No one is going to break out into a round of Over the Rainbow here.
No,Emerald Cityhas literally replaced the bricks of the Yellow Brick Road with poppy pollen.
In the two-hour premiere, we are introduced to the other characters and parameters of this adaptation.
Bad news for Dorothy and her little dog, too.
(In this case, a not so little German shepherd, actually.)
Along the way, Dorothy stumbles upon and saves a hot amnesiac soldier strapped to a crucifix.
Yes, this isEmerald Citys Scarecrow.
And shes just kind of meh about the whole surreal experience.
It seems especially plot hole-y that Glinda and West play by his rules.
Instead, he is a middle-aged creep in a bad wig.
There are two thingsEmerald Citygets right from the get-go.
One: the diversity of the cast.
Two: the visuals.
Traditionally, TV is known as a writers medium.
Otherwise, the scale of what they end up doing looks too tiny.
And then, theyll write another episode.
Its just the way it had to be done.
Emerald City airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Emerald Citywas a topic on the latest episode of Sci Fi Fidelity.
