Today we are recapping the very best moments from this week's penultimate hour of ABC's new musical comedy series GALAVANT.
Such Delicious Friction "There it is - Valencia!" Our noble and occasionally naughty hero GALAVANT (Joshua Sasse) arrived in the famed city tonight along with his heroic compatriots Princess Isabella (Karen David) and Sid (Luke Youngblood) thanks to the helpful guiding hand of the Pirate King (Hugh Bonneville). The resulting royal trickery, doo-wop harmonies, general monk mayhem and the very first appearance of none other than pop parody king Weird Al Yankovic in the OUTRAGEOUS and off-color world of GALAVANT as the Confessional Monk made for a sprightly, sardonic and spunky first half-hour of the GALAVANT hour, appropriately titled "Completely Mad...Alena" (written by Casey Johnson and David Winsor, directed by John Fortenberry). Of course, while our journey has been leading up to this moment all along, the epic and expansive presentation of the vaunted land as envisioned on the ep and the long-awaited reunion of GALAVANT with his beloved Madalena (Mallory Jansen) were both certainly worth the wait. Yet, is Madalena beyond redemption now following her even more nefarious actions against King Richard (Timothy Omundson) with the aid of her maid, Gwynne (Sophie McShera)? Indeed, Madalena seems positively poisonous to the core anymore - first she thwarts Galavant's proposal to win her back by agreeing to stay with the king, only to repeatedly and rapaciously cheat on him with the jester, and, now, she plots to do the amusingly dotty king in for good; or, as the case may be, for bad. The real question remains: will Madalena reap redemption by the final frame of the miniseries or is she destined to be deemed yet another foe on Galavant's gallant and grand path? We will have to tune into next week's finale hour to find out for sure, but at the present time it looks quite grim for the grossly unlikable royal lady. In any event, what GALAVANT himself sang at the episode's start could very well also apply to the series itself as it stands, and next week's vastly approaching finale: "I can't believe we're almost there!"
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