--- product_id: 13768875 title: "Wonderfalls - The Complete Series" price: "1293 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/13768875-wonderfalls-the-complete-series store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # Wonderfalls - The Complete Series **Price:** 1293 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wonderfalls - The Complete Series - **How much does it cost?** 1293 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/13768875-wonderfalls-the-complete-series) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Wonderfalls is probably the most hilarious show you've never seen. An hour-long "dramedy" about a young woman who hears the voices of inanimate objects--which instruct her to help out total strangers--the show aired on Fox in early 2004 to critical acclaim and dismal ratings. After airing four times in terrible time slots, the show was quickly canceled, but not before a hue and cry from a small but fervently devoted cadre of fans went up, begging for all 13 episodes to be released on DVD. Thus, the highest-profile DVD release of a canceled show was born, and the nine unaired episodes of Wonderfalls are finally seeing the light of day. You may be wondering: is it worth it to check out a show that was axed so quickly? The answer is an unqualified yes, as Wonderfalls is quirky without being precious, sardonic without being bitter, and smart without being a show-off about it. Jaye (Caroline Dhavernas) is a graduate of Brown University who's opted not to put her education to work, and instead lives in a trailer and works at a tourist shop in Niagara Falls, to the consternation of her affluent, successful family. All seems to be going well for this self-proclaimed slacker, until one day a small toy lion speaks to her in enigmatic epigrams, commanding her to help people. Loath to deal in any compassionate way with the rest of humanity, Jaye warily obeys, if only to make the voices stop. Soon, though, she finds herself to be an unwilling humanitarian and accidental hero when more inanimate objects start talking to her, and more people turn out to need her help. The premise may sound a bit too off-the-beaten-path, but Wonderfalls ' meddling with the ethereal was grounded in a keen awareness of post-college life and the travails befalling young twentysomethings who had no idea where their life was going. And instead of being sanctimonious or inspiring, the show was instead a complex mix of the heartfelt and the angsty, and Dhavernas was one of the most cynically hopeful heroines to grace the small screen. The rest of the cast was also topnotch, including Kate Finneran as Jaye's high-strung sister, Diana Scarwid as her caustic mother, and Tyron Leitso as bartender Eric, whose tentative romance with Jaye was both affecting and hilarious. Think of Wonderfalls as less of a failure and more of a rare opportunity to see some of the most creative television in recent memory. --Mark Englehart The complete series of the TV show Wonderfalls. Review: "Wonderfalls" is wonderful! - [Summary: Too imaginative and quirky for FOX, but "Wonderfalls" is wonderful when you can view all 13 episodes. Higly recommended.] "Wonderfalls" is an episodic comedy, set in Niagara Falls, New York. It's an "hour" (3/4 when subtracting commercial time) show, without a laugh track. Highly innovative, it uses its setting to great effect, including using View-Master slides for act changes and tourist tchotchkies to inspire unexpected acts of compassion in a previously lackluster protagonist. OK, so you're a typical member of Generation Why Me, overeducated and undermotivated. You've found the ideal job working in a Niagara Falls gift shop, where you figure if you show up for work you've accomplished enough for the day. You just got passed over for Assistant Manager, losing out to a mouth breather who's still in high school. And now the knick-knacks you're supposed to be selling are talking to you, telling you to do things. You're not sure whether the voices are coming from God, Satan, or a tumor in your brain, but your biggest question is: "Why me?". That's Jaye Tyler, youngest and weirdest of a family living in Niagara Falls, New York. Parents Darrin and Karen, sister Sharon and brother Aaron don't really understand Jaye. And neither did the FOX Network, which jerked "Wonderfalls" around mercilessly in their schedule and then dropped it, airing only four episodes after paying for thirteen. The people who buy new shows at FOX are a lot smarter than those (ir-)responsible for their schedules. "Wonderfalls" fell victim to the FOX