“Once Upon a Time” has some of the stupidest, clunkiest dialogue I’ve heard this fall season, but that didn’t stop 12.8 million people with vaginas from watching ABC’s adaptation of fairy tales last night.
ABC’s fairytale drama Once Upon A Time got off to a great start last night, pulling in a 3.9 rating/10 share among adults 18-49 and 12.8 million viewers against NFL football on NBC and the World Series on Fox. This is ABC’s highest-rated new series premiere this fall and the season’s No. 1 drama debut in 18-49 on any network. [Deadline]
Ah, there we go! My eyelid twitch is back. I’d almost gone through half a day of TV news without it showing up. I thought something was wrong there, the way my blood pressure was low and I wasn’t craving a drink before five o’clock. Glad to see everything’s back to normal.
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I overpowered my vaginal urge to watch this!
I watched and it took about 48 minutes for me to get past how annoying Jennifer Morrison was on House and HIMYM.
Is this the one with the DA who Bash used to be engaged to, or is it the other one? I can’t keep track anymore.
against NFL football on NBC and the World Series on Fox
There’s your answer, apparently ABC has stumbled upon a common denominator amongst sports widows and cat ladies. Next month ABC will begin airing a Wipeout-style game show against Monday Night Football featuring models getting sprayed with acid.
this show was whack. i hope grimm is better
This is why we can’t have nice things on ABC.
Except Modern Family and Happy Endings, of course.
This just in: Women like horrible shit.
In Jennifer Morrison’s defense, she does have a REALLY nice ass. not 12.8 million viewers nice, but still.
WOOP WOOP!
It looks like Jerry Seinfeld spooged all over the other guy in that pic.
It probably helped that the score of the football game was something like 41-7 by the time it aired here on the west coast.
@The Sports Machine – I’ve been staring at that pic thinking the same thing. I thought more about that picture than anything that happened on that show last night.
Women be watching terrible t.v. shows.
I’ll watch only if you promise Jennifer Morrison’s furrowed brow will choke on its sincerity and her character will die in a pool of her own unyielding ethics
I’ll get that bitch seven dwarves. Bitches loves dwarves.
I’m sure the ratings will drop. My wife was really excited for this show. Fifteen minutes in, she tossed me the remote and left the living room. Great sign.
I just tried to watch the pilot, didn’t make it to the end. This is just so bad. The premise is obviously stupid, but it’s not the only vow.
The “fairy tale” parts are just so poor in every way, especially the dialogues and acting, but since Ginnifer (what a stupid name) Goodwin is in it, it was to be expected. They also have a southern black priest dressed as the pope officiating a wedding, you guys remember this character from you childhood tales I’m sure? Nope? I guess they were just afraid to being called racist by casting to many white guys, so they felt obliged to throw in a couple of african american characters, which in my book makes them even more racists. It’s like the TV8/movie way of saying “Hey dude, I’m not racist, I have MANY black friends!”
I think I’ve guessed the show is supposed to be set mainly in the modern setting of Storybrooke after that, but it wasn’t a lot better, and I will not stick around to verify it.
I was about to turn it off and then, boom, Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin.
You have me for one more episode, Once Upon a Time.
What the hell is this, a Glass Menagerie remake?
Now I can’t stop thinking about Sam Waterson in a poofy shirt.