Mini-series alert! I’m also excited that since the site has been redesigned, you guys can see I’m not an idiot and the title of the article has an apostrophe in it. I don’t need to sell “The 10th Kingdom” much. It’s a reimagining of old fairy tales similar to “Once Upon a Time”. I am familiar with both of these because of my girlfriend. Not saying men can’t like it, because I do, but sometimes it takes a feminine touch to open me up to new things. So if you know what either of those things are, you’re probably REALLY into them. This program happens to take a more comical approach so that’s likely why I enjoy it more. I will warn those who want to watch, it’s over 400 minutes long, so either get the flu and kill it in a day or break it up.
Maybe a nice vase on the head will do it.
This particular fairy tale piece, much like the new ABC series I brought up, operates in two different worlds. My girlfriend’s heart attack when she found this on Netflix after losing her DVD makes sense now because those two worlds are New York and a magical fairy land. Those are her two favorite things.
The story gets a little trite so let’s run it down very quickly. In New York Brady Paisley’s wife lives with her dad in an apartment where he is the maintenance man. They live a meager life until she hits a dog with her bike in the park and it turns out the dog holds the soul of Prince William, How cliché can one thing get?
Okay. The story isn’t simple. This evil queen was in jail for being evil. She escaped and cast a spell on a dog so that when he touched the prince they would trade bodies. She then trained the now human dog to be her puppet. She’s in league with a troll king and his three kids. They’re trying to kill this dog with Prince William’s soul in it. The kids track him to New York through a magic portal. The Queen then sends a half man/half wolf to hunt the dog down using his sense of smell. Holy crap that’s confusing. Just watch it. Maybe it’ll make more sense to you.
Let’s fast forward through some wacky elevator, magic pills and slavery. Then there is a long adventure and a wolf and some girl get it on. It’s weird. I’m going to be honest. I watched this a while ago and I’m overwhelmed with how much goes into it. Basically the Queen and the main girl are related and her evilness is an accident and someone turns a fish into gold. Snow White shows up too.
If you like fantasy and fairy tales, I think you’ll like this series. The DVD was on Amazon for like $80 but now then it was on Netflix so forget that noise and now its $10. So watch it even though I didn’t give you all the details. When you watch it you’ll see how impossible it really would be.