Friday Night Curse, joining "M.A.N.T.I.S.", "Firefly", "Space: Above and Beyond", "Strange Luck", "John Doe", "VR.5", "The Lone Gunmen", "Harsh Realm", "Sliders", "Brimstone", "Tru Calling", "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.", "Alien Nation", "Roar", "Futurama", "Kindred: The Embraced", "Night Visions", "The Tick", "Werewolf", and "Wolf Lake". If you've got an idea for a strange new show, you might be able to sell it to FOX. But expect to be pre-empted, moved to a different night, and have the episode order shuffled. Bleah! Thank you for reading my rant about FOX, and now I promise to get back to reviewing the "Wonderfalls" DVD collection. This includes three discs, with four episodes on Discs 1 and 2, and five on Disc 3. If you managed to catch all four broadcast episodes you've still got nine more that will be new to you. They include answers to questions like "Will Jaye find true love?", and yes, the all-important "Why me?". In addition to the full 13 episodes you'll get commentary on half of them from the same foursome: series star Caroline Dhavernas ("Jaye Tyler"), Katie Finneran ("Sharon Tyler"), and co-creators Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller. Scotch Ellis Loring ("Dr. Ron Campbell", plus the voice of various muses -- the talking animals) joins them on one commentary. And there's even a music video, with Caroline and other cast members lip-synching their way through a rendition of the title song! I'm not going to spoil the actual 13 episodes for you, but I will note that in the commentaries you'll find out the plans for important elements of Season 2 (the lesbian pregnancy) & Season 3 (Jaye in the loony bin), plus character traits of the Tyler clan that never got to show up in Season 1. Republican Party folk ballads, anyone? The video and audio are excellent. While the broadcast episodes were cropped to fill the screen, they're presented in widescreen on DVD. The "Wonderfalls" cast is eclectic. Caroline Dhavernas is a big star in her native Canada, but her repertoire pre-Wonderfalls is entirely dramatic. Happily, she shows a real flair for comedy here. Tyron Leitso ("Eric Gotts") was the de facto hero (i.e. he survived) in "House of the Dead". Katie Finneran mostly does stage work. Lee Pace ("Aaron Tyler") and Tracie Thoms ("Mahandra McGinty") were Juilliard classmates. William Sadler ("Darin Tyler") was the bad guy in "Die Hard 2", the sheriff in "Roswell", and the mummy in "Bordello of Blood". Diana Scarwid ("Karen Tyler") has been acting professionally since 1977, but "Wonderfalls" is her only regular TV series. The locations are *almost* right. Niagara Falls, Ontario substitutes for Niagara Falls, New York. The interiors were shot in Toronto. With environments this close to authentic the lighting and other aspects of exterior shots are wholly believable. If this spoiler-free review leaves you unsure whether to buy the "Wonderfalls" DVD collection, I apologize. I recommend the show highly, and like it so much that I didn't want to detract from your enjoyment in the slightest. It's hard to describe, but worthwhile to those who take a leap of faith. Review: Well, This One Took Me By Surprise... - Being a guy, I thought this would be some generic chick show. You know, in the "Charmed" or "Gilmore Girls" style. As it happened, I came across a re-run one day in my lunch hour from work and decided to watch it as I ate, mainly because I thought the actress playing the lead was insanely hot and it was like two o'clock in the afternoon so there wasn't anything else on TV or anybody else at home to hang out with. Well, I ended up watching about two or three of the episodes when they aired in the local Fox Network and found myself actually getting interested in the freaking plot, much to my surprise (I kept telling myself that I watched it because Jaye was hot, to rationalize it). Some time later I noticed that desertcart had it on sale for about 20 bucks and I figured what the hell. Well, I've just finished watching the whole set and I have to say that it was actually really good. Granted, the show seems written with a female audience in mind, but the thing is that it IS very well written and jumps the gender-division hurdle by not over-doing the chick show angle of the story, unlike the other shows I mentioned that seem to be set in some parallel dimension where everything is slanted towards the X chromosome to the extent that characters are so girly that they ultimately become caricatures. The characters in "Wonderfalls," on the other hand, are interesting and believable regardless