Welcome to my Saturday blog post, where I give thoughts on dramas I’m watching, whether at the beginning, middle, or end. Whatever I want, because I’m petty that way.
This week, I continued recapping The Crow Club with episodes 3-4. Each couple gets about 4 episodes, so this week the cute ghosts’n’college section wrapped up neatly.
I also recapped episodes 3-4 of Oops! Mysterious Sounds. Finally, we got to the murder, mysterious sounds, and some kissing!
In this week’s Mid-Week Update on my Patreon, I had thoughts about Police in Love, Fool in Love, Mr Fanboy, Good Boy and Juliet & Juliet. Join my Patreon to get a Mid-Week drama report, as well as advance notes and rough drafts of the shows I’m recapping.
What did I watch this week?
A lot, but the new stuff is still too new to review, so I’ve got exciting reviews for shows I finished a while ago. That’s it. That’s the theme. Let’s start with:
Mr.Kill – มังงะสั่งตาย – 2026
Recently aired cop-cartoonist Thai bromance with 10 episodes.
A webtoon artist ends up working with a cop when someone starts using one of his old comics as a blueprint for a killing spree.
The reason I haven’t managed to do a final review of this show until now is that it was fine. It ended. I didn’t regret watching it. And it’ll slowly fade into the recesses of my memory until something random triggers it to return briefly.
There were twists and turns, but the end wasn’t surprising
As I wrote in my initial review, I appreciate that it tried to do a lot, but in the end it couldn’t pull it off.
It reminded me of Dare You To Death, because it felt like it was trying to copy popular thrillers rather than create its own story. It had all the important thriller scenes: characters in peril, lying to each other, or forced to do something because the killer wants them to.
But they didn’t always make sense within the story because they weren’t motivated by the characters. They were just scenes that a thriller would have. Including the ending, with a villain that was obvious and our leads doing things without reason to create suspense.
The result is that the overall plot felt unfocused and underdeveloped. It raised questions, but moved on to the next scene without exploring them.
It didn’t help that a couple of characters, specifically the sister of one of our leads and her friend, were very weak. The sister seemed to exist to make plot things happen, with no internal logic. I have no idea what her friend was supposed to bring to the story.
If you like a medium-intense thriller, bromance, and/or Dew’s acting, this is for you
Otherwise, it’s in that “not quite good enough to recommend” category for me.
Some time ago I also finished:
The Servant Prince – しもべの王子様 – 2026
Recently aired opposites-attract-but-more-complicated Japanese BL with 8 episodes + 1 special.
A man who’s lost everything tries to let go of the successful partner he’s used for sex and comfort since high school, only to discover a new side to their relationship.
Here’s a trailer-ish-thing in Japanese.
As I wrote in my initial review, I thought this would be a combination of My Beautiful Man, Life in Smokey Blue, and Fake Fact Lips. Instead, it was Perfect Propose.
I like Perfect Propose, but it’s not what the show promised in the beginning.
The show SEEMED to be about kinky power dynamics
Between a Poor Rich Boy and his Powerful Submissive Partner.
Instead, it became super domestic super fast, and focused on the Poor Rich Boy restarting his life and dealing with his horrible father. With the love and care of his Powerful Submissive Partner, who sometimes worried about how he’d fit into his partner’s new life.
There was a lot I liked about that healing/restarting life story. In particular, there were no horrible attempts to redeem the father or reframe his wretched behavior as acceptable “tough love.” It was very sweet the way our Poor Rich Boy found a new place for himself in life that made him much happier than what he’d been doing.
I also just like domestic, healing stories where a character goes through something and becomes stronger than before. With the love of a good partner.
BUT, I am disappointed that the kinky aspect of the show was largely dropped.
It left the Powerful Submissive Partner’s inner conflicts unexplored. I found it really interesting how afraid of himself and his own dark urges he was, and that he handled them by turning over his power to his partner. I wanted to see him and his partner explore this aspect of his personality, why he is this way and how he can enjoy it, more.
In my initial review, I just wanted them to stay weird. And they did. Sorta. But in a very domestic way.
This is still a rewatch for me, because I like kinky weirdos and domestic stories
But I think it’s a hard sell. People who want sweet domestic/healing stories don’t want kinky weirdos. People who want kinky weirdos don’t want sweet healing/domestic stories.
If your tastes are like mine, you might enjoy it. Especially if you go into it knowing that your kinky weirdos will eventually set up a fake campsite in their home to host an older couple to talk about how amazing their partners are.
Finally, I have a short final review of:
Summertime – 하절기 – 2026
Recently aired Korean High School BL with 10 episodes.
Things change for childhood friends when teenage hormones and a new transfer student get involved.
As I wrote in my original review, this was a show about horny teenagers falling in love. I wasn’t sure where the show was going because one of the characters seemed to be especially dark and twisted.
But it didn’t go anywhere dark or twisted
It went down the well-worn path of childhood-friends-to-teenage-lovers we’ve seen before, amusement parks and all. Their relationship changes. This causes new complications they have to handle. Sex and arguing ensue.
Like the other show I just reviewed, the one horny teenager’s darker side was never explored. It was just who he was and less of a problem as time went on.
The only real surprise was the end, which suddenly went artsy-fartsy and upset the internet. The ending didn’t bother me as much as it did strangers on the internet, because I interpreted it a certain way that seems to be what the show intended.
But it is perplexing to me that after 9.75 episodes of horny teenagers being stupid horny teenagers with each other, they went with a vague, confusing ending.
If you can handle that kind of ending and love this genre, go for it
But I think for most people this is going to be a pass. For me, it was entertaining, but I’m not likely to watch it again.
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