Wilfred (U.S. season 4)

Wilfred (U.S. season 4)
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Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	10
Release
Original network	FXX
Original release	June 25 –; August 13, 2014
Season chronology
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	List of Wilfred (U.S. TV series) episodes

Last updated April 29, 2019

The fourth and final season of Wilfred , premiered on FXX on June 25, 2014.^[1] The fourth season consisted of 10 episodes. The series is based on the original Australian series, Wilfred, and stars Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Fiona Gubelmann and Dorian Brown.

<i>Wilfred</i> (U.S. TV series) American sitcom television series

Wilfred is an Australian-American comedy television series that aired from June 23, 2011 to August 13, 2014 for a total of four seasons. Based on the Australian SBS One series of the same name, it stars Elijah Wood and series co-creator Jason Gann, reprising his role of the eponymous dog. The series was adapted for the American television channel FX by Family Guy veteran David Zuckerman. Season 4 premiered on June 25, 2014. Wilfred moved to FXX for its fourth and final season.

FXX is an American pay television channel owned by the Walt Disney Television unit of The Walt Disney Company through FX Networks, LLC. It is the sister channel of FX, with its programming focusing on original and acquired comedy series and feature films for a primary demographic of men aged 18–34.

Wilfred is an Australian comedy television series created by Adam Zwar, Jason Gann and Tony Rogers based on their award-winning 2002 short film. The story follows the lives of the eponymous dog Wilfred, his owner Sarah, and her boyfriend Adam, who sees Wilfred as a man in a dog suit. It was directed by Tony Rogers, produced by Jenny Livingston and stars Gann, Zwar and Cindy Waddingham.

Synopsis

In the fourth and final season of Wilfred, Ryan tries to figure out the truth behind "The Flock of the Grey Shepard".

Cast

Main cast

Elijah Wood as Ryan Newman (10 episodes)
Jason Gann as Wilfred (10 episodes)
Fiona Gubelmann as Jenna Mueller (9 episodes)
Dorian Brown as Kristen Newman (7 episodes)

Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor, film producer, and DJ. He is known for portraying Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003).

Jason Gann is an Australian actor, writer, and executive producer. He is best known for his role as the title character in the Australian comedy series Wilfred, directed by Tony Rogers, and the U.S. reboot of the same name.

Fiona Victoria Gubelmann is an American actress. A native of California, she has appeared in a number of single-episode roles in television, including CSI: NY, My Name Is Earl and Knight Rider, as well as a handful of films including Employee of the Month and Downstream. She starred as Jenna in the FX comedy series Wilfred.

Special guest cast

Mimi Rogers as Catherine (3 episodes)
John Michael Higgins as Dr. Cahill (2 episodes)
James Remar as Henry ("Amends")
Rutger Hauer as Dr. Grummons ("Answers")
Allison Mack as Amanda ("Forward")
William Baldwin as Bruce ("Patterns")
Tobin Bell as Charles ("Happiness")

Mimi Rogers film and television actress from the United States

Miriam "Mimi" Rogers is an American film and television actress, producer, and professional poker player. Her notable film roles include Gung Ho (1986), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), and Desperate Hours (1990). She garnered the greatest acclaim of her career for her role in the religious drama The Rapture (1991), with critic Robin Wood declaring that she "gave one of the greatest performances in the history of the Hollywood cinema." Rogers has since appeared in Reflections on a Crime (1994), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Lost in Space (1998), Ginger Snaps (2000), The Door in the Floor (2004), and For a Good Time, Call... (2012). Her extensive work in television includes Paper Dolls (1984), Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997), The Loop (2006–2007), and recurring roles on The X-Files (1998–1999), Two and a Half Men (2011–2015), Wilfred (2014), Mad Men (2015), and Bosch (2014–present).

John Michael Higgins is an American actor, voice actor and comedian whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim. He portrayed Peter Lovett in the TV Land original sitcom Happily Divorced and provided the voice of Iknik Blackstone Varrick in The Legend of Korra. He also starred in the NBC sitcom Great News as Chuck Pierce for 2 seasons. He currently hosts the game show America Says. He is nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host.

William James Remar is an American actor and voice artist. He played Richard, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Kim Cattrall's character in Sex and the City, Ajax in The Warriors (1979), maniac Albert Ganz in the thriller 48 Hrs. (1982), gangster Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club (1984), Lord Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), Jack Duff in Miracle on 34th Street (1994) and Harry Morgan in the Showtime series Dexter. Since 2009, he has done voice-over work in ads for Lexus luxury cars. Remar studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.

