TMC
12-30-2021, 05:41 AM
https://www.slashfilm.com/719918/the-daily-stream-galavant-is-the-best-comedy-musical-you-havent-seen/
Why It's Essential Viewing
"Galavant" was one of the great undersung shows of 2015, brought in as a mid-season replacement for ABC's hit show "Once Upon a Time," whereupon it received little attention before it was rudely canceled after just two seasons. But I'm here to sing the praises of "Galavant," a pitch-perfect fantasy satire and one of the best things that Alan Menken has done in years.
A bawdy, witty, and absurd send-up of fairy tales, "Galavant" is like if all those raunchy genre satires that were all the rage in the mid-2000s actually had decent character writing and a banging Disney soundtrack. It subverts tropes of the genre in pretty predictable ways — what if the beautiful maiden were actually a cruel, ambitious sex maniac? What if the evil king was actually just an insecure virgin (and secretly the real hero of the story)? What if a Black squire came from an inexplicably Jewish family? — but the key thing is that it has fun with it.
Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/719918/the-daily-stream-galavant-is-the-best-comedy-musical-you-havent-seen/?utm_campaign=clip
Why It's Essential Viewing
"Galavant" was one of the great undersung shows of 2015, brought in as a mid-season replacement for ABC's hit show "Once Upon a Time," whereupon it received little attention before it was rudely canceled after just two seasons. But I'm here to sing the praises of "Galavant," a pitch-perfect fantasy satire and one of the best things that Alan Menken has done in years.
A bawdy, witty, and absurd send-up of fairy tales, "Galavant" is like if all those raunchy genre satires that were all the rage in the mid-2000s actually had decent character writing and a banging Disney soundtrack. It subverts tropes of the genre in pretty predictable ways — what if the beautiful maiden were actually a cruel, ambitious sex maniac? What if the evil king was actually just an insecure virgin (and secretly the real hero of the story)? What if a Black squire came from an inexplicably Jewish family? — but the key thing is that it has fun with it.
Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/719918/the-daily-stream-galavant-is-the-best-comedy-musical-you-havent-seen/?utm_campaign=clip