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– – The off-beat comedy Wilfred is returning to the FX network for another season starting June 28th.  The protagonist of the show is a depressed former lawyer, Ryan Newman, who has unsuccessfully attempted to kill himself;  following that effort, his neighbor’s dog, Wilfred, now appears to him as a foul-mouthed Australian in an obvious dog suit!  The dog, while selfish and worldly, serves as a helpful guide and mentor to the often clueless human.

This isn’t a show for kids, with drug use portrayed and the humor frequently raunchy.  That having been said, however, the show has surreal and existential overtones, and mixes shock and hilarity with the absurd.  We were asked during the previous season to “embrace the mystery” of Wilfred’s existence, and it was unclear as to whether the dog-person actually existed, was a projected manifestation of Ryan’s animal impulses, or if the human was simply insane and Wilfred a hallucination or a medication effect.   Some answers may be revealed in the upcoming season, one promo for which is a spoof of the classic spaghetti sequence from Lady and the Tramp!

This entry was posted on April 11, 2012 at 2:22 am and is filed under absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, furry, strange, television. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

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