Wilfred

This show debuted on FX a couple of weeks ago. My son and I watched the first episode last night after my wife went to bed and we will watch the second one which we have on the Tivo soon.

Starring Elijah Wood as a depressed young man named Ryan and Jason Gann ( who is also a co creator of the show ) as Wilfred. Ryan sees his attractive neighbors dog Wilfred as an Australian man in a dog suit. However everyone else sees Wilfred as a dog. We in watching the show also see him as a man in a dog suit.

This sounds like a loopy premise for a show and it surely is. Wilfred drinks, smokes dope, curses and loves to get close to human women. When we see the man in the dog suit putting his face in the chest of a woman who stops to pat him the waitress only sees a cute dog. The jokes become obvious and juvenile and yet in a television world where most everything is the same there is something at least interesting about this show.

I do not know where it will go, I do not know if it really can go anywhere worth following but I am willing to watch a few more episodes to see.

Elijah Wood is good in his role though all he really does is play straight man to Gann as Wilfred.

If you want to see something different, expirimental and apparently wildly popular in Australia give this show a try. We should at least give something different a look unless we want to continue to see show after show like it's predecessor.