This was a show that epitomized the offbeat image Nickolodeon wanted to portray BEFORE it repurposed itself into a hybrid of Disney Channel and Cartoon Network. This was a show that took chances and succeeded in portraying childhood and adolescence in a satisfyingly surreal way most of us remembered it. Who in here was convinced at some time that a metal plate could pick up radio signals? Who in here ever wondered what type of life the ice cream man led? Who in here had a childhood hero that you later realized is just hyped up? These and other childhood mystifications are probed and reified into the world of Wellsville that's caught between the surreal and the outrageously real.
***** out of *****
***** out of *****