E! Online is the latest--and one of the bigger names now--to chime in with praise for ABC's upcoming "Once Upon a Time."
From Fall Shows We Love: Once Upon a Time Is Magic. Period. by Christina Dowling and Kristin Dos Santos:
Snow White, Prince Charming, the Evil Queen, blah blah blah. It all sounds like your typical Disney story, and a wholly unoriginal concept, but surprise! ABC's new fairy-tales-with-a-twist series Once Upon a Time is hands down the most mind-blowingly unique new show coming out this fall, perhaps because it's penned by two of the dudes responsible for Lost. (Unless you were one of the people who hated Lost's ending. Then forget we ever said it.)
But is Once Upon a Time really worth your precious time?
Find out as our 2011 Fall TV Preview launches today with the new drama we're (spoiler alert!) most excited about...
Once Upon a Time (ABC)
Premieres: Sunday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m.
Time-Slot Competition: The Amazing Race (CBS), The Simpsons (Fox), Sunday Night Football (NBC)
Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Carlyle, Lana Parrilla, Jamie Dornan, Jared Gilmore, Josh Dallas, Raphael Sbarge
Status: We've seen the pilot episode.
While many of ABC's new comedies are are, um, lackluster at best (stand by for the cringe-worthy deets on that when we release all our 2011 Fall TV reviews), the Alphabet net has certainly taken a chance with Once Upon a Time. With cross dimensions that could only be pulled off by former Lost writers, this enchanting show shifts between Fairy Tale Land and the dreary (plus magically cursed) town of Storybrooke and tackles what happens beyond the "happily ever after" of the stories we love. Viewers will discover what happens when the happy ending goes to hell in a hand basket.
There's much more on the article page but overall an exuberantly positive review of the pilot. The site also has this short video that was embeddable, so here it is:
I really really really hope they will show this in the UK too.
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