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 recapped episodes 3-4 of Nour. I could watch Ken struggle against the irrepressible force that is James and his feelings for hours. And thanks to this show, I am!
I also finished up The Prosecutor’s Proposal with episodes 9-10. Beach screensaver aside, there were a few issues. But read my review below to get my thoughts on the series as a whole.
I also finished up my commentary on both Knot and Be My Player Two on my Patreon this week!
If you read below, you’ll understand why I’m now switching to a Mid-Week Update! Instead of focusing on one show, I’ll talk about what I’m watching and enjoying but not reviewing or recapping. Join my Patreon to check it out!
What did I watch this week? Well, for one thing, I finished:
Knot – KNOT – 2026
Recently aired omegaverse Thai BL with 12 episodes.
A man who only just discovered the omegaverse and that he’s an omega is bitten by an alpha and they… Nothing happens. Seriously.
I really hate it when negative reviews start by saying how someone WANTED to like a thing, because who cares? But with this show, I’m giving myself permission.
Knot, I was so excited for you. Boat. Oat. Omegaverse. Mpreg. I wanted soap-y hijinks with car crashes and shootings and visits to the hospital and yelling and slapping and betrayals and pheromones and blood and tears and… other stuff.
But it was just boring.
I don’t care if AI wrote the script, humans were responsible for reading it
Maybe sometime before they got to set?
Because the “scenes” felt like the actors were handed scripts and told to do what was on them, then they hit record.
The result is I got to watch long, drawn-out sequences of characters trying to get another character to drink juice, or characters debating what to order for lunch.
Look, I know I love Ai Long Nhai’s climactic shoe-buying scene in the final episode, but Ai Long Nhai was a college BL, not omegaverse. (And also, not a show I’d recommend widely, even though I enjoyed its nonsense.)
Things needed to happen in this show.
In theory, it’s about a complicated omegaverse universe where omegas and alphas struggle against their biology while betas are left out. Our Alpha-est of the Alphas loses control and bites our Omega-est omega, and then they’re stuck dealing with the consequences.
I know this was supposed to be a theme, because characters would give long speeches about it. Repeatedly.
Our lead pair, bound by a biological bond, has to struggle with this forced relationship. Especially our clueless Omega-est, who didn’t realize he was in the omegaverse until a minute before he got bitten.
First, he resents what’s happened. Then he starts having feelings for his Alpha-est. But can he trust those feelings? Are they real? Or are they just the pheromones talking?
Never mind, they’re in love. And we know they’re in love because they keep talking about it. And sometimes have sex.
The talking about it is a real theme
Remember how Pit Babe explained nothing about the omegaverse, but a lot of stuff happened? Racing, kidnapping, child trafficking, betrayals, Pit Babe getting hit in the head by a hammer?
This is like a photographic negative of that show. The omegaverse is explained. A lot. A doctor even explains the titular knotting to our leads. It’s all talk.
There are a few “action” scenes. But remember what I said about handing the actors scripts and then just hitting record?
So the action scenes are a mess of characters with guns shooting or getting shot in a way that doesn’t make any sense, except we can’t kill our main characters.
Afterward, the characters lie about what happened to cover up the fact that no one bothered to think through the mechanics of the scene before they hit record.
The characters also don’t have characters. Alpha-est is Responsible Older Brother. Omega-est is… Scrappy? The middle Alpha brother cares about beta rights, and that’s all he talks about, until even his Beta Boyfriend looks tired of it. The youngest brother is Irresponsible. Their mother likes to pick flowers.
If any of this sounds fun, that’s because it took a few seconds to read. There were some fun, ridiculous bits, like when Alpha-est fell in love with a coffee cup or Omega-est wouldn’t change his jorts.
But these moments were rare in twelve episodes of about an hour each. Have I mentioned that one episode is almost entirely Alpha-est and Omega-est, sitting in a car, waiting for someone to notice they haven’t returned home from a gunfight?
You can’t hate it unless you love it
That’s a favorite quote from an excellent film, Last Black Man in San Francisco, that I apologize to for bringing up in this review.
