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This week we're watching "Pizarro and the Inca Empire", "Jacques Cartier", "The Age of the Conquistadores", "Champlain", and "England and the Thirteen Colonies", so on the whole we're covering the 16th and 17th centuries tonight. Each episode's runtime is roughly 24 minutes, so we're looking at 120 minutes or 2 hours of scheduled content.
Plot summary: There's not really much to say about the premise of Once Upon a Time... The Americas since it's just, y'know, the history of the continent of Abya Yala told through vignettes with the recurring cast of characters we all know and love from the previous three OUAT shows (Man, Space, and Life).
Content warnings and accessibility
Audio description: Not available.
Sign language: Not available.
Language of audio: English (4 episodes) Spanish ("Champlain").
Captions: English hardsubs are available on the Spanish-language episode. Let's thank Redcuban1959 for xyr effort in creating the subtitles, even though doing so meant spoiling the episodes for xemself.
Content warnings:
These are content warnings for Albert Barillé's Once Upon a Time... in general:
- Death incl. murder
- Sexual assault
- Nudity
- Animal gore
- Disease
- Racist caricatures
- Religion presented as fact
- Eurocentrism
- Children getting serious diseases
- Vanishing Indian myth
- Problematic depictions of cops, slavery, and settler-colonialism
- Problematic depictions of race and class issues in general
So although Once Upon a Time... The Americas is a kids' show, you should still expect it to get pretty damn yeesh, just like its predecessors. Last week someone actually had to leave early because their "blood boiled" from the show's coverage of Columbus et al.
