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March 28, 2013 Wonderfalls S01E02: Pink Flamingos

SUMMARY Jaye and her father are in a car, getting ready to go out for breakfast together. As they are leaving, he has to clear the driveway of recycling and garbage bins, and a yard flamingo chastises Jaye to “get off [her] ass” and help her father. When Jaye shuts the window, she accidentally hits […]

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March 25, 2013 LWST: Better Off Ted S01E08 – You Are The Boss Of Me

Standard operating procedure for ensemble shows is to pair the ensembles off in different configurations and situations. If you have strong enough characters and good writing, these pairings don’t seem forced or weird, they just grow from what would naturally happen if those personalities were put together in those circumstances. The trick can be either […]

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March 21, 2013 Wonderfalls S01E01: Wax Lion

SUMMARY In the pilot episode of Wonderfalls, we are introduced to our main character, Jaye Tyler. She works in a tacky gift shop in Niagara Falls, Buffalo, New York, despite having completed a philosophy degree at Brown University. After being passed over for a promotion to assistant manager (which goes to high schooler Alec AKA […]

March 18, 2013 LWST: Better Off Ted S01E07 – Get Happy

I worked for UPS for a few months during college, and it was a completely different thing than working for the smaller places where I had been employed up to that point. For one, I wasn’t very important (until I messed up) – I didn’t matter, the numbers mattered. I got moved from loading, to […]

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March 14, 2013 Introduction to Wonderfalls Rewatch

Wonderfalls: One of my favorite shows that was never really given a chance. The show was cancelled after four episodes aired, but luckily for the small but devoted fanbase, an entire 13-episode season was filmed and later released on DVD. This show suffers from having an extremely odd premise. Why is this a bad thing? […]

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