’t be an swear for long for anyone who gives the exhibit a chance. We never do learn why the animals talk to Jaye (though in one spectacular episode a bronze monkey, in response to her examine of why they are all singling her out, tells her, “Because you listen”) . In one episode advance the slay of the season there are hints that Jaye might actually be a spirit seer, and if so it is highly satirical that in American consumer society that she would be addressed by artificial, utterly counterfeit animals instead of the actual animals that Native American seers acknowledged as spirit guides.

The animals don’t really give Jaye grand choice in the matter of whether she is going to notice their commands. She learns very speedily that if she doesn’t do their bidding, they will drive her crazy by such stratagems as singing endlessly “One Hundred Bottles of Beer On the Wall.” She also learns that if she refuses to do their bidding, things can go very abominable very mercurial, and that if she does things can go miraculously legal. For instance, she is commanded to do a number of things through consecutive episodes that apparently kill a potential relationship with Eric, the young bartender who came to Niagara on his honeymoon, only to have his wife (played by FIREFLY alum Jewel Staite, as unlovable in this role as she was adorable as Kaylee in that present) cheat on him their first night there. Eric seems perfect for the prickly Jaye, but the animals don’t seem to want to cooperate. I won’t give away the destroy of the series, but I deem the final episodes raze about as perfectly as one could hope. After thirteen episodes in which Jaye has functioned as a pawn of fate, seeing her finally a petite tickled and dispute is a incredible moment.

The cast is absolutely first rate, and by the kill of the series all invent a ample contribution. Caroline Dhavernas is really magnificent as Jaye. She is not supposed to be a pleasant or lovable or nice person. She definitely isn’t a saint. As she puts it in one episode, in which she inadvertently saves a baby from injury, “I’m not a baby saver!” She ends up being a top-notch person despite her maintain best efforts to the contrary. Tyron Leitso is enormously likable as Eric, who seems to be procedure too nice of a guy to be keen with a brat like Jaye. But the chemistry between Jaye and Eric is stout, especially as their relationship gets enormously complicated by life (and inanimate animals) later in the season. At first I was troubled that Jaye’s family was going to play such a prominent role in the series, but all the performers were so exceptional that it ended up being one of the show’s greatest assets. William Sandler as her doctor father, Diane Scarwid as her author mother, and Kate Finneran as her lawyer sister (all three highly successful in their jobs) were astronomical and succor to emphasize how unsuccessful in life Jaye has been.. And I really liked Lee Trip as her brother Aaron, a doctoral student in religion who is the first to fetch on that Jaye has an unique relationship with the powers that be via untrue animals (something he first suspects when he catches her talking to a cow coffee creamer) . And Tracie Thomas is quite cute as Mahandra, Jaye’s best friend and the surreptitious lover of Aaron (a fact only revealed to the other characters only in the final episode) .

This is one of my approved series of all time, and while I profoundly regret that FOX didn’t give it a chance, I am grateful that the producers managed to sigh a shimmering and compelling yarn. And I loved the setting in Niagara Falls. It was one of those rare shows where very nearly everything was perfect, except that it appeared on a network hasten by the mentally challenged. Discover this! I promise one of the most tantalizing experiences of your viewing life.

“Wonderfalls” was one of those outstanding cult shows that burn gleaming and briefly — it lasted only four episodes before being yanked, with nine more as yet unaired. Now fans of this cult explain are rewarded with the elephantine series, in all its witty, quirky glory.

Twentysomething Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas) is an underachieving slacker. She has a philosophy degree from Brown University, but now works as a shopgirl at Niagara Falls and lives in a trailer. Needless to say, her ultra-successful family finds this galling and disturbing, even though they themselves are far from perfect — her sister Sharon (Katie Finneran) is a lesbian, her parents are splitting, and her brother is honest a weirdo.

Then weirder things happen to Jaye. Suddenly toys are talking to her, and prompting her to succor the people around her — returning purses, dealing with ghosts, helping an archaic enemy from high school, and deal with a long-dead Indian girl. Following the instructions of her “muses,” Jaye begins to learn a few things about other people, and the quality of kindness.

It’s an original view for a TV expose — an embittered young woman hears “muses” talking to her, including a stuffed lizard, lawn flamingos and a brass monkey. Most people would fair check themselves into a padded cell, but that doesn’t do for scintillating TV watching. So instead, it becomes a deeply warped inspirational series.

What sets it apart from other series is the surreal touch and contemptible sense of humor. It’s never made certain why Jaye hears toys and bookends talking cryptically to her — is it God? Aliens? Her have mind? Pantheistic souls in everything? Nothing is made specific, which makes it all the weirder and more inspiring — especially since the toys give her advice even when she doesn’t want it.

And the humor can be beyond odd, but is always humorous, such as Jaye arguing with a cow creamer (shades of P.G. Wodehouse? ) that she doesn’t want a pancake. Another example is a solemn, intense moment after she scatters a deceased person’s ashes…. and promptly gets fined for littering. The dialogue is witty and well-written — not in a laugh track arrangement, but in a smile-and-chuckle-softly intention.

Caroline Dhavernas does a phenomenal job as Jaye. She narrowly avoids the short-tempered teen/twentysomething cliche, making Jaye’s dissatisfaction with her family and life seem realistic. She can be sinful and incisive and angsty, but can also be sweet and even vulnerable. The supporting cast, such as nice-guy bartender Eric (Tyron Leitso) and Jaye’s bizarro overachiever family, are surprisingly well-rounded for such quirky characters.

“Wonderfalls” is destined to remain a cult hit — stunning, peculiar and thoroughly unique. It didn’t last long, but now everyone can delight in what there was of it. Absolutely wonder-fall.
Colon Cleansing