The life of a young teenager girl named Dorothy Gale, who once has been taken from Lucas to the distant and dangerous area of the Oz, has been changed completely, as she struggles against survival in such a corrupted and dangerous place, where the Wizards threaten the life there, the thing that makes the ruler struggles.
The overall result is a first season that has its flaws, but features enough delightful weirdness to intrigue those willing to give it a chance... Emerald City is without a doubt an epic leap into the unknown. Sometimes, it soars.
Emerald City's horror tends more toward the familiar-stolen children, addiction, suicide-but it's a fascinating world to enter, if not always a totally absorbing one.
Emerald City is perfect Friday night fantasy TV. Dark, but full of diverse color. As close to Game of Thrones as broadcast TV can get - and that's not a diss.
It's just as muddled as Once often is, and too ridiculous to be taken seriously as an epic as Thrones, which is not surprising, given the show's long stay in development purgatory.
It all looks good, but Arjona never gains real traction as Dorothy and some of the side stories become distractions. Still, Emerald City is an ambitious, if derivative, project for broadcast television.
I am optimistic that Emerald City will start to create a more solid identity as it delves deeper into the plot, but for now we must settle for uncertainty.
I DO know that Emerald City is the direct result of some evil thing hooking the cheerful, technicolor classic The Wizard of Oz up to the death machine from The Princess Bride and sucking every ounce of life out of it.
