Wonderfalls
Do you like Pushing Daises? Did you fall in love with the Pie-maker, the dead girl named Chuck, Olive Snook and Private Detective Emerson Cod? Well let me suggest to you it's predecessor - Wonderfalls.
Bryan Fuller's earlier project went the way of cancellation long before Pushing Daises was put into candy coloured existence and yet PD came from the spark of a potential plot line involving a man who c
ould wake the dead. Wonderfalls is set on the US side of Niagara Falls (but filmed on the Canadian side shhhhush!), it follows the life of Jaye Tyler and her loving, over-achieving, pushy family. Well meaning as they are Jaye has taken her Ivy league philosophy degree and general frustration with the world and run...as far as her tourist shop employment and trailer park home will let her. The show starts with the day a little mushed face lion talks to her, and follows the twisted paths that he and all the inanimate objects that talk lead her on. She never means well and yet things always end up being for the best, much to Jaye's annoyance. Caroline Dhavernas (pronounced Caro"lean"Da-ver-nas) is wonderful as Jaye, you feel her frustration, her fears for her sanity, fear her sharpness and yet still identify with her. She is not an easy character but she is a wonderful one.
The characters surrounding her are as well detailed as she is, reveling in an oddness that seems perfectly natural given the extremity of Jaye's perception. Her method of interaction is both charming and concerning and one of the
people glad to be trailing in her wake is Eric Gotts (Tyron Leitso) , the man who has just pressed the ejector seat to his life after coming to Niagara on his honeymoon only to catch his wife being unfaithful. Mahandra (Tracey Thoms) is Jaye's wonderful, brutally honest best friend, Sharon (Katie Finneran) is her closeted, lawyer older sister, Aaron (Lee Pace - the Pie-maker himself) is her perceptive, concerned brother and her parents Karen and Darrin Tyler (Diana Scarwid and William Sadler) who are mainly confused by all their children's behaviour.
It was a great show, cancelled before it even had a chance. Thankfully now available on dvd!
Here are some quotes :-
2 http://lettersfromlouis.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/as-melhores-series-canceladas/
3 http://www.wvah.com/programs/wonderfalls/leepace.shtml
ould wake the dead. Wonderfalls is set on the US side of Niagara Falls (but filmed on the Canadian side shhhhush!), it follows the life of Jaye Tyler and her loving, over-achieving, pushy family. Well meaning as they are Jaye has taken her Ivy league philosophy degree and general frustration with the world and run...as far as her tourist shop employment and trailer park home will let her. The show starts with the day a little mushed face lion talks to her, and follows the twisted paths that he and all the inanimate objects that talk lead her on. She never means well and yet things always end up being for the best, much to Jaye's annoyance. Caroline Dhavernas (pronounced Caro"lean"Da-ver-nas) is wonderful as Jaye, you feel her frustration, her fears for her sanity, fear her sharpness and yet still identify with her. She is not an easy character but she is a wonderful one.The characters surrounding her are as well detailed as she is, reveling in an oddness that seems perfectly natural given the extremity of Jaye's perception. Her method of interaction is both charming and concerning and one of the
people glad to be trailing in her wake is Eric Gotts (Tyron Leitso) , the man who has just pressed the ejector seat to his life after coming to Niagara on his honeymoon only to catch his wife being unfaithful. Mahandra (Tracey Thoms) is Jaye's wonderful, brutally honest best friend, Sharon (Katie Finneran) is her closeted, lawyer older sister, Aaron (Lee Pace - the Pie-maker himself) is her perceptive, concerned brother and her parents Karen and Darrin Tyler (Diana Scarwid and William Sadler) who are mainly confused by all their children's behaviour.It was a great show, cancelled before it even had a chance. Thankfully now available on dvd!
Here are some quotes :-
- Karen: Your sister's not a cold-blooded murderer. She's never been a planner.
- Gretchen: Did you end up over-educated and unemployable like you said in the yearbook?
- Jaye: Yep.
- Mahandra: Disappointing your family is an extreme sport for you
- Aaron: Meaninglessness in a universe that has no meaning — that I get. But meaninglessness in a universe that has meaning... what does it mean?!
- Jaye: She's nice. We should take her clubbing.
- Mahandra: ...baby seals?
- Bianca: Your home is a trailer. Don't you see the beautiful poetry in that? It's a thing that's been designed to go someplace, and yet the hitch isn't hooked up to anything. So it just sits here, never living up to it's potential... but never in any danger of breaking down either.
- Jaye: [resigned] I don't have a choice; I'm a puppet. The universe just sticks its hand up my butt, and if I don't dance, people get hurt!
2 http://lettersfromlouis.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/as-melhores-series-canceladas/
3 http://www.wvah.com/programs/wonderfalls/leepace.shtml
i really didn't get into pushing daisies & yet i really wish i had as i loved the style & look of the whole show!
ReplyDeletePD does have a great look, kind of an amped up candy look with out being cartoony...which also kinda decribes the characters too!
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