Two families, one house, 130 years apart — the mirror doesn't care about your timeline.
Season 1 • Episode 26
LatestNow, though still in the attic, Daniel and Constance are trapped in another dimension. In the present time Fergus and Mandy are kneeling near the broken mirror. Fergus and Mandy gather the shards on their side. Fergus' idea is that if they put the mirror together on their side, it will fix its self on the other side, which works. A woman tells Constance how it was right for Constance to snatch the crown, because the heir is dead. The mirror appears and Constance goes through. The kids go to her grave to find a message with a clue to where the crown is. Someone comes with a letter from Constance, stating that they are the new proprieters of the Crown Foundation, Daniel decides to go home to Sydney with his mum.
Two families - De Lutrelles and McFarlanes. They both live in the same house, but 130 years apart in time. De Lutrelle's: father Gervaise, mother Violette and daughter Constance. In their age, around the house were goldfields. Family emigrated from France with the remnants of their wealth, and hoping to find gold so they would restore their fortunes. McFarlan's: father Doug, mother Jenny who decided to get in a new business: eco-tourism. Guests will stay with Doug and his family - second wife Jenny, stepson Fergus, daughter Mandy, and sister-in-law Lily, who maked troubles wherever she goes! Doug has also another son, Daniel. When the series begins, Daniel decides he wants to meet the father who left him and his mother Caroline when he was just a baby. He invites himself to stay for the holidays and, with the help of the mirror, he changes everyone's life, his own included.
Acting
Simon James carries the entire emotional arc, somehow.
Production
One location, two eras — budget constraints as aesthetic choice.
Writing
Lily's chaos agent energy in every single scene.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Created by Posie Graeme-Evans, who later developed McLeod's Daughters — this is her proving ground for rural family melodrama with supernatural scaffolding.
Antonia Prebble (Mandy) would later star in The Tribe and Outrageous Fortune, making this her origin story as a New Zealand TV institution.
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