Wonderfalls articles

[Sue]

Originally posted by Rae on the Main discussion thread, 3-9-04:

Just got my daily Zap2It.com email and they had a link to a good article about Wonderfalls. It gives you a great idea what the show will be about

tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,274|86547|1|,00.html

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

Sue said:

Originally posted by Rae on the Main discussion thread, 3-9-04:

Just got my daily Zap2It.com email and they had a link to a good article about Wonderfalls. It gives you a great idea what the show will be about

tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,274|86547|1|,00.html

As Nan mentioned on the other thread, no mention is made of Tim Minear's part in "Wonderfalls"- on imdb he's listed as both Writer and Executive Producer, and coverage in places other than Zap2It have given him "creator" credit. Wonder what's up with that?

Julia, confuzzilated again

[Sara]

Posted by Karen:

www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0403260059mar26,1,3664260.story?coll=chi-leisuretempo-hed

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`Wonderfalls' widens puzzle of the trinkets


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By Steve Johnson
Tribune television critic
Published March 26, 2004

Highlighting a busy TV weekend that also includes a fresh episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and the chance to experience the musical magic that is Britney Spears in concert is a new episode of "Wonderfalls."

Here, an explanation is required. "Wonderfalls" is the new Fox dramedy that most critics, this one included, like a lot and that most viewers haven't bothered to see.




Friday's episode (8 p.m., WFLD-Ch. 32) offers the most overt exploration yet of the question of what is making inanimate tourist-shop trinkets talk to the show's unparalleled heroine, the brainy, hyper-self-conscious and underemployed Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas). "Bring her back to him," is the latest cryptic message she has received from the trinkets, which guide her to commit, almost against her will, acts of selflessness.

A woman, seemingly homeless, is found overnight in the bar Jaye frequents. When Jaye discovers a man has been pursuing the woman, she first wonders if he's the one she should be returned to, then if the him in question is actually Him.

Along the way to solving this metaphysical puzzle, the show from Bryan Fuller ("Dead Like Me"), Tim Minear ("The X-Files," "Angel," "Firefly") and Todd Holland ("The Larry Sanders Show," "Malcolm in the Middle") works in a sly sendup of the confessional and some of contemporary TV's brightest wordplay, offered up with a wondrous absence of apology.

Despite being so early in its run, the show is already becoming like a wildly discursive, college-lit-class version of "Law & Order." The puzzle-solving here, though, isn't about a murder but about the meaning of the messages. You know there'll be a couple of false starts along the way and then a surprise twist answer, and, as in "L&O," you appreciate the formalism of this structure.