Series Review: “Once Upon a Time”

On October 23, 2011, ABC launched the first episode of Once Upon A Time. Once Upon A Time features your favorite storybook characters in a fictional town called Storybrooke. The Evil Queen from “Snow White”, played by Lana Parrilla, casted a powerful curse, causing all the characters to be stuck in Storybrooke, and all memories of their past life are gone. All hope is lost for 28 years until 11-year-old Henry Mills (Jared S. Gilmore) brings his mom Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), who has long been foretold to be “The Savior”, back to Storybrooke to break the curse.

The show gives extensive background into the stories that you grew up with. For example, the Evil Queen wanted to kill Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) because Snow spilled one of the queen’s secrets that led to the death of her one true love. Mulan (Jamie Chung) was actually in love with Princess Aurora (Sarah Bolger) from “Sleeping Beauty”. Beast from “Beauty and the Beast” is actually Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle), who is actually an immortal, all-powerful sorcerer.

Since 2011, writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have grown and twisted the plot by adding new characters like Peter Pan (Robbie Kay), Anna (Elizabeth Lail) and Elsa (Georgina Haig) from “Frozen”, and even Cruella De Vil (Victoria Smurfit) from “101 Dalmations”.

So if you want to see the fairy tales that you know and love in a different light, tune in to ABC at 8:00 p.m. on Sundays. Once Upon A Time is one of my favorite shows, and if you give it a chance, I know it’ll be one of your favorite shows too.

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