Once Upon A Time

This is a relatively new show on ABC that is airing on Sunday nights at 7.  I've been watching it from the beginning and it's gotten a bit better since that first episode.  I do have some basic problems with it but will continue to watch it since there is a huge lack of good scripted shows to watch lately. 
One problem I have with it is that it just happened to be released at the same time as a really good new show came out on NBC called Grimm.  Grimm has a strong sense of characters and is genuinely interesting and entertaining to watch.  Once Upon A Time lacks believable writing (yes even in this fairy tale premise).  The premise is that a city called Storybrooke houses all the characters we know from fairy tales.  Characters like Snow White, Prince Charming, An Evil Queen of Darkness, Cinderella, the 7 Dwarfs, Rumpelstiltskin, etc.  These fairy tale characters are living and working with the belief that they are normal people and have lost their memories of who they were before.  The Dark Queen has taken all of the characters in fairy tale world and put a curse on the forest in which they live.  She's put them in our world with no knowledge of who they used to be.  In this new world she's able to watch them and make sure they never escape and are never happy.  Her adopted son is the only one who's figured out what's going on and went in search of his birth mother to make things right.  The birth mother is the only person who escaped the fairy world untouched and is the only one who can lift the curse.  The boy so far has gotten her as far as Storybrooke and she's living with Snow White (her mom actually) but she doesn't quite believe the little boy's story.
The special effects are sometimes cheap and the writing for the fairy tale characters stories are really cheesy.  I enjoy the characters in the modern day settings, but once they show life back in the day of fairy tale land, things start getting down right silly or ridiculous.
I enjoy the wardrobe and a few of the characters but I'm really not super crazy about the show in general.  I will watch it until it gets cancelled (which I estimate will be within 2 seasons.)  If you like the idea of this show, I recommend NBC's Grimm instead for an overall better idea and execution.

I give it 3 1/2 out of 5 remote controls for the good interesting scenes of today's world, but the flashes back to fairy tale world are weak and a bit too cheesy for me to buy.