The only good thing about being sick is that you get to sit in bed and watch DVD’s guilt free.

Richard and Chris has loaned me their copy of Wonderfalls a month ago and I finally got a chance to sit down and watch the entire series. I remember when this show was struggling to stay on the air. I remember getting emails from fans begging me to link to online petitions and do my part to sway the network. And I remember, exactly, what I thought at the time.

“I’m a Joan of Arcadia man. I gots no times for this Wonderfalls knock-off stuff.”

This is the second time I’ve missed the boat with a series and only discovered it after it was wrongfully given an unfair time-slot and condemned to failure before it ever had a chance to succeed. I’ve been through this already with Firefly (curiously, another series touched by Jewel Staite).

If you have not checked out Wonderfalls yet, I want to officially recommend it to you. The series never got a chance, but the DVD provides a very satisfying 13 episodes that give you a beginning, middle and ending to a chapter of the Talyor family and friends. I was surprisingly okay with there not being more to watch, which is a testament to the way the writers wrapped things up for me.

With the way things are going for Network TV these days, I wonder how far off America is from adopting the format of shows overseas. It seems like a lot of british series and even Japanese series have their seasons plotted out as one-time-efforts. Sometimes a 2nd season is a huge departure from the first season of the same show. Would that be so bad?

If it meant getting 13 episodes per season as satisfying as Wonderfalls, I might prefer it.