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Once Upon a Time… Man
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Once Upon a Time… Man actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Once Upon a Time… Man reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
The history of mankind from prehistoric times to the 20th century.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E26
Once Upon a Time... the Earth (and tomorrow?)
S01E25
The Crazy Years
S01E24
The Belle Epoque
S01E23
The Awakening of the People (Revolutions of 1848)
S01E22
1789–1814 (The French Revolution)
S01E21
America
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Music
- Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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