Wilfred: Season 4, Episodes 1 and 2 “Amends” and “Consequences” (B+)
There’s no show as singularly offbeat, crude, and depressing as this one. As it enters its final season, which will air on brand-new network FXX, this show is still very much the same series it always is, albeit now permanently confined to miserable endings, no longer featuring Wilfred and Ryan getting high in the basement. Starting with Ryan’s dad still alive and Ryan’s brave choice of the job over Wilfred provided some misleading false hope, since his father was destined to die again, and, worse than that, was disappointed with Ryan when he did since Wilfred had e-mailed him a picture of the two of them riding in Ryan’s car. Meeting the three kids in the dog suits doing the visitation ritual was just peculiar, and I much more enjoyed Wilfred’s sob story about how he never got the chance to make amends with the post he used to lick. Episode two featured more of the traditional Wilfred-trying-to-sabotage-Ryan plotline, trying to break Jenna and Drew up so that she could be with Ryan. Drew as usual was an oaf, but a nice one, and his enthusiasm for camping made his subsequent fall and breakup seem less deserved. Ryan and Jenna are not destined to be together, mainly because Ryan has a closer bond with Wilfred than his owner, but I also think that this season is going to involve Ryan getting closer to the truth about what Wilfred is, interfacing with Harriet Sansom Harris’ gruff lawyer boss and trying to stay sane while doing it.
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