Mummy Who Chose Me

About this drama

Eighteen characters, and the description field repeats the title exactly, Mummy Who Chose Me. A note on the source: this is a title-mirror listing, the official description equals the title and nothing more, so this summary can only close-read the title and must mark everything else as inference. The title turns on one ambiguous noun, and the fork is the whole premise. Mummy carries its two standard bodies in English. The British reading is mother, the nursery word, so the title names a maternal figure who chose the speaker, which reads as adoption, reunion, or a child claimed by a mother not her own. The Egyptian reading is the wrapped dead, the tomb walker, so the title names an undead thing that chose a living person, which reads as curse, guardian, or horror-romance with a several-thousand-year-old party. The relative clause structure matters too, since who personifies the noun either way, a mother is already a person, but a mummy granted a who is granted intent, and chose is the verb of deliberate selection among alternatives. The speaker, the me, is the chosen one, and what the choosing obligates is the story's business. Neither reading is confirmed, and the sixty-episode count fits both, a family drama or a monster romance. What can be said as fact: sixty episodes, complete, and a title whose one noun decides the genre. Withheld: which mummy, who is chosen, why, and every event of the plot. The catalogue confirms the count; the story is the show's to supply.

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