Oh, we’re off to see the … Hades?! Episode Summary: In flashbacks, we learned that when Regina chose to test Killian, she had him confront his father after he’d abandoned him and Liam. In Storybrooke, we learned that in order for a soul from the underworld to be brought back, someone living must die. And a hero’s sacrifice saves the day, but because our town savior isn’t okay with losing her love, she’s on a journey to the underworld in order to split her heart. Neverland 2.0 here we come. Review | Analysis: There’s a reason we don’t often theorize
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Once Upon A Time 5×05 “Dreamcatcher” Recap
Spoilers Ahead You can’t just end an episode there! Episode Summary: In Camelot, Emma resorts to the drastic decision of taking Violet’s heart in order to use Henry’s heartbreak as a way to free Merlin. Killian, Robin, Belle, and Regina break into the Dark Swan’s house and find Excalibur there. In Storybrooke Emma also makes amends with Henry and Violet, but it’s too late when Henry’s learned the truth by listening in on Regina and Robin as they watch a flashback through a dream catcher. Review | Analysis: Tonight’s episode wasn’t exactly our favorite, but then again, who wants to watch
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 5×03 “Siege Perilous” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Bromances, darkness, and more mysteries. Episode Summary: In Camelot, Charming and Arthur bond while in Storybrooke Robin and Hook plot a mission of their own. Dark Swan tries to find the hero that’ll pull Excalibur from the stone, but things go south when Hook refuses to give in to the darkness. Gold awakens and Arthur is the worst. Review | Analysis: Tonight’s episode was yet another reminder that we stand where we do because of the choices we make. While evil forces have power, at the end of the day so does light, and when we find ourselves
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 5×02 “The Price” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Trees. There will apparently be lots of them this season. Episode Summary: In Camelot, our heroes go to a ball where one of their lives is in severe danger due to Regina’s lie of being the savior. Although Emma succeeds in saving Robin, darkness creeps up on her. In Storybrooke, Emma tries to get Regina to take responsibility for her actions, and in the end, we learn that with the help of everyone, she could defeat the fury. Review | Analysis: Tonight’s episode has left us with a lot of mixed feelings. There were some beautifully magical moments
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 5×01 “The Dark Swan” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Here we go again with glitches in our memories, new places, and the fight to make sure good always wins. In other words: the recipe which makes Once Upon A Time, well, Once Upon A Time. Due to the fact that the episode wasn’t shown in its usual flashback/present-day form, we’ll just dive straight into covering matters we feel are most important. First things first, we’d be lying if we said we were excited for Emma Swan to turn dark, in fact, what we’re most excited about is Jennifer Morrison’s inimitable performances. We like savior/sheriff Emma a lot
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×21-22 “Operation Mongoose” Recap
Spoilers Ahead And just like that Once Upon A Time reminds us of the fact that Emma Swan is one of the greatest fictional characters in history — “Operation Mongoose” Parts I and II were a solid two hours of fantastic television. Between the gorgeous costumes, exceptional performances, and nerve-wracking storylines, it’s been an epic ride leading us into a torturous three-month-long hiatus. Episode Summary: Isaac rewrites everyone’s stories into a best-selling novel called Heroes and Villains. However, the stories in the book will only ever become a permanent reality if things aren’t made right before the loud tolling of bells
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×19 “Lily” Recap
Spoilers Ahead We’re going to make the assumption that collectively most Once Upon A Time fans uttered something along the lines of “OMG” at the end of this episode. Minnesota Flashbacks (1999): Abby Ross returns as young Emma in 1999 where it appears she’s finally found a foster home she really feels she’s a part of. As the family is planning their camping trip, Emma comes to find that her old best friend Lily is sleeping in the garage because she’s found herself in trouble again. Lily has dinner with Emma and her family and then asks Emma to help her
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×17 “Heart of Gold” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Moment of appreciation for the fact that no series does plot twists the way Once Upon A Time does. (Sometimes that’s a good thing, other times…well.) Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: We see Robin’s first acquaintance with Zelena as he attempts to steal a potion from her for Rumplestilskin. And during his journey to her castle in OZ, he meets Will who tells him about his broken heart from grief. The flashback concludes with a beautiful scene of Marian assuring Robin that she’s in it for the long haul with him. Present-Day Storybrooke and New York: While Robin, “Marian”, and Roland are
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×16 “Best Laid Plans” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Even the seemingly best-laid plans can end terribly. Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: Snow and Charming have different visions of how Emma will grow up, so they turn to the sorcerer to ask for help. The sorcerer states that there’s no way of knowing because choices play a part in the outcome; however, there is a way to take the darkness if it’s placed in someone else with a similar faith (ie: a child who’s to be born at the same time). After they’re told that Maleficent’s having a child as well, believing that it’ll be a dragon just like her,
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×14 “Enter the Dragon” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Citizens of Storybrooke who really trust each other should come up with some kind of a secret code to verify they are who they say they are. Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: Regina seeks Maleficent in order to get her revenge started, but what she comes to find is that the darkest of them all has given up. However, when King Stefan (Sebastian Roche) traps the two of them after he catches them trying to bring Maleficent’s dragon back, Regina’s magic and encouragement play a role in the revival. The two of them later find Aurora, and Maleficent feels that
