Wonderfalls is one my favorite shows ever. FUX cancelled it before the best episode. Like Whedon, Fuller can choose an actor and write them a role that's so perfect for them it's hard for them to ever find another like it.
All of Fuller's shows are surreal, whimsical with dark humor. That's why I loved them, they were different than most shows on tv where it's all about the manufactured drama for dramas sake. That get so effing boring to see on all tv shows.
Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies and the first arc of Heroes were all brilliant. Fuller and Whedon are my favorite show creators whose creativity is always shunned by the stupid network exes who think they know what audiences want (with The Avengers they let Joss Whedon, be Joss Whedon and it was worked!), but apparently watching paint by the number shows (that's why we have so many of the same cop shows and doctor shows and reality shows) is what people want. American television viewers don't appropriate intelligently written shows. That's why I've started watching British shows (and some shows on HBO and Showtime), they let their writers do whatever they want.
Mockingbird Lane also had the network exes messing around with it and changing the vision Fuller had in mind. That's why he left! It was creative differences. This pilot wasn't that great because they didn't let him do what he wanted, he had to change it for them.
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