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The end of The 10th Kingdom sees the Evil Queen defeated and Wendell back in his human body and on the throne. When she flees after, she is taken in by the Swamp Witch, crossing through the mirror and becoming a woman consumed by power who has forgotten that her daughter even exists. She was a very troubled and disturbed woman, so much so that she even once tried to drown her young daughter in the bathtub. The 10th Kingdom goes very dark in showing us a Christine in our world from decades past. The twist comes in the reveal that the Evil Queen is Virginia's mother. Still, at the end of the day, she's a little girl crying to her father about how much she misses her mother. He might be a horndog, but he's also a hero who will do anything to protect Virginia. Moving through the nine kingdoms has given her a chance to overcome and grow stronger as a confident woman. She's gone inward because of it, never doing much with her life, never letting herself fall in love or give herself to any man. Virginia's life is consumed by the fact that her mother disappeared when she was very young. The 10th Kingdom has adventure, it has romance, it has laughs - but like with so many fairy tales, there's also something darker lurking underneath. He'll have her on your back before you can say, 'happily ever after.'' That's some pretty risqué stuff for network television. When he finally gets his chance to take Virginia on a date, Wendell tells Tony, 'Kiss your daughter's virginity goodbye. Whenever he gets excited, his tail pops out, a reference to. He might care deeply for her, but it also drives him crazy to keep his hands off her. Much of The 10th Kingdom is lighthearted fun, focusing on the horny Wolf falling in love with Virginia. She and her father get themselves wrapped up in Wendell's woes, all while being chased by Wolf ( Scott Cohen), who has been tasked by the queen to bring Wendell back. Virginia is a lonely woman, but her world is turned upside down when Prince Wendell ( Daniel Lapaine), who has been turned into a dog by the evil Queen Christine ( Dianne Wiest), flees through a magic mirror and is transported into our modern world, known as the 10th Kingdom. In a pre-9/11 world ( The 10th Kingdom shows the World Trade Center frequently, including in its logo), motherless and single Virginia ( Kimberly Williams) lives in New York City with her father, Tony, played by John Larroquette of Night Court fame. In 2000 came The 10th Kingdom, which aired in five two-hour slots throughout February and March. A few years earlier he penned the Ted Danson starring Gulliver's Travels, which aired on NBC. It wasn't his first foray into the realm of fantastical miniseries. The 10th Kingdom was written by Simon Moore. Yes, Once Upon a Time might be the most popular, but anything they did, The 10th Kingdom did it first.

None of these shows is better than The 10th Kingdom.

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The last decade also saw the NBC series Grimm taking the popularity of fairy tales and cop dramas and spitting out a show with a police detective who discovers he's a Grimm.

In the 1980s there was the short-lived The Charmings, which had Prince Charming and Snow White getting married, then transported to California, where their lives take on a sitcom-like feel. There have also been some rather strange takes on the Brothers Grimm. A few years ago, there was the little-seen CBS All Access series Tell Me a Story, which again set fairy tales in the modern age. From Once Upon a Time came a much less successful spinoff, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - which, as you can guess from the title, focuses on Alice in Wonderland. The twist? They can't remember who they are. The clever premise has our favorite fairytale icons transported to our modern world. In the last decade, fairy tale-set shows have become more popular thanks to the hit ABC show Once Upon a Time, which ran from 2011 to 2018.