everybody in this whole place is crazy
The 10th Kingdom (NBC, 2000)
This was a kind of nostalgia watch, albeit a nostalgia watch for something I never actually watched back in its day.2 I remember this miniseries being a big fan favorite in my LiveJournal years, and I understood it had some sort of fairy tale mashup premise. But I never had the opportunity to watch it. Then I forgot about it. But I must have remembered it enough to add it to my Letterboxd watch list because I got an email letting me know it was streaming and I thought… eh… why not?3
Virginia is a waitress in New York—who dreams of one day running a restaurant of her own. But for now, she’s stuck living with her dad Tony, a hapless building superintendent. One evening, she runs into a dog in Central Park. The dog turns out to be a transformed prince named Wendell from another world, who is on the run …
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