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Wonderfalls

Starring Caroline Dhavernas, Tyron Leitso, Tracie Thoms
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Wonderfalls is a quirky, witty show that FOX cancelled way before they should have (and is that really a surprise?). I grabbed all of the episodes off of LOGO with my TIVO, since I missed it the first time around. I wish I had watched it the first time around, because it was a really great show. I enjoyed it so much, I’ll probably end up buying the DVDs.

Wonderfalls is the name of the Niagara Falls store where Jaye (Caroline Dhavernas) works. Jaye is your typical Gen Y’er ( a fact that is made fun of in an episode). She graduated from an Ivy League school with a degree in philosophy, lives in a trailer park in an I Dream of Jeannie style trailer, and works a meaningless retail job because she doesn?t want to have any responsibility. (Think Clerks — Just because they serve you, doesn’t mean they like you.) One day, Jaye hears a voice, and realizes that the trinket animals in the Wonderfalls shop are talking to her. Not only that, but they are telling her to do some pretty weird stuff, like break taillights, lick light switches, and not give people their change. Eventually the reasoning behind these strange requests come to light, and the sometimes law breaking requests end up making people’s lives better.

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Millennium Season 2

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I have always been a fan of Chris Carter, and I loved this series about a serial profiler who joins The Millennium Group, former law officers who contract out as experts to various law enforcement agencies. Naturally, I bought it on DVD. The series doesn’t hold up like The X-Files does, mostly because we’ve already passed the Millennium and I disliked the Owls & Roosters division in the Group that you see in this season. However, it’s still got the excellent Lance Hendrickson, whose face is expressive in ways most actors can’t even fathom, Megan Gallagher, Kristen Cloke (who definitely needs to find more work), and Terry O’Quinn. Plus, you can’t help but love a series where the main character is named after the Pixies lead singer, Frank Black.

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The Twilight Zone: The 80s Season One

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When I saw that they had released The Twilight Zone series from the 80s on DVD, I was so excited. I remember watching this series with my family, just like all of those old series like Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team. I must admit, it was worth watching, if just for nostalgia?s sake. Some of the stories were cheesy and very, very dated, but others were still very poignant. It?s amazing how some of these stories have stuck in my head all of these years, and so many of the young actors that show up that have moved on to bigger things.

Here are some that for some reason or another, have stuck in my head since the first time I saw them, were especially good and 80?s, or just really good stories. Some comments might be a bit spoilerish.
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