of their gender, and the plot is actually absorbing. And the show is really funny, but not in a sit-com-audience-laughing sort of way (this is not "Friends" or the like). Also, as the youngest of a bunch of siblings and I can honestly say that I saw a lot of my family's interpersonal mechanics reflected back at me from the Tylers, down to the maid that's more of a family member than she is hired help. It rang really true, which I've not often seen in TV shows, where family members tend to have impossibly and unbelievably perfect relationships or equally implausible feuds. All the characters were weird enough to make them interesting, but not so much that they became unrealistic and alienated me as a viewer, and the cast really did a great job portraying them sympathetically. Also, despite the fact that the series' premise does center on a girl getting messages from talking animal toys that make her help people, much of the time the supernatural or fantasy element takes the backseat to the real-life stuff going on. It was rather reminiscent of the magical realism school of literature in that respect. Shame this got canned, I would've really liked to see more. But hey, at least it never jumped the shark. I really recommend it, even if you're a guy and skeptical. You might find yourself getting surprised by how good this show is. I did. And the fact that the lead is hot doesn't hurt, either. JM ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Bryan Fuller, Caroline Dhavernas, Diana Scarwid, Jeffrey R. Smith, Jewel Staite, Katie Finneran, Lee Pace, Neil Grayston, Scotch Ellis Loring, Ted Dykstra, Todd Holland, Tracie Thoms, Tyron Leitso, William Sadler Contributor Bryan Fuller, Caroline Dhavernas, Diana Scarwid, Jeffrey R. Smith, Jewel Staite, Katie Finneran, Lee Pace, Neil Grayston, Scotch Ellis Loring, Ted Dykstra, Todd Holland, Tracie Thoms, Tyron Leitso, William Sadler See more | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 730 Reviews | | Format | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen | | Language | English | | Number Of Discs | 3 | | Runtime | 9 hours and 30 minutes | ## Product Details - **Format:** Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen - **Language:** English - **Number Of Discs:** 3 - **Runtime:** 9 hours and 30 minutes ## Images ![Wonderfalls - The Complete Series - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91YiBzfzCVL.jpg) ![Wonderfalls - The Complete Series - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91DKrLo989L.jpg) ![Wonderfalls - The Complete Series - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/910PpcfPULL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Wonderfalls" is wonderful! *by H***S on December 4, 2005* [Summary: Too imaginative and quirky for FOX, but "Wonderfalls" is wonderful when you can view all 13 episodes. Higly recommended.] "Wonderfalls" is an episodic comedy, set in Niagara Falls, New York. It's an "hour" (3/4 when subtracting commercial time) show, without a laugh track. Highly innovative, it uses its setting to great effect, including using View-Master slides for act changes and tourist tchotchkies to inspire unexpected acts of compassion in a previously lackluster protagonist. OK, so you're a typical member of Generation Why Me, overeducated and undermotivated. You've found the ideal job working in a Niagara Falls gift shop, where you figure if you show up for work you've accomplished enough for the day. You just got passed over for Assistant Manager, losing out to a mouth breather who's still in high school. And now the knick-knacks you're supposed to be selling are talking to you, telling you to do things. You're not sure whether the voices are coming from God, Satan, or a tumor in your brain, but your biggest question is: "Why me?". That's Jaye Tyler, youngest and weirdest of a family living in Niagara Falls, New York. Parents Darrin and Karen, sister Sharon and brother Aaron don't really understand Jaye. And neither did the FOX Network, which jerked "Wonderfalls" around mercilessly in their schedule and then dropped it, airing only four episodes after paying for thirteen. The people who buy new shows at FOX are a lot smarter than those (ir-)responsible for their schedules. "Wonderfalls" fell victim to the FOX Friday Night Curse, joining "M.A.N.T.I.S.", "Firefly", "Space: Above and Beyond", "Strange Luck", "John Doe", "VR.5", "The Lone Gunmen", "Harsh Realm", "Sliders", "Brimstone", "Tru Calling", "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.", "Alien Nation", "Roar", "Futurama", "Kindred: The