http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/01/galavant_review_abc_musical_comedy_is_more_spamalot_than_princess_bride.html

If you are looking for something strange and new to watch, there is no better candidate than Galavant, the fairy tale musical comedy beginning this Sunday on ABC. This is, without question, the oddest show to arrive on television in quite some time. Set in a fantasy realm in the Middle Ages, it tells the story of Galavant, a swashbuckling hero who must get his mojo back after his true love abandons him. The music and lyrics come from Dan Fogelman and Disney experts Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, but there is not one moment of Disney-musical earnestness in the first six episodes. “He wowed in every way, a fairy tale cliché,” goes a line in the opening number about Galavant’s former prowess, and that is just the beginning of the series’ consistently cheeky, hammy, self-aware, Spamalot-inspired tone. Galavant may be unapologetically musical, but it is not an entirely unapologetic musical: It mocks its own tropes—those borrowed from musicals and those lifted from fairy tales—every chance it gets.