SummaryA modern retelling of the classic has 20-year-old Dorothy Gale (Adria Arjona) and her K9 police dog taken to another world via a tornado.
Created By:Matthew Arnold, Josh Friedman
Emerald City
Season 1 Premiere:
Jan 6, 2017
Metascore
Mixed or Average
47
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
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Mixed or Average
47
23% Positive
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32% Negative
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10 Reviews
Jan 6, 2017
83
The overall result is a first season that has its flaws, but features enough delightful weirdness to intrigue those willing to give it a chance.
Jan 5, 2017
70
Friday’s premiere consists of two episodes, which is good, because two hours is about how long it takes you to acclimate to the tone and intent. In the third episode, a doozy, the show’s grip on you really tightens.
Jan 6, 2017
50
When Emerald City builds much of its narrative around how weird and edgy the place is, it just feels tired. You’ve seen this take on Oz before--and done better.
Jan 3, 2017
40
Emerald City's ambitious pretensions of being the next great adult dark fantasy keeps colliding with childish, clumsy tendency toward unpleasant shock value. [2-15 Jan 2017, p.19]
Jan 5, 2017
30
Emerald City is a turgid attempt at fantasy burdened by the weight of its own pretensions.
Jan 6, 2017
20
We soon begin to see the method behind this show’s storytelling: If there’s a way to pump more pretentious gas into the story, Emerald City will find it.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
65% Positive
70 Ratings
70 Ratings
13% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
22% Negative
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
Apr 14, 2021
8
Visually amazing -- good acting in this dark reimagining of the Wizard of Oz. Adria Arjona is a compelling lead as Dorothy, trying to make sense of a hostile world, and each of her traditional sidekicks are creatively recast and given their own stories. The witches were excellently cast -- and it doesn't hurt that Emerald City is Antonin Gaudi's dream city brought to life. We hope to see Dorothy return in a second season!
Apr 8, 2021
4
Terrible miscasting ruins a potentially interesting premise. Dorothy Gale is played far too hood-rat NYC Puerto Rican for it to mesh with a series that includes wizards & witches in Oz. It's too bad because visually it was amazing. Pity the casting and to some extent the writing wasn't up to it.
