Watching this series is like wrapping yourself up in a warm cozy blanket on a cold winter’s night as you are reading a romantic allegory. While the sensation is comforting, the fable still provides you with enough stimulation to keep you awake. But you suddenly realize that you reach a part in the story where one of two possible endings can happen. Either a fairy tale one or a tragic one. While I certainly love a fairy tale ending (and these two guys deserved one), I was preparing myself for a tragic one as the series did seem a bit dark overall. Unfortunately, I got neither one. And I threw off my warm blanket and started to cry with disappointment. Let me elaborate.

Overall, the premise and story are so good. It is the story of Aksorn (Beck Pichayutt) who is not exactly the ‘apple of his father’s eye’ as the expression goes. He is in direct conflict with his father’s wishes for his future. His father wants him to pursue something more lucrative in college rather than a literature career. Therefore, faced with an untenable situation, Aksorn moves out and by luck finds a room close to the university, just made available on the third floor. When he moves in, there is an old mirror there and, whether it was due to magic, or the virility of the meteor showers, or the abnormal forces from a comet’s appearance, something mystical happens. The mirror, that was purposefully left behind by the previous tenant, becomes a window into another dimension. Aksorn can now see into what appears to be another universe, similar to ours but uniquely different. Not only that, but there is also another individual staring back at him in total disbelief as well.

On the other side is another young man, close in age named Songjam (Parky Napavit). Obviously, both shocked by this new-found reality of theirs, they soon discover contemporary grounds to connect with each other to. In a sense, both see each other with the same resonance and therefore a deeper connection between the two develops. Both have only a few people in their lives, and both feel isolated and lonely. With them discovering each other, it not only becomes their individual journey to self-discovery, but it also conceives a multidimensional love. The only thing separating them is a thin piece of glass. It does not mean that they cannot feel each other’s warmth or imagine each other’s touch or sensations. However, it does mean that they are denied any chance of physicality. In a short but intense ambit, they develop an intimacy that seems almost unbreakable except that it might be unreachable.

Along the way into their discovery of one another, Aksorn meets a rather mysterious man that to an untrained eye almost feels like he is stalking Aksorn. Kyo (Can Atirut) seems to be everywhere and conveniently shows up at the most opportune times for Aksorn. His presence has obviously something to do with their story, but we cannot figure it out unto towards the end of the series. However, there are telltale signs that he is directly connected since he seems to know or sense a lot beforehand.

This series clearly and simply belongs to Parky as Songjam and Beck as Aksorn. They have such chemistry together literally from the beginning of the series. They pull off their connection with such intimacy without ever once being intimate. I found these two to be so powerful as a couple that I wanted everything to be centered around them. When they are together, there is not only screen chemistry, but also screen magic. To portray that they are behind a glass mirror yet feel and exhibit such close tenderness and devotion with one other, is, dare I say it, almost erotic. Each time they reconnect, their bond becomes more prodigious. They are simply wonderful to watch.

While the story is strikingly enthralling for three-fourths of the way, it suddenly crashes, literally and figuratively. As I mentioned, it could have had either a fairy tale ending or a tragic one. Instead, it went very weird in an odd manner, and I felt in a cringe worthy way. While I hate to give too much away, Songjam does jump through the mirror to get to Aksorn but ends up in a different timeline. And the story for me falls completely apart. He is not in the same time as Aksorn.

It was not the age difference, however, as most people might think. (My husband and I are 25 years apart, and we also know other couples with large age differences – so it can work). It was that they were two strangers. He did not look like Songjam. The fact that there is no sense, or hint, or recognition that he is Songjam by Aksorn tells you all you need to know. There is obviously no chemistry between the two. They are of two different timelines in two different worlds, and it simply did not work. The story needed time to strengthen their present relationship, which it did not do. We needed to see that develop as much as they needed for it to happen.

The logistics of this series just must be questioned along with the myriad of paradoxical issues raised by this story line:

1. Why did Songjam not end up in the same timeline as Aksorn? (Fairytale ending). Why the need for subterfuge? It seemed like a non-sequitur.

2. If so, why did he not completely change the future of Aksorn, or the Aksorn’s world around him, or simply have ended up in a different world completely, never to have met Aksorn? (tragic ending).

3. There is no real connection here between Aksorn and Kyo. They looked uncomfortable together from the beginning and certainly acted uncomfortable together. The complete opposite of how Songjam and Aksorn were. If indeed that was him, why was there not an inkling of a connection between the two? They are supposedly the same person.

4. There was no character development in Kyo. He remains a cryptic figure throughout. What did he do for the 20 or so years without Aksorn? Did he live as a hermit? What was his life like? Did he love?

5. Finally, the story was so rushed at the end that it made your head spin. Aksorn writes a book. Or did he? I could never figure out who wrote it, actually. Then he is signing copies of books? They go to see Aksorn’s father (which is in and of itself another whole story) where Kyo tells him he is in a relationship with his son) and then, nothing. The whole last episode is so rushed and unfinished.

I loved this series until they tried to gentrify its ending into something relatable, I guess. I really do not know. They had such magic in the beginning, and I wanted the story to be nothing but about Songjam and Aksorn and how they connected. It needed way more time at the end to make us feel as if these characters were related to each other and belonged to one another.

To be sure, the romantic in me would love to have seen a complete fairy tale ending, as they made such a beautiful couple. On the other hand, I would have wept uncontrollably if it was a tragic ending. In either case, we would have had a finality. But what we got was an ending that seemed out of place, unfocused, and definitely unsatisfying. And for me, it felt a bit creepy as there was no aura of love between them, but only a sense of obligation to be together. It left me feeling very uncomfortable.

Rating- 4 out of 5

Streaming on- WeTV