Embraced", "Night Visions", "The Tick", "Werewolf", and "Wolf Lake". If you've got an idea for a strange new show, you might be able to sell it to FOX. But expect to be pre-empted, moved to a different night, and have the episode order shuffled. Bleah! Thank you for reading my rant about FOX, and now I promise to get back to reviewing the "Wonderfalls" DVD collection. This includes three discs, with four episodes on Discs 1 and 2, and five on Disc 3. If you managed to catch all four broadcast episodes you've still got nine more that will be new to you. They include answers to questions like "Will Jaye find true love?", and yes, the all-important "Why me?". In addition to the full 13 episodes you'll get commentary on half of them from the same foursome: series star Caroline Dhavernas ("Jaye Tyler"), Katie Finneran ("Sharon Tyler"), and co-creators Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller. Scotch Ellis Loring ("Dr. Ron Campbell", plus the voice of various muses -- the talking animals) joins them on one commentary. And there's even a music video, with Caroline and other cast members lip-synching their way through a rendition of the title song! I'm not going to spoil the actual 13 episodes for you, but I will note that in the commentaries you'll find out the plans for important elements of Season 2 (the lesbian pregnancy) & Season 3 (Jaye in the loony bin), plus character traits of the Tyler clan that never got to show up in Season 1. Republican Party folk ballads, anyone? The video and audio are excellent. While the broadcast episodes were cropped to fill the screen, they're presented in widescreen on DVD. The "Wonderfalls" cast is eclectic. Caroline Dhavernas is a big star in her native Canada, but her repertoire pre-Wonderfalls is entirely dramatic. Happily, she shows a real flair for comedy here. Tyron Leitso ("Eric Gotts") was the de facto hero (i.e. he survived) in "House of the Dead". Katie Finneran mostly does stage work. Lee Pace ("Aaron Tyler") and Tracie Thoms ("Mahandra McGinty") were Juilliard classmates. William Sadler ("Darin Tyler") was the bad guy in "Die Hard 2", the sheriff in "Roswell", and the mummy in "Bordello of Blood". Diana Scarwid ("Karen Tyler") has been acting professionally since 1977, but "Wonderfalls" is her only regular TV series. The locations are *almost* right. Niagara Falls, Ontario substitutes for Niagara Falls, New York. The interiors were shot in Toronto. With environments this close to authentic the lighting and other aspects of exterior shots are wholly believable. If this spoiler-free review leaves you unsure whether to buy the "Wonderfalls" DVD collection, I apologize. I recommend the show highly, and like it so much that I didn't want to detract from your enjoyment in the slightest. It's hard to describe, but worthwhile to those who take a leap of faith. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well, This One Took Me By Surprise... *by J***S on August 11, 2006* Being a guy, I thought this would be some generic chick show. You know, in the "Charmed" or "Gilmore Girls" style. As it happened, I came across a re-run one day in my lunch hour from work and decided to watch it as I ate, mainly because I thought the actress playing the lead was insanely hot and it was like two o'clock in the afternoon so there wasn't anything else on TV or anybody else at home to hang out with. Well, I ended up watching about two or three of the episodes when they aired in the local Fox Network and found myself actually getting interested in the freaking plot, much to my surprise (I kept telling myself that I watched it because Jaye was hot, to rationalize it). Some time later I noticed that Amazon had it on sale for about 20 bucks and I figured what the hell. Well, I've just finished watching the whole set and I have to say that it was actually really good. Granted, the show seems written with a female audience in mind, but the thing is that it IS very well written and jumps the gender-division hurdle by not over-doing the chick show angle of the story, unlike the other shows I mentioned that seem to be set in some parallel dimension where everything is slanted towards the X chromosome to the extent that characters are so girly that they ultimately become caricatures. The characters in "Wonderfalls," on the other hand, are interesting and believable regardless of their gender, and the plot is actually absorbing. And the show is really funny, but not in a sit-com-audience-laughing sort of way (this is not "Friends" or the like). Also, as the youngest of a bunch of siblings and I can honestly