1) Favorite episode: Bad Blood. Written by Skin Deep’s Jane Espenson, it did not disappoint. I loved learning more about Jafar’s tragic backstory and his motivation, Jafar pretending to be Alice’s father, and Alice’s father’s entire speech to Alice about how he should have believed her.
2) Least favorite episode: Who’s Alice. While it was nice to see more of Alice’s backstory, this episode just felt flat. I think what really killed it for me was the whole Borogrove subplot, where Alice was hypnotized by the plant to forget about Cyrus. That was just…so boring and total filler, hence Daniel’s joke about “Borogrove” on the podcast.
3) Favorite Character: Bloody ‘ell, I gotta go with Will, AKA the Knave of Hearts. This thief with a heart of gold is quite the show-stealer.
4) Favorite moments?: “I’m gonna die like a bloody smore.”, the entire exchange about the Knave being “stoned”, Edwin’s speech about how he should have believed Alice, and the decapitated Tweedle telling the Red Queen “I think he’s on to us…”
5) Overall reaction to the season so far: It started out fairly rough and its still not as good as the parent series, but it has its own charm to it. It’s a fun little spinoff that adds to the mythology of our beloved Onceverse.