Wilfred: Season 1, Episode 11 “Doubt” (B)
I’m still enjoying this show, but I do have to admit that this episode wasn’t really terribly productive. The main reason that Ryan’s interactions with Wilfred are so funny is that he’s the only one who can see and hear Wilfred. Last week, it was revealed that Ryan’s mother talks to her dog in exactly the same way, but this is different. For one thing, Bruce isn’t an altogether interesting character, and he’s plenty peculiar, which isn’t exactly necessary on a show already filled with weird characters. Wilfred does a good enough job on his own messing with Ryan’s head, and having another person there to play mind games with Ryan seems excessive. The gun-with-blanks scene was considerably over-the-top, and things definitely fell apart in the already stretched-thin logic department at that point. Bruce did raise a few good points about the ways in which Wilfred manipulates Ryan, like his intrusion on his dating life and his poking a hole in his condom. I was pleased to see Katy Mixon from “Eastbound & Down” as Angelique, Wilfred’s choice to be Ryan’s date, even if, like many of the other guest stars on this show, she didn’t have a terribly large or distracting part. I would also have loved to see more of Kristen at yoga since she was always one of the zanier personalities on this show. I’m a sucker for Wilfred preying on gullible Ryan, and therefore his repeated stories about how he met Bruce via different Matt Damon roles was rather hilarious.
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