SummaryBased on the popular Australian show of the same name, adapted for FX by David Zuckerman. Jason Gann, the star of the original series, has agreed to be involved in the new project.
SummaryBased on the popular Australian show of the same name, adapted for FX by David Zuckerman. Jason Gann, the star of the original series, has agreed to be involved in the new project.
Fair warning, dear reader: Wilfred is intensely vulgar, and only guys around the age of 28 whose ears, and sensibilities, are covered with scar tissue will find nothing offensive. Otherwise, it's very funny.
I like this show. It's far from my favorite show, but still it has a "unique" quality about it that keeps me intrigued enough to stay up to date with the show.
How is this show not a massive hit? It has the dark humor of Sunny in Philadelphia but enough plot and warm, fuzzy moments that the first seasons of The Office had in it. It took me about 5 episodes in the first season to start appreciating it, but I am incredibly hooked now. Definitely deserves a better rating than this; those critics don't know what they're talking about!
While all the philosophical, existential and surprisingly intimate moments of their friendship are the wonderfully surprising backbone to Wilfred, the hook is the absurdist situations and brilliant humor.
It seems like the show will basically be a weekly dose of two-steps-forward-one-step-back for Ryan with Wilfred as his teacher/tormentor. Wilfred certainly has moments of high (and low) comedy but it's also hard to imagine the premise won't get stale pretty fast.
Wilfred is still a work in progress; in the early stages, the relationship between the dog and the man feels a little claustrophobic, but as the episodes progress, Ryan's world begins to expand a bit, which is a good thing.
This show is a very interesting combination of two genres. I think people who dislike this show, are people who fail to understand that this show is not suppose to be "laugh out loud" funny. It's a touching black comedy. Each episode challenges a new moral and everyday emotions people feel. The comedy is more humorous then funny but it really doesn't matter because the development for Elijah Woods character "Ryan" and Jason Gann being the supportive but devious dog "Wilfred", makes the show worth watching every episode. My only fear is that the show will start to lose it's creativity as the series goes on because it isn't easy to write each episode based around one single moral.
Despite being airlifted from the original Aussie series, the US version manages to maintain and at times improve on its predecessor. Elijah Wood goes blow for blow with Jason Gann and the pair forge and endearing onscreen vibe that's kept aloft mostly throughout the run of the show. Unfortunately, the storyline loses focus a bit too often en route to the final fourth season to move into the upper tier of television comedies. Still, it's clever slash surreal approach to the material more often than not makes it worth the time.
I didn't find it funny, nor did I enjoy it. I can't even remember what it's about, to be fair. I was more annoyed by Wood's performance to get the jokes.
I tried a couple of shows but could never get into it. I remember trying to watch Dilbert on TV but found that extremely painful (too much like real life) -- perhaps that is my problem with this show.