say that I saw a lot of my family's interpersonal mechanics reflected back at me from the Tylers, down to the maid that's more of a family member than she is hired help. It rang really true, which I've not often seen in TV shows, where family members tend to have impossibly and unbelievably perfect relationships or equally implausible feuds. All the characters were weird enough to make them interesting, but not so much that they became unrealistic and alienated me as a viewer, and the cast really did a great job portraying them sympathetically. Also, despite the fact that the series' premise does center on a girl getting messages from talking animal toys that make her help people, much of the time the supernatural or fantasy element takes the backseat to the real-life stuff going on. It was rather reminiscent of the magical realism school of literature in that respect. Shame this got canned, I would've really liked to see more. But hey, at least it never jumped the shark. I really recommend it, even if you're a guy and skeptical. You might find yourself getting surprised by how good this show is. I did. And the fact that the lead is hot doesn't hurt, either. JM ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I Wonder-Wonder, Wonder-Wonder, Why? *by B***T on April 22, 2005* If, in ten million years, aliens come to planet Earth and find a husk of humanity that used to live here and dig up a TV set and DVD player, I pray that Wonderfalls is inside it. Why? Because this story is as human as it gets. Similar to Dead Like Me (which at least aired two seasons on Showtime before being yanked), this story shows the human condition in a funny, touching, and dramatic fashion, but without getting hamfisted by dialogue and/or prankish material. The story revolves around Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas), a twentyish-year-old woman who's graduated from Brown University, and has an overachieving and overbearing family. Having such a wonderful education and incredible family, one would think that she'd be running a Fortune 500 company. But no. She works at a cheesy gift shop in Niagra Falls, New York and lives in a trailer park. She seems happy to let life slip on by and be the proverbial underachiever in a constant alter-ego fashion to her family's wishes. But life has other plans for Jaye. After suddenly losing out on a managerial position to a zit-faced coworker, Jaye suddenly begins to hear inanimate objects speak to her (a wax lion, pink lawn flamingos, a bronze monkey bookend, a stuffed lizard, etc.), and they tell her to do really bizarre things... like not giving someone a refund who obviously deserves it, or throwing wine on an old high school friend's dress during a reunion, or getting a disenfranchised nun back into her convent. The list goes on for thirteen amazingly brilliant episodes. And each event (whether Jaye likes it or not) pulls her closer and closer to being a more integrated member of the human race. Added to the story is a lot of nice little nooks and crannies known as side-stories. First, and foremost, is Jaye's family. Her author mother, Diane Scarwid, hits the perfect pitch, worried about her daughter, but also worried about her own writing career. Her physician father, William Sandler, is brilliantly portrayed as the head of the household, trying to save Jaye from herself and getting glimpses of his other daughter's (Kate Finneran) lesbian activities. Jaye's brother, Lee Pace, is a theology major and is the first to glimpse Jaye's strange conversations with coffee creamers and the like. Secondly, and thankfully, there's the love of Jaye's life - played perfectly by Tyron Leitso - waiting in the wings. They're both damaged people who just might make one whole person if they can ever get their lives together (the show weaves us in and out of their on-again off-again relationship and I, for one, cheered whenever they got close to one another). The fact that this beautifully done series got cancelled after only four episodes should be labeled as a crime. FOX TV executives should be strung up by their shorts for getting rid of this thought-provoking show (which is probably WHY it got cancelled... you have to THINK rather than just sit in front of the TV screen while watching such mindless cr@* like The Swan or some other drivel.) At least the producers were wise enough to produce all of the season's thirteen episodes quickly and effectively. Even though they never aired, we can at least revel in this great DVD package that shows all of them. 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