For some reason, Fox keeps getting pretty good shows as their mid-season replacements, yet insists on being idiotic about them.  Take last year's Firefly for instance, which it put on Friday evenings when nobody the shows are geared towards (15-35yrs, largely idiosyncratic) watch TV, and then decided to run out of order despite being an arc-driven storyline.  The same Firefly that did well enough in DVD sales post-cancellation that there is now a movie in development a year later...

This year's Firefly is the show Wonderfalls.  It's by Tim Minear, a former bigwig on Buffy, Angel and Firefly, as well as the guy who created Dead Like Me.  It premiered last Friday and was one of those shows that I was "hmm?" about the first time but after it simmered in my head a day or so was "hmm!" about.  Watched it again this evening - hilarious!  It's so off-beat, and I love the way the characters talk.

The plot, basically, revolves around a 24-year-old woman who works at a gift shop in Niagara Falls.  She's one of those ivy-league educated types but with a degree in philosophy (and no technology to fall back on like Benn) so she's basically unemployable.  But she's snarky as heck.  And then she possibly goes insane as these inanimate objects start talking to her leading her to do oddball acts.

No denying it - it sounds weird.  But it really is good.

I encourage you to watch it.  Many of you who read this site often know the types of shows I like and tend to like them yourselves (some of you tend to wait until years later, but still grow obsessive about them), so this time jump in while fresh!  Watch Wonderfalls!

The first episode is being re-shown Thursday night at 8pm CST, and the regular night is Friday at 8pm CST as well (you can always set your VCR or buy that Tivo you've been wanting), both on FOX.