Head Over Heels

About this drama

The listing for this entry is the title alone: Head Over Heels, fifteen characters, the second-thinnest listing in this batch. The name is recorded verbatim, and everything below the listing line is inference, marked as such. The title is an idiom, which is the whole wager. Head over heels names the fall of infatuation so completely that the phrase has worn smooth, so the series cannot rely on it for anything but a promise of disorder. An idiom title also hides everything: no names, no setting, no profession, no genre beyond the tumble. The staging decides whether this is slapstick, a literal acrobat romance, or a slow burn wearing a comic mask. The idiom will not say. Fifteen characters, no more. What the listing does give is scale: the longest run outside the eighty-episode tier and the fourth-highest counter in this batch, from the second-thinnest title in it. That mismatch is the story of the listing. The fall is promised; the floor is not. The counter and the clock both run long: sixty-two episodes, the longest run outside the eighty-episode tier, with 3,638 views, the fourth-highest count. A fifteen-character listing holding a run that long says the audience filled the blank itself. The blank is the brand.

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