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Today's quote comes from Mahatma Gandhi: "Fear has its use but cowardice has none. To Read the Full Story. Subscribe Sign In. You can imagine the pitch. You've got Elijah Wood as Ryan, the strait-laced one, stressed out and perpetually frustrated, he hates his life. And then you've got Wilfred: the foul-mouthed, pot-smoking, super-confident, self-centred messy one. From the moment I first heard the concept — the Australian original had completely passed me by — I couldn't wait to watch to watch Wilfred, which comes to a close on BBC3 tonight.

And I haven't been disappointed. Quirky, daring and relentlessly dark, the opening minutes set the tone for the series as Ryan put the finishing touches to the umpteenth draft of his suicide note and took an overdose, only surviving thanks to the remarkable lack of faith shown by his sister Kristen a "domineering woman on the edge of a breakdown" who hadn't trusted him with real anti-depressants.

Mere hours later Ryan meets Wilfred and attractive owner Jenna , and agrees to dog-sit a creature he's confident is not a dog. By the end of the episode the pair are stoned, Ryan is jobless and Wilfred is displaying his skills as a machiavellian puppet master. It was a very strong start to the series. And yet for the first few weeks there remained a small element of doubt: might the novelty wear off? Oddly it doesn't: at first because it's a guy in a dog costume; later because of some brilliant scripting.

In episode three, Ryan gives Wilfred a bone as a treat — "A bone? That's like giving a basketball to a black guy. Many of the funniest moments in the show come courtesy of Wilfred. His panic that something terrible has happened to Jenna because today, like every day, she's gone out; his very graphic sexual relationship with a giant stuffed bear, threatened when he's tempted by a stuffed giraffe; excellent dog-specific gags about confronting things like flies, postmen and vacuum cleaners.

But these jokes never dominate, instead serving only as sketchy interludes to the meat of the show, which is, essentially, about Ryan's struggle to regain his life and happiness. With Wilfred's help Ryan manages to wriggle free of his sister's control, blissfully unaware that he's instead being manipulated by his conniving new best friend — to break, enter, steal and even shit in his neighbour's boots.

Elsewhere the pair try desperately to replace Jenna's long-term boyfriend Drew played with cheesy gusto by Chris Klein.