Wilfred (American TV series) season 1

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Wilfred
Season 1
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No. of episodes13
Release
Original network FX
Original releaseJune 23 (2011-06-23) –
September 8, 2011 (2011-09-08)
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The first season of Wilfred , premiered on FX on June 23, 2011. The season contains 13 episodes and concluded airing on September 8, 2011. The series is based on the original Australian series, Wilfred, and stars Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Fiona Gubelmann and Dorian Brown.

Contents

Synopsis

The season began with Ryan, an ex-lawyer, trying to commit suicide by overdosing on pills. His sister, Kristen, knowing that giving out pills to family members is unethical, decides to give him sugar pills without him knowing. At first, he does not know and thinks that Wilfred is just a hallucination, then after a visit from his sister, he finds out about the sugar pills, therefore it is unknown exactly why only Ryan sees Wilfred the way he is. Throughout the first season Wilfred puts Ryan in difficult situations including tricking Ryan into breaking into the neighbor's house while Wilfred steals the man's marijuana plants and defecates in his boots. Ryan confesses everything to his neighbor and is assaulted. Wilfred uses Ryan's growing crush on Jenna to convince Ryan to sabotage Jenna's relationship with her long-distance boyfriend Drew.

Ryan saves Wilfred after he learns that the doggy daycare manager, who he starts leaving him with, is molesting Wilfred, and Wilfred saves a stuffed teddy bear. Wilfred begins having sex with this stuffed animal, with whom he communicates in the same way Ryan communicates with Wilfred. Wilfred also pressures Ryan into pursuing a sexual relationship with a tightly-wound single mother, mainly because Wilfred is infatuated with her son's stuffed giraffe. Ryan also simulates sex with the giraffe on Wilfred pleading until the son sees him. Wilfred also helps Ryan understand that he was not responsible for the death of his childhood dog, Sneakers. The audience learns that Ryan's mentally unstable mother can see her cat, Mittens, in a similar fashion that Ryan sees Wilfred. Ryan discovers a man, Bruce, who claims to be able to see Wilfred the same way that Ryan sees Wilfred, and tries to convince Ryan to not trust Wilfred. After a struggle, Ryan learns that Bruce and Wilfred were playing a game to test Ryan's trust with Wilfred.

At the end of the season, Jenna accidentally ingests a marijuana-laced candy from Ryan’s house before her first time as an anchorperson and gets fired from her job, after which Ryan decides to represent her in a legal battle to get her job back. Although Ryan is used to digging up dirt on his opponents in order to win, he decides not to this time. However, Wilfred does instead and Ryan uses this evidence to get Jenna her job back.

Ryan uses his newfound "power" to break up Drew and Jenna, and gets a date with Jenna. When he finds out that she needs to take a drug test he blackmails his sister (with knowledge of a previous affair) into giving him her urine so Jenna will pass the test. This causes a wedge between Ryan and Kristen and she leaves for India. However, Kristen is pregnant, which shows up in Jenna's urine test. Jenna now believes she is pregnant so she gets back together with Drew. Wilfred gets into a car accident and gets amnesia and does not remember Ryan. The season ends with Ryan running back to his house remembering a will Wilfred was writing before the accident so Ryan would know what to do if anything happened to him. Ryan tries to open the door to his basement only to discover it is in fact a closet. A tennis ball (linking back to the first episode in the season) rolls out of the closet, leaving Ryan puzzled.

Cast

Main cast

Special guest cast

Recurring cast

Guest stars

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		US viewers
(millions)
11"Happiness" Randall Einhorn David Zuckerman June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)XWL010012.55 [1]
22"Trust"Randall EinhornDavid ZuckermanJune 30, 2011 (2011-06-30)XWL010022.04 [2]
33"Fear"Randall Einhorn Eric Weinberg July 7, 2011 (2011-07-07)XWL010041.52 [3]
44"Acceptance"Randall Einhorn Jason Gann July 14, 2011 (2011-07-14)XWL010031.56 [4]
55"Respect"Randall EinhornMichael GloubermanJuly 21, 2011 (2011-07-21)XWL010051.44 [5]
66"Conscience"Randall EinhornDavid BaldyJuly 28, 2011 (2011-07-28)XWL010061.74 [6]
77"Pride"Randall EinhornJason GannAugust 4, 2011 (2011-08-04)XWL010071.40 [7]
88"Anger" Victor Nelli, Jr. Sivert Glarum & Michael Jamin August 11, 2011 (2011-08-11)XWL010081.23 [8]
99"Compassion"Victor Nelli, Jr. Patricia Breen August 18, 2011 (2011-08-18)XWL010091.18 [9]
1010"Isolation"Victor Nelli, Jr.Steve Baldikoski & Bryan BeharAugust 18, 2011 (2011-08-18)XWL010101.04 [9]
1111"Doubt"Randall EinhornReed Agnew & Eli JornéAugust 25, 2011 (2011-08-25)XWL010111.21 [10]
1212"Sacrifice"Randall EinhornSivert Glarum & Michael Jamin September 1, 2011 (2011-09-01)XWL010121.32 [11]
1313"Identity"Randall EinhornDavid ZuckermanSeptember 8, 2011 (2011-09-08)XWL010130.90 [12]

Production

Wilfred is based on the critically acclaimed Australian series of the same name and was adapted for FX by Family Guy veteran David Zuckerman. [13] Wilfred is produced by FX Productions while the executive producers include: Zuckerman; [14] [15] [16] Rich and Paul Frank; Jeff Kwatinetz; and Joe and Ken Connor from the original Australian series. Wilfred co-creator Jason Gann and Randall Einhorn serve as co-executive producers. Einhorn directed 10 episodes of the first season and Victor Nelli, Jr. directed three. [14] The pilot episode was filmed in summer 2010, [15] [16] written by Zuckerman, and directed by Einhorn. [16] The show was shot primarily with the inexpensive Canon EOS 7D dSLR camera. The first episode of the show was included in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Complete Season 6 DVD.

Notes

  1. ↑ Gubelmann is only credited for the episodes she appears in.
  2. ↑ Brown is only credited for the episodes she appears in.

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References

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