First of all, I went into the show as a possible Hulu Plus guilty pleasure, based off some potential I thought I saw in the show's early trailers. I have been pleasantly surprised by the show several times and its been upgraded from guilty pleasure to just normal pleasure that I can actually publicly acknowledge liking, at least for the time being.

The moment that really sold the show to me was the introduction of the small town's version of the magic mirror: Mr. Glass, the Editor of The Daily Mirror. His first line on the show included "...fresh from The Mirror" and that was one of those smart, knowing laughs that proved to me that the writers are having at least some fun.

I hadn't expected the Sheriff to be the wolf, mainly because we've seen glimpses of "The Wolf", or at least "A Wolf", but also I felt like he seemed so much in early episodes like a Sheriff Nottingham ploy and was curious if we'd see a Robin Hood type thing... Obviously things turned out more interesting than that.

The Wolf: Red has a (presumable) boyfriend with a muscle car that we only see glimpses of (so far) in cutaways between diner scenes. He tends to wear jewelry with a wolf symbol and IIRC his muscle car has at least one wolf symbol on it as well. Red will sometimes have a piece of jewelry with a wolf on it that she will fidget with in that sort of way that's long been a soap opera staple to denote an on-again/off-again/back-on-again misery relationship. I'm hoping these symbols/glimpses pay off in an interesting way.