WiC Binges: Disenchantment (Netflix)

Episode 10: “Dreamland Falls”

The season 1 finale of Disenchantment was filled with hilarious moments, mystery and intrigue, that all led to a season-long set up for a twist that you probably didn’t see coming. “Dreamland Falls” sees Bean and her mother Queen Dagmar reunited after 15 years in which Dagmar spent being a statue.

King Zøg is understandably excited his first wife is alive, but now he has a problem: Does he set Queen Oona aside and go back to Queen Dagmar?

Elfo’s (yes, he’s still really f**king dead) funeral is held, and Queen Oona and Queen Dagmar get into a heated fight over who should rule by King Zøg’s side. Bean chooses her mother, of course, and King Zøg seems like he wants to as well. Oona gets nervous and starts acting sketchy just as several people in the castle are starting to be turned into stone.

Oona is blamed, and the king goes looking for her. Bean and Dagmar take a secret passage to a safe room, while Luci gazes into a crystal ball to learn the real truth about what’s happening. When he realizes who the real culprit is, Luci runs off to find King Zøg, and it’s revealed that Queen Dagmar meant to poison her husband 15 years ago, but baby Bean switched the drinks while trying to get some grapes, and Dagmar drank her own poison.

In the secret tower room, Dagmar tells Bean she is meant to be the future of Dreamland and that she has a great destiny. She mixes up a magically expanding batch of the stone poison and sends it out to coat the entire city, and just about everyone is turned into a statue…all except for the king and Luci who escape to the battlements of the castle.

Dagmar pushes Bean into the ocean and she jumps in after her, where a ship full of weird looking creatures picks them up and sails away.

End of episode and season 1.

For now, we don’t know where Queen Oona and her son Derek are. Luci is likely with them, as some mystery person he knew bonked him on the head and took him. King Zøg will probably be looking for his daughter and Queen Dagmar, and the rest of Dreamland has been turned to stone.

All in all, Disenchantment’s first season was really very enjoyable. While it resembled Matt Groening’s other great animates series The Simpsons and Futurama, the fact that it was set in a medieval fantasy realm with a strong and independent female lead, gave it a new fresh twist. The jokes were great, and the stories with Bean, Luci and Elfo at the center were unique and fun.

I feel like Netflix struck gold with Disenchantment, and I hope it’s picked up for another season.

But wait, there’s more!

If you stayed through the final credits, you saw Elfo’s poor lifeless body floating to shore, as two purple haired females pulled him from the sea. I’m just speculating here, but I bet they were the mermaids we didn’t see in episode 2, and they’ve got some kind of special magic that will bring the little fella back. Let’s all hope so.

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