I stumbled upon this little series (13 episodes of the first season, 25 minutes each) during my desperate search to find something to watch. I read the synopsis and decided to give it a chance. And I don't regret it at all. According to IMDb: "This fantasy action-adventure series follows four teenage boys who get
lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in
an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling
difference - they were never born."
How cool is that?
There are four boys in the group, chosen for an excursion by the teacher who wanted to mix his students so that they had to cooperate with someone other than a friend. And this particular group of four is an odd quartet: a Goth (Felix), an Asian kid (Andy), Mr. Popular (Sam) and Mr. Boss (Jake).
The series tells the story of an unusual friendship that formed among those four. Friendship that would be unlikely under normal circumstances. Jake and Sam were friends, Sam was the popular guy who rode his skateboard, Jake was great at sports and took care of his Mom, Felix was "this freak kid" who loved songs about decay and death, and Andy was a rational, brainy kid. Their presence in the world where they never were causes the disruption and quickly turns out that someone is on their trail. Or make it something...
Not only boys have to find their way back home to their real families, they have to make a run for their lives too, when they discover (with somewhat reluctant help of Phoebe, a town witch) that a demon of restoration wants nothing more than to restore the order of nature. That spells: get rid of the disruptive four little elements (sic!). But nothing's impossible when they have Felix and the talisman (their terminology, not mine) that protects them from the demon. Oh wait, Sam smashed it to pieces...
This little series is unique in its deeply humane aspect. It shows how those four boys value family and friendship. When demon hurt their Not-Mothers on Mother's Day, Sam said this amounts to "pure evil" to hurt moms on this day. Even though, technically, they weren't their moms. But despite that, boys did everything they could to save those four women. They wanted to return to their real families, sometimes broken and dysfunctional, sometimes goal-oriented, sometimes reality-detached. But they belonged there and felt loved. They realized more in those days than during normal years, they became better persons. And through their all efforts combined, they crossed back to their world. But they were not the only ones...
I will not spoil the watching for those who might want to watch this little gem, so I will not say a word about guilt-ridden Felix and his simple, non-Goth wish or Phoebe's missing sister, a powerful and deranged witch...
But I know I'm watching the second season now.
Here you have trailer for season 1:
Enjoy^^
