TVLine: Winter TV Spoiler-palooza!

TVLine: Winter TV Spoiler-palooza!

PREVIOUSLY ON… | After Rumplestiltskin gave his life to vanquish Peter Pan/his father Malcolm, Regina managed to stop Pan’s curse, but it came with a price: Everyone not from this realm was sent back to from whence they came, leaving Emma (immune to the curse, as Savior) and Henry to have a life together in New York City, albeit sapped of their Storybrooke/adoption memories. But one year later, an anxious Captain Hook came knocking….

COMING UP NEXT | Spoilers are scarce at this time, given the extra-long hiatus. But as indicated by the fall finale — which split the narrative between two realms and skipped over a year — what lies ahead is “a compelling new mode of storytelling… an exciting new variation on things we’ve done before,” series cocreator Adam Horowitz told us. And to keep things extra-interesting, cocreator Eddy Kitsis promised “a new villain that we are very excited about”: The Wicked Witch, played by Lost’s Rebecca Mader. Also known to be on tap for the second half: An Emma-centric midseason premiere, the ABC series’ fresh spin on Rapunzel and Covert Affairs’ Christopher Gorham in a secret role. As for Regina finally coming face-to-face with her true love, Robin Hood, Kitis urges fans, “Keep watching!”