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Emerald City Review: A Dark, Ambitious Retelling of Oz | Collider | emerald city review

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If you're a fan of the aboriginal 1939 cine The Wizard of Oz and you're planning to analysis out NBC's new cogent of the story, Emerald City, you should apperceive that you'll be in for article absolutely different. For acceptable or ill, Emerald City takes added of its chance from the 14 Wizard of Oz books that were accounting by L. Frank Baum, and admirers of the cine who've never apprehend those books will hardly admit the chance they acquisition here. Emerald City is a apathetic bake fantasy alternation area The Wizard of Oz is filtered through a Game of Thrones lens and admirers ability not apperceive what to accomplish of it.

For starters, this Dorothy Gale (Adria Arjona) is not a kid. Our Dorothy is a 20-year-old assistant still active at home with her parents in tiny Lucas, Kansas (population 393). Back she tries to accomplish a appointment to some afresh apparent family, a tornado touches down, of course, and she gets aerated abroad to the bewitched and awe-inspiring as fuck acreage of Oz, with annihilation but the clothes on her aback and a badge dog (yup, that's our Toto) for a companion. Dorothy is anon affected to accord with a berserk altered apple and try to cantankerous the backroom of this new acreage as she tries to get home.

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As anyone who's apparent the cine would, you will, naturally, be apprehensive about the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. Well, I watched the aboriginal few episodes and Dorothy's alone non-canine accompaniment is a proto-Scarecrow (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) whom she finds blind on a cantankerous a few afar from area the tornado deposits her. The man is begrimed and covered in straw, and, afterwards she gets him down, Dorothy realizes that he remembers annihilation about his activity afore actuality strung up. She calls him Lucas, afterwards her home town, and the two booty off on the chance together. Dorothy is aggravating to get to the Emerald City, with the hopes that the Wizard (Vincent D'Onofrio) can advice her get home.

After watching four episodes of Emerald City, I still don't absolutely apperceive what to accomplish of it. I knew it would be added developed than The Wizard of Oz, but I wasn't assured absolute mysteries, murders or subplots that don't (right now, anyway) absorb Dorothy. It should additionally be acclaimed that anyone who's planning to accept their little kid watch this appearance ability appetite to booty a footfall back. Remember back I mentioned Game of Thrones? Well, this appearance isn't as barbarous as the HBO drama, but there is a fair bit added claret and corruption than what appeared in the cine adaptation of these stories. There's an impaling, some amputations and some chic austere bodies about, so, yeah, parents of baby accouchement beware.

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I can acclaim Emerald City on a few things. The apple is absolutely added congenital up than what you ability brainstorm if you've alone apparent the movie. There are towns with awful apothecary owners, Wildling-like tribes, a brothel run by an opium admiring Wicked Witch of the West (Ana Ularu), a Glinda (Joely Richardson) who takes in girls (possibly via some arguable means) and teaches them to be the Wizard's attorneys and a chicken brick alley that's, uh, absolutely not fabricated of gold bricks. You absolutely won't be apathetic advertent all this apple has to offer.

Emerald City additionally looks fantastic. Director Tarsem Singh, who additionally serves as an controlling ambassador forth with alternation architect Matthew Arnold, David Schulner, Shaun Cassidy and Josh Friedman, was called to absolute the absolute series. Anyone who's apparent his assignment before, in films such as The Cell, The Fall and Immortals, knows that he has a abnormally absurd appearance that's absolute for a appearance like this. The assembly fabricated an accomplishment to acquisition absolute apple locations that fit the fantasy apple they were attractive to build, instead of relying on CGI, and it absolutely shows. It additionally helps to absolutely asperse the admirers in the action.

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While both of these things accomplish Emerald City absolutely watchable, conceivably the best affair about it is the performances of Arjona and Jackson-Cohen. As Dorothy, Arjona is abundantly likable; she makes the appearance feel like a absolute woman befuddled into an absurd alternation of situations who is consistently cerebration on her anxiety and bent to do the appropriate thing. Jackson-Cohen works altogether as her accomplice in adventure; he gives the appropriate air of abstruseness to a appearance whose accomplished we apperceive annihilation about, but still manages to accomplish us feel like we can assurance him from the beginning.

Emerald City debuts this Friday at 9 p.m. EST on NBC with a appropriate two-hour premiere. Be abiding to analysis out our midseason premiere agenda to see what abroad you can watch in the advancing weeks.

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