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Emerald City Review 01x01 contains spoilers

Emerald City 01x01 review
Airdate: 01/6/17
Rating: *****(5 stars)
Video to the promo for the show:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-Sr8WQZ4c

I am going to start off this review by saying that this is not the Wizard of Oz that you know and love, it has the same characters names some of them anyway but the story a little different. I would say it is a combination of if the TV shows Game of Thrones, Once Upon A Time, and The 100 all had a baby it would be Emerald City. The show started off with Dorothy who was in her twenties, and she was a nurse who was going to help someone in the trailer park and when the tornado happened she was in a police car. When she got out of the car after driving into a house she has no idea where she is, and she and Toto who is a German Shepard in this version, happen upon Oz near Munchkin land as a matter of fact, in this version it is a more of a tribe of people than munchkins, and the leader takes Dorothy to prison. Dorothy saves a man the scarecrow that she names Lucas as he does not know his name, but Lucas is where she is from. On the way to the Emerald City they happened upon the Wicked Witch of The East, and Dorothy takes her how to use the gun that she found in Dorothy’s bag to kill herself. Her sisters the witches of the north and the west bury her, and the witch of the west is not well but she ends up surviving. There is a healer that Dorothy takes Lucas to as he is about ready to die, and she saves him with the help of the healer, the healer has a son that he keeps locks in a room that at the end of the episode thanks to Dorothy, Lucas, and his friend Jack.

There were many good quotes, and so I would watch the episode if you can it was tour hours long with commercials. “Something has happened in the east.”- Ozian “Toto is a dog in our language”- Tribal leader”Follow the brick road to the Emerald City, the Wizard is there.”-Tribal Leader. “I’m a helper I’m a healer.”-Dorothy

I loved this show and I loved the vibe that they were trying to give it, I thought it was clear where they were coming from with the choices that they made. This is the story that you know, with an updated twist and that is one of the many things that I loved about it. I loved the dark tones, and the most adult tone of the show, it made me feel like it was the story that you know but with an elevated tone to the voice. I loved the characters, and I loved that they added something that were new and different to the characters that you know and love, and that it had the kind of a thing that was different with the adding of the original characters that they created. I would highly recommend for anyone who loves the world of The Wizard of Oz. 

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