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×13 “Unforgiven” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Secrets are never fun, but sometimes, they make for a great TV episode. Enchanted ForestFlashbacks: When Maleficent, Cruella, and Ursula approach the Charmings in order to make a deal, things backfire when they learn the tree which only responds to “the most valiant heroes” refuse them. The Queens of Darkness then state that because their love is the purest to exist, their child could either grow up to be really great or the ultimate villain. However, Maleficent later visits Snow to tell her that she too is pregnant, and the two of them could work together in order
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×09 “The Fall” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Tonight’s episode felt like a fantastic mix between the Pilot, “And Straight on to Morning”, “Good Form” and “Going Home” — each of them being episodes we’ve adored. Arendelle Flashbacks: When we left off with the Snow Queen, what she had done with Arendelle wasn’t apparent, thus as it turns out, she froze the entire kingdom until this very moment when they were finally brought back to life. With Hans ruling now that Elsa’s trapped in the urn, Anna and Kristoff set off to find Blackbeard in order to ask for the wishing star. Also, since we were
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×05 “Breaking Glass” Recap
Spoilers Ahead If this episode has taught us anything it’s that those who learn from their mistakes receive the kind of happiness they’re deserving of. Flashbacks (1998): While attempting to steal pop tarts after she ran away from her foster home, lost girl Emma befriends someone she feels she has a lot in common with. Lily defends Emma when the grocery store worker accuses her of stealing by saying that they’re doing a little shopping for their parents. They later run away from Lily’s father into a summer vacation home where they bond over video games, food, and hand-drawn tattoos. When
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 4×03 “Rocky Road” Recap
Spoilers Ahead While last week’s episode was an excellent reminder that we should strive to live and not just survive, this week’s reminded us that it’s okay to stumble and fall. Arendelle Flashbacks: Hans (Tyler Jacob Moore) of the Southern Isles comes up with a plan to trap Elsa in an urn in order to rule Arendelle as King, but what he doesn’t know is that someone’s already in the urn — The Snow Queen (Elizabeth Mitchell). Kristoff and Elsa decide to take matters into their own hands where they decide they’ll go to Hans themselves in order to stop him
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×11 “Going Home” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Once Upon A Time has rightfully set the bar insanely high for any fairytale adaptations. Surely we aren’t the only ones this mid-season finale caused copious amounts of pain too. Additionally, there were far too many exceptional scenes in this episode to pick favorites and leave things out, that being said, this is long, and a bit different from our usual recaps considering the fact that there was more than one flashback.
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×10 “The New Neverland” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Once upon a time being told that there’d be a new Neverland would sound magically beautiful to everyone, but now it’s frightening and unwanted. Flashback: This week’s flashback takes place moments after Regina threatens the Charmings on their wedding day. During their honeymoon, Snow convinces Charming to search for Medusa in order to cut off her head, and use it to turn Regina into stone. Their plan backfires because Charming looks Medusa in the eyes, and becomes a statue himself until a message from Regina influences Snow’s new plan where she shows Medusa her own reflection, and frees
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×09 “Save Henry” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Just when you think the family tree cannot get any more complicated, it does. Flashback: As the curse is about to strike, Regina visits Rumpelstiltskin one last time and he reveals that the happiness she seeks to attain with the curse will eventually leave a void in her heart. As we learned back in Season 2, Regina not only felt lonely, but she got tired of not living the same day over and over again. Back in Storybrooke after Greg Mendell disappears, she requests Mr. Gold’s assistance in finding a child to adopt, and he suggests an adoption agency
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×08 “Think Lovely Thoughts” Recap
Spoilers ahead: We’re genuinely unsure whether or not we could ever look at Peter Pan the same way again, who’s with us? Flashbacks: Viewers are at last given Rumple’s family backstory and it’s definitely worse than Cora’s/Regina’s. After Rumple’s father leaves him with two ladies and claims he’s gone off to get a job, they give him a magic bean in order for him to escape from the father who cares very little about him. Rumple finds him back at the pub gambling again and shows him the bean persuading him to run off with him to a place where
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×07 “Dark Hollow” Recap
Spoilers ahead: “Couldn’t it be called Sunshine Valley or Rainbow Cove?” We’re right there with you, Emma. Neverland isn’t exactly as colorful as Disney made us believe. How nice was it to finally see what the other beloved characters were up to back in Storybrooke? Belle and Ariel save the day. John and Michael Darling have hope instilled in them. Wendy Darling is unfortunately still Pan’s prisoner. And Henry’s on Pan’s side again. Through Rumple’s cryptic instructions, Ariel’s optimism, and the unbreakable power of True Love, Belle finds what’s needed to defeat Pan in order to bring everyone back home safely.
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×06 “Ariel” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Flashbacks: The episode opens up with bandit Snow running from the Evil Queen, you know usual stuff, but she’s rescued by a brave little mermaid we all know and love as Ariel (JoAnna Garcia). According to Ariel, legend says that during the highest tide, sea goddess Ursula grants mermen and mermaids the ability to walk on land. Snow White and Ariel go to Prince Eric’s ball where Eric reveals that he’s seen her (Ariel) as his true love. He presents her with an offer to travel the world with him, and knowing she only has a few hours until
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