Oh Once Upon A Time I get the need to expand the backstory of minor characters. When your cast is this big and interesting and you’re hoping to play a long game where your show goes on for many, many seasons you need all the fleshed out and fascinating characters you can get. Only, maybe [...]

Oh you unmitigated bastards. I should have seen it coming. Belle finally gets developed as more than the slightly addle brained love interest of Rumple and you have to go and mind wipe her (permanently) and basically kill her off. So yes, you’re unmitigated bastards. On the bright side–if there is one–Belle was revealed to [...]

The showrunners like to sum up Regina’s story arc as a tale of redemption. She, and really every villain has operated in shades of gray and black–the difference being that she desperately, desperately wants to be a white hat. She wants to be one of the good guys invited to a pot luck at the [...]

Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Cora Mills isn’t her literal heartlessness or her penchant for taking others. It’s her psychotic take on her relationship with her daughter. Here’s a woman who genuinely loves her daughter. There’s no question of it. She doesn’t resent Regina. She doesn’t hate Regina. She loves her–adores her even. She [...]

Jamie Chung’s Mulan is not the earnest heroine of folklore or the clever “princess” crafted by Disney. She’s violent and pragmatic to a flippin’ fault preferring to trust that which she can control than put her hopes in dreams on magic and faith. She’s a pessimistic realist stuck on a show full of optimists…and Emma [...]

Man, was there ever a bigger let down then this episode of Once Upon A Time? You have Annabeth Gish playing a werewolf and you have the expansion of the Belle/Red friendship and Charming has something to do besides brow beat the resident villains (though he still finds time for that). This should be awesome! [...]

Something that has always been great about Once Upon A Time is that in spite of it being about a bunch of mainly white straight people finding love it manages to regularly meet the criteria of the Bechdel Test. This a show chock full of fascinating ladies who interact with each other more often than [...]

There’s been a change of scenery as far as reviews for Once Upon A Time. Josephine had to take a step back but will be visiting us regularly with most excellent articles. So fear not. It just means you’re stuck with me now. And because I’m catching up and you’re catching up that means an [...]

We’re in flashback territory. This meant that we didn’t see any of our lady triumvirate this week (Snow/Emma/Regina), but got to do some male bonding! Instead of showing what’s happening with the Femme A-Team in Fairy Tale (Mulan, Aurora, Snow, Emma vs. big baddie Cora) we got Rumpely with Stiltskin. The mystery of when and [...]

Much like a chicken with his head recently removed, Charming is still running around trying to figure out how to get Emma and Snow back from what is left of Fairy Tale. Luckily, he has the assistance of his grandson, Henry. The little guy has no qualms with manipulating his adoptive mom’s new-found desire to [...]