Wilfred

[BillBrasky]

I guess we've never really had an official thread for this show.

Season 2 sort of semi-officially began last night with a new episode featuring Robin Williams.
The real start to Season 2 happens next week along with the premieres of "Louie" Season 3, Charlie Sheen's "Anger Management" and "Brand X" with Russell Brand.

[Steven_M]

Once Brand X's run is done, look forward to seeing "Totally Biased" with W. Kamau Bell (Executive produced by Chris Rock)

http://www.chrisrock.com/news/totall...-premiere-date

[UndefinedNY]

Im so confused by the season premiere, please someone explain wtf all that was about...

[BillBrasky]

In the season finale last season, Jenna (Wilfred's owner) had to take a drug test for a new job she was being hired for. When she took the drug test, she discovered that she was pregnant so she got back together with her old boyfriend, Drew (Chris Klein). Wilfred got hit by a car and afterwards had amnesia and did not remember Ryan. The season ended with Ryan running back to his house remembering a will Wilfred was writing before the accident. Ryan tried to open the door to his basement only to discover it was a closet. A tennis ball (linking back to the first episode of the season) rolled out of the closet, leaving Ryan puzzled.

This season picked up four months later, where Ryan is in a mental institution. He apparently hasn't seen Jenna or Wilfred in that time, but, after talking with his therapist, he meets them only to learn that Jenna and Drew have broken up. Wilfred (handicapped due to his accident in the first season finale) talks with him about why Ryan sees Wilfred as a man, Ryan's therapist ups his dosage of pills, and eventually tries to give Ryan electroshock therapy. Wilfred and Bear break Ryan out of the mental institution, only for Ryan to realize that the entire mental institution, and the events of the episode so far, are a daydream. Ryan actually has a new, boring corporate job, and the hallucinations he had been having periodically throughout the episode of sitting at a table with co-workers and holding a tennis ball are actually his real-life job. Ryan goes home, where he sees Jenna and Drew embracing, assumed to be still dating, outside of his house. Inside, Ryan goes to the closet, breaks through the wall, and finds the basement where he and Wilfred had hung out during the first season, but everything is boarded up and dusty. He finds Wilfred's will, which only says one sentence: "Keep digging," a metaphoric piece of advice to Ryan. Ryan then proceeds to clean up the basement, even getting out his bong and putting it on the table, hinting that he will continue to hang out with Wilfred.

[Toddler]

Yes, but is the basement real, or a construct of Ryan's delusions? If it's real, who boarded it up and built a closet, and why? Or maybe this show is like Lost, where they are just making it up as they go along under a guise of building to coherence and closure, in the name of churning out episodes.

[slothborn]

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[jkwall]

That was left intentionally open-ended. So people will, you know, keep watching.

[slothborn]

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[sparklepicnic]

I have no idea if it's because I got a dog last year, but this season is absolutely great. I was kind of 'meh' on last season, but this time around I am so tickled pink. The episode where Wilfred keeps wandering into scenes with a bloody mouth and telling Ryan "someone ate part of Greg's brains. ewwww." I went bonkers. Fact. I hope they renew this always.

[BillBrasky]

FX has picked up Wilfred for a third season, and Deadline reports the show will have two new bosses in the writers' room when it comes back. David Zuckerman, who adapted Wilfred from the Australian original and served as showrunner for Seasons 1 and 2, is choosing to step down, and he's being replaced by two staff Wilfred writers/producers, Reed Agnew and Eli Jorné. This is FX's first sitcom pick-up since renewing Louie in August.

[winnie4theTOUchDowN]

Did anyone here watch the original Australian series? Is it still worth checking out if you've seen the US remake or did the original series have some different stories than the US?

[BillBrasky]

I watched a marathon of the Australian series on IFC, and it is a lot slower and (to be completely honest) more boring than the US version. Because of the understandably lower budget, there are not as many locations in the Australian series and not as many characters (mostly the main guy, Wilfred, and his girlfriend). In fact, the main character's girlfriend plays into the storylines a lot more than her equivalent in the US series, since she and Adam (the Elijah Wood equivalent) live together.

Adding Elijah Wood improved things a lot, as he is a much better actor than the guy from the Australian series, and adding the "Family Guy" writer/producer means that the jokes are funnier in the US version. The Australian version is a lot quieter and more low-key.