Once upon a time, long, long ago, a princess and a fisherman, Soledad (Mónica Maranillo) and Diego (Sebastián Yatra), were madly in love with each other. Soledad’s two mothers are – of course – against, so Diego decides to fight at the front. And, because he doesn’t have much faith in the durability of Soledad’s eternal love, he asks a local witch for a spell: until he has returned to her arms, Soledad will not be able to fall in love with anyone else. But not just Soledad. The whole village will not find love until then. The spell is also linked to a small blue dragon: as long as it is still alive, the curse, pardon, spell can be broken.
Then the series jumps forward to the present. Diego and Soledad are still not reunited. The princess’ castle is now a hotel, run by Mamen (Rossy de Palma, one of Pedro Almodovar’s muses). The blue dragon is the biggest attraction. Almost everyone in the hotel agrees that Maxi (Yatra), the village prostitute, must be Diego’s reincarnation, but there are no unambiguous images of the princess. Perhaps it is the attractive Juana (Nia Correia), who visits the hotel with her lover Antonio (Asier Etxeandia). There is some rush: the spell can only be broken once every seven years, during a pink moon, and the blue dragon is dying.
Which Happily Never After something different from most fairy tales is immediately clear at the beginning, when Soledad immediately asks for condoms during a clandestine visit with Diego. Happily Never After is an above-average horny fairy tale, at least where Maxi/Diego is concerned. Sex without love turns out to be just a bit too depressing for most residents. The solution is simple, by the way: the spell is location sensitive, so they could also leave the hotel.
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Maxi must of course visit every girl in the search for his princess. Though, somehow, he never ended up with Goya (Maranillo), his best buddy.
It’s quite ironic: Diego, the man with so little faith in his beloved’s love that he had to bewitch her, later doesn’t recognize his great love himself – she has a heart-shaped scar on her cheek! Unfortunately, it’s an irony that the series itself doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge.
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