Although parallel-universe plots seem to be getting a little overdone these days, the series still had an interesting premise. Mum wanting to save Dew's life by traveling to an parallel universe is an engaging character goal. Unfortunately, as the story progresses, it gets a tad too messy and bizarre. It can be rather hard to follow (even more so w ahen third parallel universe emerges while the first two parallel universes are not even clearly sorted out). The rather interesting mystery regarding the identity of the person wanting to kill Dew also fizzles out and gets lost in a tangled mess.

To complicate matters further, there is one Mum and one Dew in each parallel universe. This isn't unexpected, but while we start with the idea that Mum in Universe 1 falls in love with Dew from Universe 2 and that the same people can have at least slightly different personalities across the universes, we also end up with the characters behaving as though their love interest in one universe can actually be substituted with their counterpart in another universe: Mum 1 loves Dew 2, but after failing to save Dew 2's life, Mum 1 somehow falls for Dew 1, practically treating Dew 1 as a substitute. Perhaps there is some deep philosophical question to be explored here, but I don't really see it being explored. And it can destroy our sense that the characters are even truly in love.

Eventually, what is there to love about this series? You can take away the parallel universe concept entirely and I dare say most viewers are not going to miss it. You can even make Mum and Dew characters who are not in parallel universes (just turn it into some time travel premise), and the story might well turn out better. In fact, you can even turn Mum and Dew into the side couple and the story might just become better. It seems that what is universally loved is Wee and Game, the side couple who really deserve to be the main couple in a story without any parallel universe premise. And this shows how the main story falls flat.