No fairy tale series paid tribute to the Brothers Grimm better than this one.
Fairy tales go back hundreds of years, even thousands if you look at Aesop and his fables. Hans Christian Andersen was a major name due to his creation of works like "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Ugly Duckling," but the genre wouldn't be where it's at now without the Brothers Grimm. German siblings Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm changed history in the 19th century.
There have also been some rather strange takes on the Brothers Grimm. In the 1980s there was the short-lived The Charmings, which had Prince Charming and Snow White getting married, then transported to California, where their lives take on a sitcom-like feel. The last decade also saw the NBC series Grimm taking the popularity of fairy tales and cop dramas and spitting out a show with a police detective who discovers he's a Grimm. None of these shows is better than The 10th Kingdom.
Virginia and Tony end up going through the mirror and entering the other nine kingdoms. What follows is a quest adventure akin to Lord of the Rings or The Wizard of Oz. There are even trolls, with Ed O'Neill, then coming off his run on Married With Children, as the Troll King. The 10th Kingdom deftly transports our heroes from one Brothers Grimm world to the next.
The 10th Kingdom has adventure, it has romance, it has laughs — but like with so many fairy tales, there's also something darker lurking underneath. Virginia's life is consumed by the fact that her mother disappeared when she was very young. She's gone inward because of it, never doing much with her life, never letting herself fall in love or give herself to any man. She is built by that loss.
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