

(There’s an Abu Ghraib joke in the first five minutes.) The tone is stiff and awkward.

From top to bottom, lasso to cuffs, it’s a mess. The reason Kelley’s pilot wasn’t picked up by NBC isn’t a great unsolved mystery. Her nemesis is Veronica Cale (Elizabeth Hurley), a pharmaceutical CEO who’s up to no good. It never went anywhere, and even Kelley admitted it “made mistakes.” He imagined Wonder Woman not as fun but frustrated: As a vigilante she’s irritated by the confines of the criminal justice system, as a normal woman she’s lonely. After Lynda Carter and before Gal Gadot, the Friday Night Lights star slipped into Wonder Woman’s red bustier and blue hot pants to fight crime in Los Angeles, for an NBC pilot written by Ally McBeal creator David E. Adrianne Palicki is the Wonder Woman we don’t talk about.