Recurring cast

Harriet Sansom Harris as Lonnie Goldsmith (3 episodes)
Chris Klein as Drew (2 episodes)
Rodney To as Dr. Bangachon (2 episodes)

Harriet Sansom Harris, often credited as Harriet Harris, is an American actress best known for her portrayals of Bebe Glazer on Frasier and Felicia Tilman on Desperate Housewives. She won a Tony Award in 2002 as a Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Apart from her television and theatre work, she has made various film appearances, including Memento, Addams Family Values, Nurse Betty and Phantom Thread.

Frederick Christopher Klein is an American actor who is best known for playing Chris 'Oz' Ostreicher in the American Pie comedy teen films, and more recently, the serial killer Cicada on The Flash.

Guest stars

Julie Hagerty as Genevieve (2 episodes)
Randee Heller as Margot (2 episodes)
Nestor Carbonell as Arturo Ramos ("Loyalty")

Julie Beth Hagerty is an American actress and former model. She starred as Elaine in the films Airplane! (1980) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). Her other film roles include A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Lost in America (1985), What About Bob? (1991), Freddy Got Fingered (2001), A Master Builder (2014) and Instant Family (2018).

Randy M. "Randee" Heller is an American television and film actress. She is best known for playing Alice in the 1970s sitcom Soap – one of the first recurring lesbian characters in television history – and single mother Lucille LaRusso in The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part III, and Cobra Kai. Heller also had a starring role as Carol in the 1979 made-for-TV movie, Can You Hear the Laughter? The Story of Freddie Prinze. More recently she was seen in a recurring role on the series Mad Men as Bert Cooper and Don Draper's elderly secretary Ida Blankenship and on TV show Wilfred as Ryan's neighbor Margot.

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
40	1	"Amends"	Randall Einhorn	Reed Agnew & Eli Jorné	June 25, 2014 (2014-06-25)	XWL04001	0.242^[2]
With his world in disarray, Ryan has a second chance to make things right. Opening quote: "If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time." – Aldous Huxley
41	2	"Consequences"	Randall Einhorn	David Baldy	June 25, 2014 (2014-06-25)	XWL04002	0.242^[2]
Ryan and Wilfred's camping takes a sudden turn when an unexpected guest joins them. Opening quote: "Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." – Robert Louis Stevenson
42	3	"Loyalty"	Randall Einhorn	Keith Heisler	July 2, 2014 (2014-07-02)	XWL04003	n/a
Kristen's custody battle has Ryan and Wilfred taking sides. Opening quote: "We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." – G. K. Chesterton
43	4	"Answers"	Randall Einhorn	Matt Patterson	July 9, 2014 (2014-07-09)	XWL04004	0.201*^[3]
Wilfred is the subject of a scientific study; the results are disconcerting. Opening quote: "In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order." – Jeffrey Fry
44	5	"Forward"	Randall Einhorn	Reed Agnew & Eli Jorné	July 16, 2014 (2014-07-16)	XWL04005	n/a
After enduring a troubling incident, Ryan and Wilfred have radically different explanations for the event. Opening quote: "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
45	6	"Patterns"	Randall Einhorn	Ted Travelstead	July 23, 2014 (2014-07-23)	XWL04006	n/a
Ryan finds himself ensnared by the "End Game". Opening quote: "Truth is outside of all patterns." – Bruce Lee
46	7	"Responsibility"	Randall Einhorn	Jack Kukoda	July 30, 2014 (2014-07-30)	XWL04007	0.198^[4]
While Ryan helps his mother as she adapts her new life, Wilfred confronts a new enemy. Opening quote: "By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself." – Franz Kafka
47	8	"Courage"	Randall Einhorn	David Baldy	August 6, 2014 (2014-08-06)	XWL04008	0.170^[5]
Wilfred tries to convince Ryan to keep sensitive information from Jenna; Ryan is persuaded. Opening quote: "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them." – Benjamin Franklin
48	9	"Resistance"	Randall Einhorn	David Zuckerman	August 13, 2014 (2014-08-13)	XWL04009	0.239^[6]
Ryan's hope is threatened as he faces seemingly unending challenges. Opening quote: "Resistance is useless." – Doctor Who
49	10	"Happiness"	Randall Einhorn	David Zuckerman	August 13, 2014 (2014-08-13)	XWL04010	0.247^[6]
The truth about Wilfred is finally revealed. Opening quote: "Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them." – Leo Tolstoy

A * indicates that the individual episode ratings were unavailable, so the FXX primetime average is listed instead.

