# Wonderfalls on DVD!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 11, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598 "2005-02-11T16:16:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/1 "2005-02-11T16:16:22Z")
[Rejoice!](http://www.suntimes.com/output/television/wkp-news-wonder11.html)
All 13 episodes of _Wonderfalls_ are coming out on DVD! Remember we only got to see the first four before those dolts at Fox cancelled it.
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### Author:  [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/2 "2005-02-11T16:21:08Z")
$27.99 at Amazon, my friends.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/3 "2005-02-11T16:23:06Z")
Excellent! I didn’t like it enough to buy, but I definitely liked it enough to rent; I’ll keep an eye out for it!
Daniel
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### Author:  [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/4 "2005-02-11T16:29:53Z")
The first disk is already in my Netflix queue. Can’t wait!
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/5 "2005-02-11T16:31:16Z")
My copy’s already in the mail.
You know, I can’t help but feel that we’re rewarding the networks for cancelling good shows when we immediately buy up the DVD when it comes out. If we keep rewarding bad behavior, how will they ever learn?
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/6 "2005-02-11T17:01:58Z")
Already bought and watched. And started a thread about it.
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### Author:  [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/7 "2005-02-12T03:20:32Z")
I only saw the first couple of episodes, but I really liked it, especially the very first scene where the heroine recounts the story of the Maid of the Mist. Cracked me up! 😃
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### Author:  [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/8 "2005-02-12T03:23:16Z")
Mine is on it’s way from Amazon as well. Happy Birthday to me.
/Ms Cyros
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### Author:  [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/9 "2005-04-25T15:03:30Z")
_Spoilers for the end of Wonderfalls_
What ever happened to Sharon and Beth? Did they get back together, or did Beth go back with her husband? I wasn’t completely clear on it.
I liked this series in the end and thought the actors did a marvelous job. They all seemed so into their roles. The only thing I wished was that the problems Jaye solved were more world-shattering, apocalypse-type stuff. Maybe that’s just my love of Buffy/Angel showing through, but it would’ve been nice for Jaye to do more than just help a girl meet the right guy or help her parents’ housekeeper find her parents.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/10 "2005-04-25T15:38:27Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#):
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> The only thing I wished was that the problems Jaye solved were more world-shattering, apocalypse-type stuff. Maybe that’s just my love of Buffy/Angel showing through, but it would’ve been nice for Jaye to do more than just help a girl meet the right guy or help her parents’ housekeeper find her parents.
Interesting–I kinda liked the small scale of everything. It made the show feel very intimate, in a way; had she been solving grand problems, it wouldn’t’ve had the same aesthetic to it.
I really hope the show’s lack of success doesn’t jinx Tim Minear’s career: it was a great show, and I’d love to see future projects with him.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/11 "2005-04-25T16:14:47Z")
I disagree – I liked that Jaye’s efforts were all so local and that, in fact, it was herself she was helping all the time.
The last we saw of Beth, Thomas had visited her. We saw him leave happily. Then Sharon came and staked her claim. It stands as just an unresolved personal issue and it’s not clear what Beth and Thomas were up to during his visit – maybe she just agreed to go out with him. In the commentaries to the parrot episode, however, the writers said that the plan for S2 was to have Sharon get pregnant as a result of having sex with Beth so soon after Beth had had sex with Thomas. An earlier cut had a picture of sperm swimming from left to right after the Thomas/Beth scene, and then after the scene with Sharon and Beth there’d be one with sperm swimming from right to left. But the studio thought it was too creepy (and IIRC by the time they filmed the episode it was pretty clear that there wouldn’t be an S2), so they took it out.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/12 "2005-04-25T16:30:01Z")
To be clear – I’m disagreeing with **Deadly**.
Minear is working on “The Inside,” a new fall show for FOX about a group of FBI agents. I’ve read a little about it and it seems pretty interesting. Katie Finneran (Sharon) is on the show, as is Adam Baldwin.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/13 "2005-04-25T16:35:30Z")
> [@Cliffy](#):
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> Minear is working on “The Inside,” a new fall show for FOX about a group of FBI agents. I’ve read a little about it and it seems pretty interesting. Katie Finneran (Sharon) is on the show, as is Adam Baldwin.
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> –Cliffy
Given that it’s a Fox show and Fox doesn’t seem to give anything a chance that isn’t The Simple Life, I wouldn’t hold out much hope for The Inside. It’ll be wonderful and we’ll see about 3 episodes.
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/14 "2005-04-25T17:02:42Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> Interesting–I kinda liked the small scale of everything. It made the show feel very intimate, in a way; had she been solving grand problems, it wouldn’t’ve had the same aesthetic to it.
I also liked the small scale of the problems she had to solve.
Add in the pronoun problem (“Save him from her” - huh? Save who from whom, exactly? 😃 ), and she had enough work to do.
Damn shame this one got canned.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderfalls-on-dvd/289598/15 "2005-04-25T17:21:08Z")
> [@Mauvaise](#):
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> Given that it’s a Fox show and Fox doesn’t seem to give anything a chance that isn’t The Simple Life, I wouldn’t hold out much hope for The Inside. It’ll be wonderful and we’ll see about 3 episodes.
I’m not sure – from what I’ve read, it’s rather less genre and quirky than Minear’s previous shows. That’s hard row to hoe, especially on network TV. This is a procedureal show about FBI agents – I think there may be a little more slack given here.
–Cliffy