I only started watching Wonderfalls after it was cancelled. I know that show runner Bryan Fuller had plans already laid out for multiple seasons but at the same time the show works perfectly on it's own and comes to a satisfying conclusion.
The show is about Jaye, the baby in a family of overachievers (and the only one in her family who doesn't have a rhyming name, to emphasize how much she doesn't belong). To the complete befuddlement of her family Jaye works a dead-end retail job, lives in a trailer park and mostly avoid them. That is until one day Jaye begins hearing voices telling her to do things. The voices always belong to an inanimate toy or object with a face on it and though they offer her no explanation for the tasks the coerce her to perform their actions often lead, in befuddling and confusing ways, towards good.
There isn't a lot of explanation to the why's and hows of how Jaye hears voices but they aren't needed. The entire cast is perfect. Caroline Dhavernas is great as Jaye, Tyron Leitso is great as a heartbroken bartender who quickly becomes her love interest. The members of her family aren't a good physical match for Dhavernas, but they really do seem like a family and are all hilarious at physical comedy. There are also so many fabulous guest stars that just completely own their episodes.
It's a great, funny, smart show that perfectly works as a whole. If only there could be more series as great as this one.
The show is about Jaye, the baby in a family of overachievers (and the only one in her family who doesn't have a rhyming name, to emphasize how much she doesn't belong). To the complete befuddlement of her family Jaye works a dead-end retail job, lives in a trailer park and mostly avoid them. That is until one day Jaye begins hearing voices telling her to do things. The voices always belong to an inanimate toy or object with a face on it and though they offer her no explanation for the tasks the coerce her to perform their actions often lead, in befuddling and confusing ways, towards good.
There isn't a lot of explanation to the why's and hows of how Jaye hears voices but they aren't needed. The entire cast is perfect. Caroline Dhavernas is great as Jaye, Tyron Leitso is great as a heartbroken bartender who quickly becomes her love interest. The members of her family aren't a good physical match for Dhavernas, but they really do seem like a family and are all hilarious at physical comedy. There are also so many fabulous guest stars that just completely own their episodes.
It's a great, funny, smart show that perfectly works as a whole. If only there could be more series as great as this one.