Due to push backs suffered from creative differences and taking an awfully long time for rewrites, Emerald City has finally reached network television. In spite of possessing strong aspects and ambitious elements, Emerald City is beyond any doubt, has been squeezed tightly through the primetime wringer, making it come out distorted on the other side.
The plot of Emerald City saunters around the basic storyline that we are all too familiar with; only, in this case, it comes out with a bit more pizzazz and a modern flavor of its own, which might be good or bad. The character of Dorothy played by Adria Arjona is a girl who is twenty-two years of age from Kansas.
She leads an unassuming and very plain old normal life as a nurse in her local town, Lucas. Dorothy decides to pay her birth mother a casual visit after she comes to know of her identity. Dorothy had been abandoned by her mother when she was an infant.
When all of a sudden, she is sucked up by a tornado and crashes into one of the witches of Oz. Although the intro does address all of the typical key points in the stereotypical backstories, it all happens in a rush and doesn’t give enough time for audiences to enjoy and digest it all.
Ina matter of minutes we are not in the city of Kansas anymore.
When Dorothy enters this strange new world, she is received by these children in the woods called Munchkins. And she is off to meet the wizard down a path made of bricks, which is covered in yellow poppy seeds. She then runs into a fellow encapsulated in straw hanging from a wooden cross.
All these signs which we are all too familiar with leaves the audiences wondering what to make of the show, how to interpret it.
Even though the show is scattered with mature content and profound meaning, the overall plot comes off slightly insipid, and it struggles to get hold of an identity for itself. As the show advances, the awkward combat between over-simplification and complexity goes on.Even when we are presented with the great and powerful wizard, it is hard to tell if he is intended to be playful or frightening.
In spite of this body of contradictions being a little unsettling, it does create an enticing component that will leave viewers intrigued.
We soon get to meet our Scarecrow played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and our Glinda, who is played by Joely Richardson and our wizard, who is portrayed by Vincent D’Onofrio. Yet we are still left with many questions that are unanswered and will leave you wondering which side of the coin the answer will land on; will it be obvious or the implicit.
Given that the bulk of the content is painstakingly literal, the peppering of newly added characters and unexplained plot twists make it is hard to predict what will happen next. The bundle of contradictions within Emerald City leaves us perplexed and maybe a bit irritated, and desperate to know more.
The premiere date of the show was January 6, 2017. While the premiere time slot for its airing being 9 – 11 p.m. ET/PT. The show is regularly aired at 9 – 10 p.m. ET/PT on Fridays. Here is the list of the episode titles and the date on which they are slated to air.
EPISODE TITLE GUIDE:
The Beast Forever, then the Prison of the Abject, airing on January 6, 2017. After that the Mistress – New – Mistress, on January 13, 2017, following which comes the rest beginning with Science and Magic, on January 20, 2017; then Everybody Lies, which will air on January 27, 2017.
Then will come Beautiful Wickedness, airing on February 3, 2017, followed by They Came First, on February 10, 2017. After that the trio of episodes consist of Lions in Winter, airing on February 17, 2017; The Villain That’s Become, airing on February 24, 2017, and lastly No Place Like Home, on March 3, 2017.