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Wonderfalls: The Complete Viewer Collection
Dennis Burger
03/01/2006
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Produced by: Twentieth Century Fox, Living Dead Guy Productions, Regency
Television
Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Price: $39.98
 Wonderfall’s Caroline Dhavernas stars as Jaye Tyler, an Ivy League philosophy
major who lives in a trailer park and works in a Niagara Falls gift shop. She
also converses with inanimate objects like deformed wax lions and wind-up
penguins, which send her on vaguely defined domino-effect quests to
inadvertently enrich the lives of complete strangers.
While the premise
sounds superficially similar to Joan of Arcadia, in spirit and style the show
falls closer to creator/writer Bryan Fuller’s previous effort, Dead Like Me.
Ultimately, style and premise are secondary to the talents and timing of
Dhavernas, who says more with a sideways glance than her contemporaries manage
with lengthy monologues and single-handedly redefines the art of acting every
five minutes.
Fox delivers all 13 episodes (only four of which ever aired) on
three DVDs, in an anamorphic widescreen presentation that struggles to keep up
with the cinematography’s idiosyncratic mix of vibrancy and grit. And while the
5.1 audio is clear and robust, it’s rarely very 5.1-ish. But don’t pass this one
up because of the less-than-perfect presentation—unless Wonderfalls enjoys a
Family Guy-like revival, there will never again be anything remotely like it on
the boob tube.
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