Ignoring the advice of a lawn flamingo, for example, leads Jaye to accidently hit her dad with her car.Īdmittedly in their roundabout fashion the animals often lead Jaye to perform some good deed. What Jaye comes to learn though is that to disobey or refuse these voices-wherever they’re coming from whatever their intentions-usually ends badly. Animated creatures aren’t necessarily known for their clear, precise orders. Naturally these instructions are vague and cryptic. As Jaye so aptly puts it, anything with “a face” abruptly takes an interest in telling her what to do. They’re artistic renderings-animal statues, store logos, t-shirt designs, the stuffed variety. Dool it tle or Eliza Thornberry her animals aren’t real. Turns out Jaye can talk to animals but unlike Dr. Wonderfalls encapsulates that mastery of contrasts. Fuller’s early works were the perfect, imaginative mix of tragedy and fun levity. Go beyond a minute without touching them again and somebody else in the vicinity takes their place-it was balanced off with original, Technicolor sets and costumes, a star-crossed love story, and sensational weekly murder mysteries. Touch them a second time and they die permanently. Is the show’s source material naturally inclined to creepiness? Little bit, but what was beautiful about, say, Pushing Daisies was that while the concept could be pure depressing at face value-boy finds out that he can add a minute to a dead person life’s by touching them.
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And while far be it from me to knock bleakness, being no stranger to violent, angry TV universes like those portrayed on Banshee and Luther, the balance tips too far towards overall creepiness with Hannibal. I wish Mockingbird Lane had been his success story instead.īecause while every Bryan Fuller show has contained his trademarks of playful-snappy dialogue, quality visuals, and general whimsy, they have also followed a trajectory of increasingly darker subject matter. So far his program with the longest track record, which recently got renewed for a third season, is Hannibal. Mockingbird Lane, a reimagining of The Munsters, got a pilot during Halloween 2012 but was never mentioned again after airing once (I finally gave up on an NBC showing a repeat and found the episode online). The slightly more well-known Pushing Daisies only lasted two years, as did Dead Like Me. Unfortunately following Wonderfalls Bryan Fuller, the show’s visionary creator, would continue to be plagued by such cancellations for years. This fate is one shared by many TV shows (FOX’s most famous victim, the fourteen episode Firefly, gains fresh mourners every day). For that to happen you’d have to know the show existed and most people still don’t. They took pity on fans with a DVD set release the following year making the series’ complete thirteen episodes available for consumption, but if you weren’t a fan of the brief TV stint, chances are you weren’t becoming one now. After a total of four episodes FOX decided to cancel. Nor did it take long for Wonderfalls, which aired on FOX in 2004, to get the premature ax. By the five minute mark she’s performing her own Heimlich remover to stop from choking on a sandwich because no one walking by will respond to her “I can’t breath” gestures. It doesn’t take long into the pilot for things to go wrong for Jaye.
Until the cheeky souvenir lion started talking to her. She was as happy as an unsocial cynic can be. Basically, Jaye had set up a routine where she was able to fully commit to an ideal, unambitious lifestyle of few obligations and bare minimum requirements.
Amongst her concerned but career-minded family members (who make up a superb supporting cast including Lee Pace and Kate Finneran) she proudly played the role of the black sheep, toting around her unused philosophy degree and trailer park residence as banners of her independence. The lone social contact she kept with any regularity was with her best friend, Mahandra, but given Mahandra’s workplace- the bar Jaye frequented -keeping in touch didn’t take much effort. Despite the job’s implied requirement of speaking to customers on a regular basis, she avoided people as best she could and was fairly successful. Jaye Tyler was a normal, sarcastic, passive aggressive employee at a Niagara Falls tourist gift shop. “I wonder, wonder why the wonder falls…” So goes the refrain of the theme song for FOX’s short-lived Wonderfalls.
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