Production

On October 2, 2013, Wilfred was renewed for a ten-episode fourth and final season. The series moved to FX's sister network FXX with first two episodes back-to-back on June 25, 2014 and the final two episodes aired on August 13. David Zuckerman, who served as showrunner for the first two seasons, returned as co-showrunner after stepping down in season 3. The roles of Catherine and Bruce had to be recast after Mary Steenburgen and Dwight Yoakam were unable to reprise their respective roles due to scheduling conflict, and they were replace by Mimi Rodgers and William Balwin.

FX is an American pay television channel owned by the Walt Disney Television unit of The Walt Disney Company through FX Networks, LLC. It is based in Los Angeles, California. Originally launched on June 1, 1994, the network's original programming aspires to the standards of premium cable channels such as HBO, Showtime, and Starz in regard to mature themes and content, high-quality writing, directing and acting, and sister channels such as FXX and FXM. FX also carries reruns of theatrical films and terrestrial-network sitcoms, and advertising-free content is available through the FX+ premium subscription service.

David J. Zuckerman is an American writer and producer and is best known as the original showrunner and executive producer of the animated comedy series Family Guy, as well as the creator of the American adaptation of the Australian television series of the same name, Wilfred.

Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress and singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme's 1980 film Melvin and Howard.

The crew was given warning well ahead of time so the show's creators could tie up loose ends with the final season.^[7] The decision to end the series was ultimately made by FX. Jason Gann was intent on continuing the series stating, "We would have kept going. I think you would have to be crazy to quit a job like this."^[8] The return of show runner David Zuckerman, coupled with the focus on answering some of the show's deeper mythological questions, prevented Gann from writing any episodes in the final season.^[8]

Elijah Wood has stated that "Answers" is one of his favorite episodes of the series saying "I read the season kind of in order and I read like one through three and then I read four and it just totally blew my mind."^[9] His friend has taken the basement set and recreated it at his house. Wood himself has possession of a stuffed bear and a bong made from a Gatorade bottle, both featured prominently throughout the series.^[9]

References

↑ Goldberg, Lesley (October 2, 2013). "'Wilfred' Renewed for Fourth and Final Season on FXX". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
1 2 Patten, Dominic (August 19, 2014). "FXX's 'Wilfred' Series Finale Hits Season High". Deadline. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ "Wednesday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: "Extant," "Big Brother 16" Top Charts". The Futon Critic. July 10, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
↑ Salem, Mitch (August 1, 2014). "UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK THURSDAY SCORECARD – 7/31/14". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on August 4, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
↑ Salem, Mitch (August 7, 2014). "UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK WEDNESDAY SCORECARD – 8/6/14". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
1 2 Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 25 Wednesday Cable Originals: 8/13/14". August 14, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
↑ Marechal, AJ. "FX's 'Wilfred' to End After Fourth Season". Variety.
1 2 Barta, Preston. "Interview: WILFRED's Jason Gann On Hanging Up the Dog Suit". NT Daily.
1 2 Barta, Preston. "Interview: Elijah Wood On the End of 'Wilfred'". NT Daily.

External links

List of Wilfred episodes on IMDb
List of Wilfred episodes at TV.com

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[final_season-1] Goldberg, Lesley (October 2, 2013). "'Wilfred' Renewed for Fourth and Final Season on FXX". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 30, 2014.

[1and2-2] 1 2 Patten, Dominic (August 19, 2014). "FXX's 'Wilfred' Series Finale Hits Season High". Deadline. Retrieved August 20, 2014.

[3] "Wednesday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: "Extant," "Big Brother 16" Top Charts". The Futon Critic. July 10, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2015.

[4] Salem, Mitch (August 1, 2014). "UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK THURSDAY SCORECARD – 7/31/14". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on August 4, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2016.

[5] Salem, Mitch (August 7, 2014). "UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK WEDNESDAY SCORECARD – 8/6/14". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved June 6, 2015.

[series_finale-6] 1 2 Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 25 Wednesday Cable Originals: 8/13/14". August 14, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2016.

[variety.com-7] Marechal, AJ. "FX's 'Wilfred' to End After Fourth Season". Variety.

[ntdaily.com-8] 1 2 Barta, Preston. "Interview: WILFRED's Jason Gann On Hanging Up the Dog Suit". NT Daily.

[ReferenceA-9] 1 2 Barta, Preston. "Interview: Elijah Wood On the End of 'Wilfred'". NT Daily.

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