Once Upon a Time... Happily Never After (Season 1)

Once Upon a Time... Happily Never After (Érase una vez... pero ya no, 2022) is a Mexican fantasy series to watch online on iFILM, created by director Manolo Caro. The premise: a town under a curse that makes falling in love impossible — not difficult, impossible — and the one separated couple who must find each other across another lifetime to break it.

The show leans into fairy tale inversions with a knowing, adult sensibility. Sebastián Yatra, Rossy de Palma, Asier Etxeandia, and Daniela Vega commit fully to the genre-bending premise. What Caro is really after is the texture of a community drained of longing — and that turns out to be a stranger, sadder place than any monster story. Stream Once Upon a Time... Happily Never After (2022) online on iFILM.