'FOX' returns! Get ready!

The first half of Season 1A brought questions galore and rest assured some will be answered in 1B but prepare for even more questions too. Not only did the mid-season finale introduce a new character but it set into motion a series of events that would change the show forever. As confirmed by Fox, she has history with him and that history doesn't look like a happy one.

Season 1B will show us more layers to Fox and Mina's friendship as well as take us to deeper into the Dream World and into the Nightmare Realms.

"The first half of the season [or series really] was to establish Fox and Mina. Now that we've done that, their story can unfold and we can introduce new characters, throw them into a different area and hopefully sneak in a few twists and turns along the way," says Monroe Hayden, who's mid-season premiere is also her directorial debut. "I wanted to do this one because this was the first one I wrote all by myself with no help and I really wanted it to be as close to how I imagined it. It's quite possibly the most emotional episode we'll do this season. Not emotional as in, we're crying our eyes out but both Mina and Fox have speeches that cover a short range of currently sensitive topics that hopefully our fans will appreciate and even relate to, therefore, displaying the heart of what our show is really all about."

Emotions? New locations? New characters? Is there more? Yes! The show is now shown in widescreen. The black bars above and below the screen are normal. Widescreen offers you the entire frame for an even better cinematic experience. Fox gets a new costume that fans of the books may find a bit familiar. In Book III of Daisy, Fox returns to Daisy wear all black that appears to be warrior's outfit. She has a feathered pauldron, combat boots and her makeup has smeared her face. We got you Daisy fans! We got you!

FOX returns Thursday at 8pm on Vimeo!

Credits: Photo by Adriana Escandon (LEFT: Monroe Hayden as Fox. RIGHT: Michael Lozano as Xander.)
Screen Capture courtesy of A&S Productions and SkySoft Entertainment LLC..
Written by Valerie P.

'Fox' Web Series Returns! Here's What To Expect!

Alexis Naiomi and Monroe Hayden from Fox

“I want a girl to call my own. I want a dream lover so I don’t have to dream alone,” sang Bobby Darin, the American singer and actor in his 1959 hit, “Dream Lover”. And although we’re not sure if he would approve of Adriana Escandon’s murky, emotional, ground- breaking fantasy drama- we are sure that her new show, “Fox” will bring the term Dream Lover to a whole new level!

Fox is versatile and fits in a number of genres from young adult to gay & lesbian to fantasy. It is a modern fairy tale that shadows friendship and love and what happens when the two combine all the while taking place in two different worlds and paying tribute to the fairy tales that inspired the show. The series begins calmly and gently, setting the stage for the two women who will capture our hearts and make us swoon but beware for it’s always calm before the storm.

Mina Abrams is played by 18- year old Alexis Naiomi, who seems like a normal girl in every way except she has accidently fallen in love with her best friend and that love has sent her into a “whirlwind of fantasy- like events” by transporting her into a dream world. I should also note that the series serves as a prequel to Xavier Haven’s digital chapter series, Daisy. In the books, Mina may have had a minor role but her character is far different from the version we see in the show. Fox focuses on her transformation from an innocent, small town girl to the daring and independent young woman we first met in the books.

However, like with all fairy tales, darkness lurks every corner, patiently waiting to take over your imagination. The darker aspect of the series is introduced by the dream girl herself, Fox played by Monroe Hayden. Fans may associate Fox with the word: perfection but this series assures us that this new Fox is imperfectly perfect with her dark secrets, animalistic presence and fearless attitude. In Episode 1 it is clear that she is hiding something as her emotions seem unaltered when she wakes up in a strange forest then shortly after, instead of fearing what waits in the rotten darkness, she actually ventures into it unafraid as if she’s been there before, which Daisy fans will know she obviously has. 

Although the episode is very short Daniel Flores brought the magic of film making wizardry by building up the tension- gluing your eyes to the screen as you anxiously waited to find out what is in the box only to wait until the next episode! You can rest assured that every episode from now on will be 3 to 10 minutes long if not longer but I can’t promise you that every mystery will be solved by the end of each.

The series itself is taking a risk and is ground- breaking in many ways by having their two leading characters be lesbians with no male figure to question either of their sexualities and without 'teaching' viewers about lesbianism or the 'gay lifestyle' that shows like The L Word and Lip Service offered in the past. Behind the curtain, the cast and crew are primarily female in which, with a little feminine touch, the love story is handled with care to avoid the salacious perspective of a male fantasy. However, male viewers (and who are we kidding- female viewers too) will get their thrill, one way or another. 

With a rating of TV-14, parents are still urged to do their research before allowing their children to watch anything on the internet but rest assured Fox will maintain their guidelines.

Fox returns May 30, 2014 on Youtube.

- Allison K.