Wonderland is more than a finely crafted TV medical drama. It's an exercise in intensity, as riveting as it is exhausting - and risky. [29 March 2000]

The show is so gripping and often so dazzling in its visual command...Wonderland asks viewers to be discomfited week after week and trust that the effort will be rewarded. Even the toughest series tend to get soft over time, but for now the uncompromising Wonderland is worth every demand it makes.

Included in the opening hour: a scene so harrowing and unexpected, you won't soon forget it. [30 March 2000]

It’s not an easy show to watch (camera work aside, but I’ll get to that later). There aren’t a lot of laughs, and it’s riveting as hell...The acting is so good it knocks out most other shows you’ll see.

Wonderland is intense and harrowing--sometimes a little too harrowing.

Falling into an erratic pattern, the annoyingly choppy "Wonderland" follows an incredibly powerful moment with one that's incredibly forced. Intriguing confrontations lead to unrealistic plot twists or hackneyed resolutions. Artfully constructed dilemmas are undermined by cliches...For every step in a brilliant direction, Wonderland takes a stumble. A dark drama filled with dreary and haunting images, the ABC newcomer has ambition to spare. What it lacks is consistency. [30 March 2000, p.1E]

Although the heart of this drama - the tenuous nature of mental health, as embodied in the character of Dr. Banger - is a universal issue, it might not be something most want to examine on a weekly basis. [30 March 2000]