Sweet Blood (2026)

healed my vampire BL trauma

Overall: finally a vampire BL that was not a comedy (at least not intentionally) and had a solid ending. I gave this an indie rating bump. 8 episodes about 10 minutes each. Aired on Love Memory's YouTube channel https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwW9ZsuS2Fna5mZ_YiEKYIY3NukytYJHF&si=kWJI2s3lm5doc8QT

Content Warnings: blood, injury, violence, kidnapping, attempted murder

What I Liked
- premise
- visuals
- at least the world building dump was slightly better than is typical
- what happened at the end of episode 1

Room For Improvement
- not enough screen time to do the story justice, maybe should have just focused on the leads and developed their romance more
- that chomp sound in episode 1
- the fight in episode 8
- cringe parts

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Sigh

You will wonder why this was made:
1. Ambitious project for the short form genre
2. Unique for the format
3. Actors with fair skills
4. Ep 1 and 8.

Then there are the reasons why it should have cooked a little longer before being served:
1. Limited budget showed.
2. Sang Min/Minu's only two facial expressions. He did much better in Why R U, Please Teach Me and Love In Protocol.
3. Whatever the 'kissing' was.
4. Minu and Lucifer romance felt contrived.
5. Never felt the gravity of the situation. Came across as something to be viewed for the unintentional humor, cringe, audacity.
6. The knife in ep 8. This one is personal: felt out of place for a urban killing. Probably in the woods with a bear somewhere but for a vampire, hmmm.
7. The script wasn’t bad per se but very very generic.
8. The fight scene.... double sigh

I do think that for the moments it worked, it should be watched.

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