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Wonderfalls (2004)
10/10 * Amazing Show with Character
This series is about a college-graduate girl, Jaye, who has chosen to live in a trailer park and work at a gift shop in her hometown. Her family is pretty eccentric and become increasingly more involved in her life (her father is a doctor, mother an author, sister a lawyer, and brother a student studying religion). Her best friend, Mahandra, provides for her a way to sort things out and the new bartender, Eric, despite his complicated situation, quickly catches her eye--even though she may not admit it even to herself.
Jaye was pretty self-centered but becomes increasingly more aware of others when inanimate animal figures suddenly become animate and tell her to do things, which she always eventually does--at first to avoid their singing, which keeps her up all night, and then because she sees the good effects her "forced" actions bring. She debates if God or Satan is speaking to her and thus also debates her sanity, but can't bring herself to ignore the animals' biddings. What the animals say are never as straight-forward as they initially seem and there's no way one could guess their true meaning (unless he/she's seen the episode already) so they always keep you guessing--not to mention laughing! The dialog of the characters on this show is excellent and there's also a lot of inner conflict in the different characters regarding religion, sanity, and identity.
All the actors in this show portrayed their characters to a "T" and interact so well together! I can't imagine a better selection.
Big Fish (2003)
10/10* Wonderful Film About the Twist of Fantasy and Life
This story is very good, what else would you expect from a Burton/Elfman combo? It's a great mixture of fantasy with reality and will be a movie you want to watch over and over again! This movie is about a man, Ed Bloom, who told stories all his life OF his life. Now he's old and dying and his only son, Will (who is recently married and expecting a child of his own), has come to see him after years of not speaking. As Will grew older he began to see the "lies" or embellishments of his fathers stories and only wanted the straight-up truth--which is something Ed just wasn't capable of. Will since dismissed everything his father ever told him about himself and went on to live his very practical and clean-cut life. It is not until his father's funeral, when he meets all the characters from his father's life stories, that Will sees his father really was telling the truth about his life and only added a little imagination and fantasy to his stories.
Pushing Daisies (2007)
Cute Series--Give it a Try
The basic plot of this series is about a boy, Ned, who discovers that he is able to bring people back from the dead by touching them; however, not without conditions and consequences. He finds out that if he touches them again, they die and if he doesn't touch them again within a minute, another dies in their place. Parts of the stories are narrated and take place when Ned is a man working in a pie shop. He takes on a side gig with a detective where he brings the dead back to life (for less than a minute, with the exception of his childhood love, Chuck, whom he allows to live and who joins in on their adventures) to ask how they died so that they can collect the reward money. While the murder mysteries are what may seem like a huge focus of the series (some dislike the series since the cases are not so difficult and not so gruesome), the real story is about the human interactions, internal conflicts, and personal development. That being said, the stories become much more interesting with each episode...so I'd recommend watching through multiple episodes (and in order!) before you make your decision on how you feel about the series. The stories are always really cute and leave the viewer feeling more light and happy. Definitely worth watching.