It worked even with th eextra setting, I think, if one is delsuional enough. :) I thouht she did look very sad, but I connected it with grief, not fear.

American Gods is one of my favorites and it isn't exactly sunny. The prmise is that every god that has ever been worshipped in America, stays there for ever, even with their powers diminished. It starts with the main character getting out of prison and looking forward to see his wife. Only she dies in a car accident before he gets home. And then he is offered a job by the mysterious Mr. Thursday who tells him the gods are going to war and they start to travel across USA meeting various gods and other entitites, some who are not very nice at all. For example there is a town where a child disappears every winter since forever.

So I think Brian Fuller can do something good. (I'ce actually never seen Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies).