Season 2
And they lived happily ever after... or so everyone was led to believe.
To ensure that no one in fairytale land - especially Snow White - had anymore "happily ever afters," Evil Queen Regina cast a curse which trapped the fairytale characters, frozen in time, and brought them into our modern world.
Although still alive, they had no knowledge of their former selves and were sleepwalking through life - ageless - for 28 years, until their saviour arrived in the form of Emma Swan.
Unbeknownst to Emma, she was the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, who had whisked her out of fairytale land and into our world as an infant to save her from the curse.
Abandoned as a baby, Emma's life was anything but magical. Her last job was as a bail bondsperson, but she mostly went from job to job without much of a life plan.
When her 10-year-old son, Henry, whom she gave up for adoption years ago, appeared on her doorstep with a book of fairytales and told her a crazy story about how she's the prodigy of fairytale characters who are all trapped in a town called Storybrooke, she thought he was nuts.
But curiosity got the better of Emma, and she brought Henry back to the town and soon found out that Storybrooke was indeed more than it seemed.
Regina, ever the control freak, had placed herself as Mayor of the town and was Henry's adoptive mother. But over time, Emma began to see through the cracks of the curse.
And the only way she could truly break the curse was to accept her destiny as liberator of Storybrooke's characters and to fight for their freedom.
Once Upon a Time stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Broadcast Notes
Season 2 premiered on M-Net Series Showcase on Thursday 11 July 2013, at 19h30. New episodes broadcast weekly, except for the final episode, which aired on Friday 6 December 2013, at 18h00. There are 22 episodes in the second season.