Spoilers Ahead People of all ages, this two-part season finale should serve as an example of how perfection should be brought to life on screen. Continuing from where we left off last week, Rumple enacts Zelena’s curse and sends Killian and Emma back to the Enchanted forest moments before Snow and Charming are about to meet for the first time. They alter the instant Snow is supposed to steal the
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Once Upon A Time 3×20 “Kansas” Recap
Spoilers Ahead And here we go again with yet another curse. Yay? Oz Flashbacks: Zelena meets Glinda the good witch who offers her a place in a sisterhood stating that they’ve been waiting for her arrival for a long time. Glinda introduces Zelena to two other witches who are waiting for the fourth one –Zelena– to join. The witch of the North represents wisdom, Glinda from the South represents love,
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×19 “A Curious Thing” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Once Upon A Time has been at its best this season with plot twists. Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: Charming and Snow are about to announce their pregnancy to the kingdom, but moments before turning into flying monkeys, Aurora and Phillip reveal the witch’s plan to take their baby. Belle runs in to tell everyone that Rumple and Neal have morphed together, and the Charmings later visit him to find out
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×18 “Bleeding Through” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Flashbacks: Young Cora (Rose McGowan) is working as a barmaid when she’s proposed to by Prince Jonathan who’s actually a gardener. And after he promises to return for her in two weeks, he reveals his true identity and refuses to help support the child. Broken and alone she then meets Snow’s father, Prince Leopold who offers her a hand in marriage, but when Princess Eva finds out that
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×17 “The Jolly Roger” Recap
Spoilers Ahead There’s nothing quite as enjoyable as our favorite charismatic swashbuckler and darling little mermaid teaming up to find lost love, even if things weren’t as they seem, the chemistry between Colin O’Donoghue and JoAnna Garcia-Swisher was outstanding. An episode gorgeously framed around the idea of love grounding the heart at home, they both authenticated the notion that it’s physically, spiritually, and emotionally impossible to be happy when separated
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×16 “It’s Not Easy Being Green” Recap
Spoilers Ahead Count on Once Upon A Time to not only give us a beautiful emotionally driven episode but take us back to the Wild West with a good old duel to determine who should’ve been chosen to be Rumplestilskin’s most beloved trainee. Flashbacks: A childless family on their way to The Emerald City find abandoned, infant Zelena and decides to keep her. At that moment she’d already been displaying
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×15 “Quiet Minds” Recap
Spoilers Ahead If there’s one thing Once Upon A Time writers are able to do masterfully is provide viewers with a beautiful sense of closure as a beloved character’s life comes to end. Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: When Neal and Belle meet Lumiere (Henry Lubatti ) he points them in the direction of a key that leads to the Dark One’s vault. As it turns out, he’s working with the Wicked
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×14 “The Tower” Recap
Spoilers Ahead The episode opens up in the most beautifully enchanting way as Charming dreams of teaching Emma how to dance for her first ball. While dancing, the two shared a conversation both undoubtedly always wanted, and though it was Charming’s dream, as an audience we know it’s something Emma would’ve perpetually treasured as well. Their gorgeous scene is cut short when Emma’s taken by the wardrobe once again, thus
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×13 “Witch Hunt” Recap
Spoilers Ahead The best part of this week’s episode was the marvelous interactions and how quickly every revelation occurred – things are about to escalate and brilliantly. Not sure how anyone else feels, but we’re pretty fond of this whole Oz arc so far. When was the last time a witch actually flew on a broomstick? It’s always incredible to have classics being brought back into our television screens. Back
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×12 “New York City Serenade” Recap
Spoilers Ahead If there’s one episode that’s been worth the awfully long three-month hiatus, New York City Serenade is definitely it. When we parted ways with our most favorite characters, everyone but Emma and Henry were sent back to the Enchanted Forest, and it was up to Captain Hook to jog Emma’s memories one year later. There were quite a few noteworthy, tear-jerker scenes in this episode that certainly set
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
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
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
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
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
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
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×05 “Good Form” Recap
Spoilers ahead: This episode opens up with the lost boys capturing Neal and ends with him being hung with someone else captured. Who do you guys think it’ll be? It doesn’t seem like it’ll be Rumple because who can capture him? Do you think it’s a character we haven’t met yet, a little mermaid perhaps? In flashbacks, we meet young Lieutenant Killian Jones, and his brother Captain Liam Jones as
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×04 “Nasty Habits” Recap
Spoilers Ahead We have the “Operation Henry” group discussing their plan with Tinkerbell – a plan which they clearly hadn’t thought threw because there was no exit plan. This leads them to Bae’s “home” in Neverland where they find a map he created, a map only he can read. Meanwhile, father and son reunite in a truly heartbreaking scene as Neal cannot believe Rumple’s intentions are honorable. They sure seemed
Read moreOnce Upon A Time 3×02 “Lost Girl” Recap
Spoilers Ahead For starters, we’d like to congratulate everyone in this fandom: you’ve survived yet another bloody brilliant episode. Give yourselves a pat on the back. As always, Once Upon A Time has arose countless questions and brought on screen magnificence: What do you all think of Rumplestiltskin ripping out his own shadow? Does this mean that a person could willingly do so and not die as opposed to Pan or the lost
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