Brought to us via the minds of Lost creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis on ABC Sundays, they combine the fairy tale world of old with the modern world and the people in it.
Season One focused on the character Emma Swan, brought to the sleepy town of Storybrooke by her forgotten son Henry who tells her that all the people living in the town are from a Fairy Tale land of old and they are stuck in a curse where they have forgotten their Fairy Tale lives thanks to Queen Regina, Snow White’s evil stepmother and Rumpelstiltskin, a powerful imp who deals in magic.
Spoiler Alert: As Emma encounters characters like The Mad Hatter, The Magic Mirror, the Seven Dwarfs, Victor Frankenstein, and many others, she manages to break the curse, but the characters become trapped in Storybrook. Emma and Snow accidentally slip into Fairy Tale land to encounter heroes like Mulan and Aurora and villains like Captain Hook and Cora (Regina’s more evil mother).
I like this series! I was hesitant at first, but at the persistent requests from my girlfriend, I gave the series a try from the beginning and was hooked by episode three. I highly recommend this series for old school Disney movie lovers and also fans of fantasy and action in general. While the special effects are not the grandest, the costumes, sets, and overall storytelling keeps the pace going and the series on a much entertaining thrill ride into the imagination.