My Wife’s Robot Lover

About this drama

Twenty-one characters with a curly apostrophe, and the description field repeats the title exactly, My Wife's Robot Lover. 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 is three possessives in a row, and the chain is the plot. My marks the speaker, a husband by implication, since the next noun is wife, and the wife is his by the marriage the title presumes. Wife's attaches the robot lover to her, so the lover belongs to her side of the marriage, and robot names the lover's nature, a constructed being, which opens the genre's two standard doors at once, the sci-fi door, an actual machine with a body and a program, and the satirical door, a human lover who is robotic in bed, cold, tireless, and mechanical. Lover states the third bond plainly, and the stacking of possessives makes the husband the title's narrator, the one framing two bonds that both run through his household. The readings divide by who is wronged and who knew, the unknowing husband, the substituting wife, the machine that learns to want, and none is confirmed. What can be said as fact: fifty episodes, complete, 5,760 views, second-highest in this batch, and a title promising a triangle with a built third party. Withheld: the husband's name, the robot's origin, what the wife wants, and every event of the plot. The catalogue confirms the count; the story is the show's to supply.

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