#wonderfalls

icepixie:

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.

It is my firm belief that Jaye is now the successful author of a webcomic about the homoerotic adventures of a wax lion and a brass monkey. Serves them right.

Now I just really need to rewatch Wonderfalls. I hope it’s streaming someplace because otherwise hunting up DVDs is going to be hell.