Is she insane? Or is she, perhaps, a modern-day Joan of Arc getting instructions from a higher power in an off-center way? "Are you Satan? Or God?" she queries the lion. The pilot episode, "Wax Lion," introduces delightful Canadian actress Caroline Dhavernas as Jaye Tyler, a souvenir-shop slacker floored (literally) when a misshapen lion from the Mold-a-Rama machine begins talking to her.
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"Look, I knew what the realities are," says Minear, a veteran of "Angel" and "The X-Files" who is now at work on the upcoming Fox series "The Inside." "I also know that most shows won't make it five years or whatever." It is finished So, when crafting the first 13-episode story arc of "Wonderfalls," Minear and his colleagues "made sure it was one story that has a conclusion in episode 13," he says - thinking, even at the time, that "perhaps these things would live on DVD, and people to feel that they had a full experience." The result is a nearly perfect miniseries in which "Wonderfalls" shines even more brightly than it did in its brief TV run. The DVD set "gives me large satisfaction," says Tim Minear, who was one of the three executive producers of "Wonderfalls" along with co-creators Bryan Fuller and Todd Holland. Thirteen episodes had already been produced, and now the full series is available as a three-disc DVD boxed set, complete with a documentary, audio commentary and other juicy extras. But when "Wonderfalls" was canceled after just four airings, the show didn't die. Even to be considered a standard-issue flop, a show has to approach double-digit viewership.
Delayed until spring, then assigned an impossible Friday night time slot, the oddball comedy-drama about a young woman getting cryptic messages from the tchotchkes in a Niagara Falls gift shop drew only 4 million viewers in each of its first two outings.
But in the case of "Wonderfalls," the writing on the wall was clear from the start. In most cases, the panic might have been premature. By GAIL PENNINGTON KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS The day after "Wonderfalls" made its debut on Fox last March, the creators and cast began visiting a "save our show" Web site. Too quirky for a mass audience, the show fits right in with the own-your-own crowd.