The site, originally started by two guys who wanted to talk similar topics, has resurfaced not far off from its original purpose. In November, 2011, we gave a new life to the site, so to speak, with podcast offerings on what we see fit. It’s not a slight at entertainment media outlets that do offer the latest and greatest in the industry. Rather, it’s the two of us having a conversation about the things we like.

Unless it’s football, we don’t work on appointment television. That is, we don’t schedule time out of our day to watch a show or go out and catch a movie. We consume on our time. We produce podcasts and blogs on our time. Don’t we all have enough planned events that dictate us? We don’t need to make our down time just as arranged. Check back often has we work to develop our library of reviews and breakdown of the entertainment we enjoy.

The site, originally started by two guys who wanted to talk similar topics, has resurfaced not far off from its original purpose. In November, 2011, we gave a new life to the site, so to speak, with podcast offerings on what we see fit. It’s not a slight at entertainment media outlets that do offer the latest and greatest in the industry. Rather, it’s the two of us having a conversation about the things we like.

Unless it’s football, we don’t work on appointment television. That is, we don’t schedule time out of our day to watch a show or go out and catch a movie. We consume on our time. We produce podcasts and blogs on our time. Don’t we all have enough planned events that dictate us? We don’t need to make our down time just as arranged. Check back often has we work to develop our library of reviews and breakdown of the entertainment we enjoy.

The site, originally started by two guys who wanted to talk similar topics, has resurfaced not far off from its original purpose. In November 2011, we gave a new life to the site, so to speak, with podcast offerings on what we see fit. It’s not a slight at entertainment media outlets that do offer the latest and greatest in the industry. Rather, it’s the two of us having a conversation about the things we like.

Unless it’s football, we don’t work on appointment television. That is, we don’t schedule time out of our day to watch a show or go out and catch a movie. We consume on our time. We produce podcasts and blogs on our time. Don’t we all have enough planned events that dictate us? We don’t need to make our down time just as arranged. Check back often as we work to develop our library of reviews and breakdown of the entertainment we enjoy.

Contributors

Dori Zinn

Dori has been living in South Florida since she was eight and can’t fathom residing anywhere else. Since graduating from Florida Atlantic University in 2008 with a journalism degree, she has built websites, written and edited publications, blogged, and served on the local chapter board of SPJ South Florida.

Dori’s hobbies usually turn into work. In 2009, she started a food blog, fatkidsclub.com, where she gave reviews on local restaurants and homemade recipes. Shortly thereafter, she began contributing to Clean Plate Charlie - the food blog for Broward New Times. While the FKC website may have died out, the quips of the Twitter page lives on. Since the birth of Social Media, Dori also helps build companies’ reputations and branding through the online medium.

Dori loves food, sports, sleeping, and Jack Daniels. Follow Dori on Twitter.

 Joey Cortez

Joey has been a geek ever since his father introduced him to the in’s and out’s of computers as young as eight years old.

When his family moved to South Florida when Joey was nine, he got more involved with his father’s various companies constructing work stations and wiring telephone lines. With a background in computer programming and going to college for business, Joey now contracts as a web developer through his family’s business consulting firm.

With adoration for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and History, Joey loves epics – anything from Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter and the Odyssey. However, nothing gets in the way of his love for football, most notably the Dallas Cowboys and Tom Brady. Follow Joey on Twitter.

“Once Upon A Time” doesn’t serve as a modern adaptation of a classic fairytale. It reinvents it. The new ABC show, which airs Sundays at 8 pm EST, makes the notion that there are no more fairytale endings.

The story focuses on 28 year-old Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), a bail bondsperson from Boston who answers a knock on her door from Henry (Jared Gilmore), the son she gave up for adoption 10 years prior. To show some compassion, Emma drives Henry back to his home in Storybrooke, Maine, where he believes that “time is frozen.” All the townspeople, he claims, are characters in his fairytale book. They are only in Storybrooke because of a curse by the evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), who also happens to be the town’s Mayor and Henry’s adopted mother.

Henry believes Emma is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming and the only person who can end the curse on the town of Storybrooke and return the citizens to their fairytale of happily ever after.

See the episodes available on demand on ABC and Hulu.

Our Two Cents

Dori: What I love about Once Upon a Time is that the writers, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (Lost, Tron:Legacy), have a history of taking someone else’s story and making it their own. As a child, I questioned what “happily ever after” looked like. With this show, we see it’s not always about the “happily ever after,” but rather, if they characters can regain it.

Joey: Its always risky when you try to re-interrupt something as classical as childhood fairytales, but from what I’ve seen so far I’m interested. It isn’t too hard to take fairytale characters and assign them to townspeople. I’m eager to see how each well known character’s backstory will be woven into the plot.

Dori: While the characters at times seem to be a little off point and the back and forth of the current and fairytale lands were hard to grasp at first, I’m interested to see if this show can hook me in for the remainder of the season. Really, I just want to know how long a show about an understood happy ending can go.

Joey: I’m giving the acting and the visuals a pass until midseason, just because I want to see how the story develops. But if I feel the writers are dragging it along for more episodes then I’m liable to just drop the show altogether.

Dori’s rating: 80          Joey’s rating: 72