Where the Moon Meets the Sea

About this drama

The listing carries its title alone, twenty-eight characters, no synopsis, so this entry is a close reading of the title with every inference marked as such. Where the Moon Meets the Sea is a place-phrase title, it names a location rather than an act, the horizon line where reflected light touches open water. Titles of this shape usually stand for a meeting that the story itself performs, two beings or worlds that touch only at one edge, the moon's sky and the sea's depth, the pairing sketched is celestial against marine, a lover of the sky and a lover of the water whose only shared ground is that bright line, all of this is inference from the image, not listed fact. The register implied by the phrasing is lyrical fantasy romance, and the word Meets, mild and mutual, leans away from abduction toward an encounter, again inference. What the title cannot supply is everything else, who the two are, why they are bound to their separate elements, who or what keeps them apart, and whether the ending joins them or leaves them meeting only at the line, all the show's to supply. What the listing does give besides the title is two hard numbers, and the episode order is the notable one, sixty-four episodes, the longest run in this batch. Sixty-four episodes, complete, 1,936 views.

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