#jaye tyler

Bryan Fuller's Wonderfalls tv show started airing 20 years ago today. Fell old yet ?

lee pace, being Tall

Title: And the Birds of All Your Teacups Sing Fandom: Wonderfalls Song: "Brave" by The Innocence Mission Summary: Jaye surrenders to destiny. It just takes her a while. A long while.

Created in 2011. Now on a functional streaming site.

Wonderfalls was the second series Bryan Fuller created, after Dead Like Me but before Pushing Daisies. It lasted only four episodes on Fox, but the first season came out as a DVD set. A disaffected Ivy league grad, Jaye, works retail in Niagara Falls. One day, objects start talking to her. They don't leave her alone until, after many Rube Goldbergian convolutions, she helps the character of the week in need, often in ways no one would have ever guessed they needed.

Think Reality Bites meets Big Fish, and you're in the right ballpark. It's very Pushing Daisies like (it even has Lee Pace!), but less twee. Jaye's relationships with her siblings are my favorite part; her perennial student brother (Pace) is working on a PhD in religion and thinks God and/or the Devil are talking to Jaye. Her closeted lesbian, lawyer sister is just FUN.

Greetings from Wonderfalls! Wonderfalls is one of those shows that’s incredibly hard to describe to people. It’s about a slacker gift shop clerk in Niagara Falls who suddenly finds herself tasked with missions from inanimate objects that speak to her. The concept sounds so crazy, that it’s hard to imagine how it could be so appealing. But Wonderfalls is one of those rare shows that can keep you smiling and laughing from start to finish with its offbeat, often over-the-top sensibility, and it is thoroughly enjoyable no matter how many times you watch it. The show is a real challenge to review because there’s so much goodness, it’s hard to decide what to comment on. I almost want to say, “Just go watch it,” and leave it at that, but what kind of review would that be?

In the pilot, we meet Jaye Tyler, our protagonist. Jaye is the perfect embodiment of the stereotypical, pampered Gen-Y slacker, who could have everything in life, but chooses to just glide along with no ambition and nary a care in the world. With a philosophy degree from Brown University, she has managed to achieve her high school yearbook goal of becoming overeducated and unemployable. She’s sarcastic, mean, bitter, and not what you’d call a “people person.” Jaye is so disinterested in and disengaged from life that absolutely nothing can phase her. That is, until the day a wax lion trinket with a smooshed face speaks to her. As in, its mouth moves and words come out.