In the first season of another kingdom, Austin lively came to Hollywood straight out of film school.

He'd sold his first script and was hoping to make it big in the movie business.

The pressure was on.

Austin's mother and father were both prestigious professors at UC Berkeley,

where they spread the social engineering ideas of the billionaire, Surge Arozgo.

Austin's brother Richard was a best-selling author at Arozgo's Think Tank.

That meant Austin and his kids sister Riley, a goofy maker of conspiracy theory videos,

were the low-functioning black sheep in the family.

And so Austin was eager to make good.

But things didn't work out.

After years of failure, Austin has become a low-level part-time reader at Mythos Productions,

one of Arozgo's companies.

His chances for success are slipping away, and he'd be willing to sell his soul to make it in Hollywood.

Then one day, Austin walks through a door and finds himself suddenly in another kingdom.

Here, in a magical country called Galeana, the wise Queen Elinda has only just managed to escape with her life

after a coup de Poeser from the throne.

Austin arrives on the bizarre scene inside a locked room.

There's a dead woman on the floor, and Austin is holding the bloody dagger that killed her.

He's immediately arrested, thrown into a dungeon with a ravenous ogre.

He's slated to stand trial and condemned to torture by the tyrant Lord Iron and his high council.

Austin seems doomed until a mutant rodent named Maud shows up and helps him escape.

Now and then, during these adventures, Austin goes through a door and is flashback to Los Angeles

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