Once Upon A Time’s post-hiatus premiere was a mixture of the very good and the very bad.
Here’s our review…
Let me be clear: I have missedOnce Upon a Timeduring its hiatus.
I hungered for the show in its absence.
It didnt take me long to realize my error.
Ohhhh, I said, as Ursulas CGI tentacles twitched about hither and yon, It IS Once!
It wasnt even the tentacles that convinced me of my earlier error.
This post-hiatus premiere was a mixture of the very good and the very bad.
It would be like visiting the LL Bean store and getting terribly lost.
Now is the part where I get to write a sentence that will shame my family.
Dude, that ripply hell-demon with wings who emerged from the sorcerers hat along with the returned fairies?
He was kind of hot.
I was into it.
The hell-beasts arrival is key to allowing Ursula, Maleficent, Cruella, and Gold back into Storybrooke.
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Great, great, great, fine, fine, fine.
The arc for the second half of the season has been set.
But why bring all of these women back at once?
As usual, it feels like the show is trying to do way too much.
Leave the other two until we need them.
As it stands now there is simply too much white noise.
Golds return should be a revelation, but instead hes hidden behind these glowering evil-doers.
What does he want?
Where does this leave him with family in Storybrooke?
What does happily ever after mean for a villain?
Rating:
2 out of 5
