Relative to Arrested Development, the series was a “complex comedy” about a zany, dysfunctional, upper class, and white family. Joan of Arcadia’s core premise is in fact the same as Wonderfalls’ on paper: a young woman receives the ability to communicate with “God” and is compelled to help those around her. One of the most remarkable features of the series retrospect is that it was on the air more or less simultaneously with two eerily similar network shows- Joan of Arcadia (2003-2005, CBS) and Arrested Development (2003-2006, 2013, 2019, Fox and Netflix). Her father is a successful doctor, her mother an acclaimed writer, her elder sister a famous lawyer, and her elder brother an aspiring theologian their names are Darrin, Karen, Sharon, and Aaron, respectively.Įach episode sees Jaye struggle with her newfound powers, grappling with her own sanity, courting her hot (but recently married!) love interest Eric (Tyrone Letso), and generally making the world a better place–accidentally, despite her worst intentions. In Wonderfalls, Caroline Dhavernas stars as Jaye Tyler, a misanthropic 24-year-old Brown University philosophy graduate now living in a trailer park and working at a Niagara Falls gift shop. The rest were ultimately released via DVD some years later, but the series has never been licensed digitally and, as of 2020, appears totally orphaned. A 13 episode season was produced, but only four of these ever aired. It was created by Bryan Fuller, co-executive produced by Todd Holland and Tim Minear, and was not a financial success. You probably hadn’t heard of it until today. 1 Every episode, these muses enigmatically coerce the heroine into performing acts of kindness, thus creating a fairly standard ‘client’ TV mystery-ish series format. In 2004, Fox greenlit a television series called Wonderfalls about a chronically apathetic “over-educated under-achiever” who is bequeathed the superpower of divination-but only through talking to the spirits (henceforth ‘muses’) that reside within toys, statues, and stuffed animals.
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