"Wonderfalls" is something like "Dead Like Me" meets "Joan of Arcadia", with a twist of Canadian comedy I can't place from the top of my head. From the creative minds of Todd Holland ("Malcolm in the Middle") and Bryan Fuller ("Deead Like Me"), and accompanied by Joss Whedon's usual partner in crime, Tim Minear, as Executive Producer.
It's a great premise and a fresh take from the opening. Caroline Dhavernas is a great lead and her character is easily loveable. Sadly the rest of the cast isn't as easily endured, quite possibly with the exception of Tracie Thoms as her best friend. Sadler and Finneran are talented enough, but their characters aren't well rounded. The remaining cast are annoying at best, but miscast more likely.
The first few episodes still holds a very high level of quality; the humor is great and the writing doesn't suck at all. The later half of the 13 episodes made aren't as lucky. The writing spirals down into cliched territory, the love-angle is at best weak (while I found it horrible in every way; bad cast, cliched, uninteresting etc), they mostly lost the good touches of humor and the storyline didn't evolve. What started as a show with great potential, soon turned into a no-brainer for axing by the end. This one I can't blame Fox for, as the creative minds and writers made a mess of it.
Still. I find it strange the lead, Caroline Dhavernas, didn't get involved more into TV-series in the following years. She without a doubt have the talent needed, and it took seven years for her to get involved in another show (another one season show, ABC's "Off the Map"). She did quite a few movies in the meanwhile, but she has such great TV-abilities it's a damn shame some of her best years was wasted...
★★☆☆☆ Overall Quality
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