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- 108. Hades Out-Deals Rumple | OUAT S5E14
This episode of Once Upon a Time has Hades dangling Hook over a river of screaming souls, Milah clocking in for her afterlife shift as hell's crossing guard, and Rumple learning that every deal he's ever made still has a payment due, all while Gold keeps one very big secret from everyone, including us, and Storybrooke Circus digs into when a mystery is intriguing and when the show is just refusing to tell you what question you're supposed to be asking.
Episode Review starts at 35:16
S5E14: Devil's Due
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
3 hr 9 min - 107. Snow White Gets Her Groove Back | OUAT S5E13
While teenage Snow White is learning from Hercules that being a hero starts with failing at it, grown-up Snow is dragging that same demigod through the Underworld to prove he still has one more labor in him, with Regina delivering the pep talk that finally gets her to stop being Mary Margaret. Storybrooke Circus digs into how Once Upon a Time turns a Greek myth into Snow's origin story, why Henry's deal with Cruella feels like a problem for later, and what it means that Hades answers a jailbreak by handing Hook an impossible choice.
Episode Review starts at 33:04
S5E13: Labor of Love
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
2 hr 56 min - 106. Storybrooke Goes to Hell | OUAT S5E12
While the Evil Queen's birthday party in the Enchanted Forest turns into a very tense hunt for a gift only Snow White can provide, our heroes land in a spooky knockoff of Storybrooke where everyone is dead, stuck, and holding a grudge, and plenty of those grudges are about them. Storybrooke Circus digs into how Once Upon a Time uses its 100th episode to drag Regina's oldest wounds back into the light, and what it costs her to finally face them.
Episode Review starts at 45:50
S5E12: Souls of the Departed
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
2 hr 46 min - 105. The Dark One Pays the Price | OUAT S5E11
Storybrooke's entire population of resurrected Dark Ones wants one soul to buy their way back to the living, and Gold's advice for surviving that math is to go hug the people you love instead of fighting it — advice Emma has no intention of taking, because the last mistake still uncorrected on her Dark One redemption list is currently walking around in leather, hearing his own name in the dark. Once Upon a Time finally lets that confrontation happen, and Storybrooke Circus spends the hour arguing over whether saving someone and losing them can be the exact same thing.
Episode Review starts at 1:21:45 (a long one this time!)
S5E11: Swan Song
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
2 hr 50 min - 104. The Real Dark Hook Stands Up | OUAT S5E10
Season 5 Episode 10 of Once Upon a Time finally gives us Dark Hook in full leather-and-vengeance mode, Emma trying to hold onto hope that love can still pull him back, Gold winning a duel clean only to lose Belle anyway, and the timeline finally catching up to present-day Storybrooke with answers to how Merlin died and how Excalibur ended up back in that stone — Storybrooke Circus breaks down why the past finally catching up might be the scariest villain this season's produced.
Episode Review starts at 31:20
S5E10: Broken Heart
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
2 hr 51 min - 103. Merida and Flashbacks and Bears, Oh My | OUAT S5E9
A story that never leaves its own past can still tell you everything about the present. On this week's Storybrooke Circus, we review Once Upon a Time S5E9, "The Bear King" — the series' only all-flashback episode! Merida inherits her dead father's unpaid magic-helm debt, recruits a debt-collecting Mulan and a wolf-cursed Ruby to track it down, and spends the whole hour making a case for leadership that doesn't need magic to be feared.
Episode Review starts at 49:00
S5E9: The Bear King
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
3 hr 8 min - 102. Two Births and a Funeral | OUAT S5E8
Emma finally runs out of good options, and the choice she makes to keep her family alive is something none of us saw coming on Once Upon a Time.
In this episode of Storybrooke Circus, Steph and I break down Merlin's grim ultimatum under Arthur's orders, the full-blown magical showdown that follows, and the fallout of Emma's last-resort plan.
Meanwhile, back in Storybrooke, Zelena's pregnancy speeds toward the finish line and Hook turns interrogator, grilling the Dark Swan for answers she's nowhere near ready to give.
It's an episode about what people become when the last good option disappears — and how fast a family will burn the whole kingdom down rather than lose each other.
Episode Review starts at 47:48
S5E8: Birth
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
2 hr 49 min - 101. Merlin's Ex Becomes the First Dark One | OUAT S5E7
Turns out the entire Dark One curse started because a guy fell in love with a woman holding a magic cup he told her not to drink from. Sound familiar? Once Upon a Time really said "let's do the forbidden fruit thing again, but Arthurian."
In this episode of Storybrooke Circus, we break down Merlin and Nimue's 1,000-years-ago origin story, the exact moment she becomes the very first Dark One, and how none of it stopped Emma from needing to summon a literal warlord out of her own subconscious to finish the job. Meanwhile, back in Camelot's present, Merlin's team races to reunite the dagger with Excalibur before Emma loses herself completely.
It's an episode about how every "I'm doing this to protect people" origin story eventually curdles into the exact villain it was trying to prevent — and why nobody in this universe ever learns that lesson the first time.
Episode Review starts at [TBD]
S5E7: Nimue
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
2 hr 37 min - 100. BONUS - Once Upon a Milestone | OUAT Bonus
100 episodes. One rewatch. Zero regrets (mostly). We're celebrating The Storybrooke Circus's 100th episode the only way that makes sense — with cake-tier chaos.
Social Media Guru Steph joins as cohost for this milestone, and I sit down with romance author Melissa Kendall to talk fairy tales, storytelling, and why we're all still obsessed with happy endings. Plus — a surprise video tribute from you, the listeners, that I absolutely did not see coming.
It's an episode about gratitude, good company, and 100 episodes of overanalyzing a show about a woman who turned into the Dark One approximately four times.
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
1 hr 57 min - 99. Merida's Big Lesson in Bravery | OUAT S5E6
Merida spends a whole flashback proving she's brave enough to save her own kingdom without magic. Cool lesson. Shame nobody in Storybrooke got the memo.
In this episode of Storybrooke Circus, we break down Dark Swan's plan to manufacture a hero out of Gold, Merida and Belle's flashback mission to save her brothers with nothing but skill, and Gold pulling Excalibur from the stone.
It's an episode about two very different tests of bravery—one earned, one forced—and what happens when the person setting the test doesn't care which one it is.
Episode Review starts at 43:20
S5E6: The Bear and the Bow
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Links:
Watch the Show Recording LIVE - https://twitch.tv/mackeemousemedia ||
fanlist.com/thesbcpod - Have something to say? Join the fanlist and send a voice memo or text to be featured in the Storybrooke Daily Mirror! ||
Come join the SBC DISCORD!! https://discord.com/invite/rbGdThZxUQ ||
SBC Insta - https://www.instagram.com/thesbcpod/ ||
Email - [email protected]
2 hr 24 min
About Storybrooke Circus: A Once Upon A Time Podcast
From the publisher's feed
Every fairytale has a beginning. If Once Upon a Time meant something to you, this podcast is an invitation back to the magic. Episode-by-episode, let's revisit the series to explore its characters,…
flashbacks, and fairytale mythology, looking at how the story works, why it holds up, and what we might have missed the first time around. Whether you’re watching for the first time or returning to a favorite episode, step back into Storybrooke with fresh eyes. Pull up a chair. The stories may be familiar, but the conversation is just getting started.
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