Taken by the Deep

About this drama

The listing carries its title alone, seventeen characters, no synopsis, so this entry is a close reading of the title with every inference marked as such. Taken by the Deep is built on a passive verb, someone is taken, and the agent is the Deep, the ocean's oldest personification, the word itself carrying depth, darkness, and whatever waits below the light. The passive means the story most likely begins with a loss or an abduction, a person carried off by the sea or by something that lives in it, and the title alone does not say whether the taken one is the protagonist or the one left behind, both are standard tellings, marked as inference. In short drama the phrase most often opens a mermaid, siren, or sea-creature romance, the Deep as the lover's kingdom, or a darker register where the taking is literal and the surface grieves, the title does not choose between them. The register implied is dark romance or sea horror, and the title does not soften either way. What the title cannot supply is everything else, who is taken, why, what the Deep holds, and whether the ending is a return, a transformation, or a drowning, all the show's to supply. Thirty episodes, complete, 795 views.

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