It’s because I love silly, ridiculous, cheap shows that I’m so disappointed by this one. I like Ai Long Nhai and Love in the Air and Pit Babe (BOTH seasons). I enjoyed the meaningless barrage of sex scenes that was My Stubborn and was looking forward to seeing our leads here, again, in what I eagerly anticipated to be a more fun disaster. But it wasn’t.
No, I probably can’t say I hate it. It’s just a show. But the disappointment is deep.
The only people I can imagine truly enjoying it are fans who have to support either the omegaverse or our leads Boat and Oat, no matter what it means enduring.
Now that that’s off my chest, let’s talk about a show where they pulled off the exact opposite, achieving something impressive despite the constraints:
The Prosecutor’s Proposal – 검사실의 제안 – 2026
Recently aired Korean thriller BL with 10 episodes.
The son of a murderer goes to work with a zealous prosecutor who hates all things murder. But their first case seems tied to both their pasts.
With ten short, twenty-ish minute episodes, this show manages both a complicated, generation-spanning murder mystery AND a complex love story.
So let’s talk about that story
Our murder’s son, Chaeha, finds himself unexpectedly transferred to the prosecutor’s office as an investigator, working under Taeseon.
Everything I know about how the law works anywhere comes from TV, but how it works in Korea doesn’t seem to match anything I saw on Law and Order. Instead of just the cops doing the investigating, the prosecutors and their investigators ALSO do the investigating.
So, they’re investigating the strange case of a man who seems to have died while smuggling drugs into the country. Who would dump the body of a man who died because of his own illegal activities?
The answer leads to a nearby casino, the nasty daughter of a rich conglomerate family, old crimes, and Chaeha’s father. Who, maybe, didn’t kill anyone.
All that and a bucket of messy romance!
With a FANTASTIC height difference. Ahem. Anyway.
Chaeha admires Taeseon and his unbending attitude about truth and justice in a world that is corrupt and cruel.
Taeseon hates Chaeha for being the son of a murderer. But also, he wants to kiss him.
And despite the harsh way Taeseon treats him and (or because of?) his crazy, consuming kisses, Chaeha has a thing for Taeseon. Even when Taeseon puts him in charge of reinvestigating his father’s murder.
This is definitely a freak-for-freak situation. Taeseon seems terrible, especially at first when you don’t know his motivation, but Chaeha is into it. And Taeseon’s Terrible is because he feels so strongly about making sure bad guys get found and punished. Something Chaeha also very much wants. And apparently finds sexy.
So, I get it, Chaeha.
And the show pulls it off despite the limitations of its runtime and budget
It’s not a show full of action scenes or characters. It’s a show of tense conversations and police investigations with no time wasted on extraneous stuff or repetition.
Yet, it also manages to fit in a cute drunk scene.
Not to overstate things just because of my frustration with the show reviewed above. With its limited cast, the ultimate baddies and what’s going on aren’t the biggest mystery in the world. On the other hand, if you aren’t paying attention, it’s easy to lose track of what’s happening.
And a lot of details come and go fast and feel underdeveloped. But there was no way they could have developed them with the time they had.
Then, there’s the last episode. Rather famously, there’s some absolutely hideous… green screen? But to me, the bigger problem is they just ran out of time to tell the story, and the last 10 minutes are a rushed attempt to get everything across. The green screen should have been scrapped, but that scene wasn’t great anyway.
They really needed another episode to flesh everything out. I’m not sure who decides how many episodes a show has, but I don’t think it’s the people trying to make the story work.
But outside of a few choices (like that green screen scene), I can’t think of how they could have done better with what they had.
More importantly, the BL is BLing
All the mystery and thriller exist to put our two guys through an emotional ringer, pushing them together, pulling them apart, making them cry and fight and kiss. All that good stuff.
If you like dark, slightly toxic BL mixed with a good mystery, watch this. And cross your fingers that it encourages shows like this to get better budgets and more episodes.
Or, you can always read my recaps and decide if it’s for you or not.
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