You're listening to Once, episode 26, Hat Trick. Welcome back to once podcast, the podcast about ABC's TV show Once Upon a Time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis.

I'm Jeremy Loughlin.

I'm Dan Flynn.

And I'm Jenny.

This episode Hat Trick takes us in a different direction than it felt like we were going with

Once Upon a Time. It was wonderful. What was that face for that our audience couldn't see?

Wonderland. Wonderful. Yeah.

Sorry, I'm a little bit slow tonight.

But I really liked this episode, for one, because they gave us a different story and

didn't really seem like a filler story because I think that the character of the

Mad Hatter, the hat, some of the mystery that was involved in this, moved the story along really well, also gave us more to think about, more to question.

And Emma, too.

Yeah.

What did you think about it, Jeremy, especially after rewatching?

It was enjoyable.

It felt like a little bit of a side road from what we've been on with the whole

Catherine thing and impending arraignment and presumably trial and all of that stuff that's

going on for Mary Margaret.

I think that this is not just a one-off. Here's another story for you. I think this is

the beginning of something that will most likely revisit and that will actually be important to the

rest of the series. Yeah, because if I think that if they wanted to cover Alice in Wonderland,

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