"Knot" worth watching.
If ABO is your thing - this is bad.
If you like Boat/Oat as a pairing - this is still bad.
I made it through 10 episodes before feeling so irritated by Knot that I had to come and actually leave a review.
I really wanted to like Knot, to give it a chance. As something different, it would be refreshing to have a little more variety in the BL genre. But unfortunately, what Knot delivered was...tepid, frivolous, and left me disappointed.
Boat and Oat have so little chemistry it's painful - not even the special effects adding in 'pheromones' to make it seem like they're burning up helped convince me the characters were remotely together. (This is incredible since those two have chemistry just joking around together, that the show managed to kill that is...mind boggling.) The side characters sometimes felt preachy or were over-acting to the point of cringe/bad camp.
Episode 10 had one character emoting all over the place physically with nothing showing in face or tone other than some makeup effects to redden high points.
I want to say more but I don't have anything constructive to say and I'm not going to dunk on Knot for trying something and not hitting the mark. I will dunk on it for being almost unwatchable thanks to the execution, direction, and script.
I'm sorry, cast and crew. I'm sorry, fans. I wanted to be able to praise this show.
If you like Boat/Oat as a pairing - this is still bad.
I made it through 10 episodes before feeling so irritated by Knot that I had to come and actually leave a review.
I really wanted to like Knot, to give it a chance. As something different, it would be refreshing to have a little more variety in the BL genre. But unfortunately, what Knot delivered was...tepid, frivolous, and left me disappointed.
Boat and Oat have so little chemistry it's painful - not even the special effects adding in 'pheromones' to make it seem like they're burning up helped convince me the characters were remotely together. (This is incredible since those two have chemistry just joking around together, that the show managed to kill that is...mind boggling.) The side characters sometimes felt preachy or were over-acting to the point of cringe/bad camp.
Episode 10 had one character emoting all over the place physically with nothing showing in face or tone other than some makeup effects to redden high points.
I want to say more but I don't have anything constructive to say and I'm not going to dunk on Knot for trying something and not hitting the mark. I will dunk on it for being almost unwatchable thanks to the execution, direction, and script.
I'm sorry, cast and crew. I'm sorry, fans. I wanted to be able to praise this show.
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