FlorisV This is sort of an OK show. There are continuous attempts at quirky, sharp dialogues with a mediocre success rate. But the cast is good and at least it's trying to be something different.Just like in Dead Like Me there's a sarcastic underachieving girl. In Dead Like Me she has to help people cope with their own death. In this show she gets assignments from little statues to cause small but important changes in the lives of people so that they accidentally improve it.This formula gets really old from the second episode on. It usually involves people accidentally meeting the love of their life through a twist of fate, instantly falling in love. This takes away all the intelligence the show has at moments and kind of puts it in a routine, dull, though slightly less sugarcoated Amelie (that French film) mode, the main character trying to be a do-good-er.There's also a tendency to put characters into awkward situations but it's equally cheap and formulaic. I watched two episodes but already felt I knew how each episode was going to be. Disappointingy this show is not about real life (even Dead Like Me, as overrated as it was, seemed to do a better job at that) and ultimately it's as dull-minded and preaching as the average young adult drama series although it so desperately tries not to be. Every single person in the show has a soulmate somewhere that's always within reach and when that person is met, through a twist of fate, there's instant magic. I was hoping this would be a show that would ridicule that sort of cheap lie, the way a lot of Woody Allen films do, showing the randomness of life, but instead there seems to be a genuine belief in fortune cookie and tile wisdoms, the type of thing that you would find in the kitschy souvenir shop that the main character works in.

ReganRebecca I only started watching Wonderfalls after it was cancelled. I know that show runner Bryan Fuller had plans already laid out for multiple seasons but at the same time the show works perfectly on it's own and comes to a satisfying conclusion.The show is about Jaye, the baby in a family of overachievers (and the only one in her family who doesn't have a rhyming name, to emphasize how much she doesn't belong). To the complete befuddlement of her family Jaye works a dead-end retail job, lives in a trailer park and mostly avoid them. That is until one day Jaye begins hearing voices telling her to do things. The voices always belong to an inanimate toy or object with a face on it and though they offer her no explanation for the tasks the coerce her to perform their actions often lead, in befuddling and confusing ways, towards good. There isn't a lot of explanation to the why's and hows of how Jaye hears voices but they aren't needed. The entire cast is perfect. Caroline Dhavernas is great as Jaye, Tyron Leitso is great as a heartbroken bartender who quickly becomes her love interest. The members of her family aren't a good physical match for Dhavernas, but they really do seem like a family and are all hilarious at physical comedy. There are also so many fabulous guest stars that just completely own their episodes. It's a great, funny, smart show that perfectly works as a whole. If only there could be more series as great as this one.

prashamsa21 To be honest I did not like the show at the start. But then I realized that I am like Jane and then I started loving the show. I get why Jane is the way she is.. indifferent and skeptic, but then she really cares about Eric even though she does not want him to know it. And the whole part of their relationship was just heartbreaking. This was the best part of the show for me. Jane- I'm damaged, and it's gonna take me time to heal probably longer than I can guess. Eric- Which is why I think we should absolutely have a date. Jane- What? Eric- You know, a date. Jane- I know what a date is. You're not talking about the fruit, are you? .... Jane- Why would you want to get involved with anything potentially as messy and complicated as... well, me? Eric- Because you make me happy.

juliovangel I saw all these comparisons to a similar show called "Dead like Me" and in my opinion they are spot on. The problem with most of these shows that sell themselves as being "fresh", "underground", "original" with "good dialogue" and "creative" is that they lack back bone for the long run. The writers throw their best ideas in the first episodes and by the time they get to the end of the first/start of the second season, the great twists have already been given away, most of them even early in the series.This show does not deserve this high rating; it obviously follows a pattern that would eventually lead to an early demise.