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A Story About Everything, That Somehow Ended Up Saying Nothing
I’m still not entirely sure what I watched.
There was reincarnation. Time travel, maybe. A cursed coat? Some incense. And a love story that was supposed to span centuries but barely held together scene to scene. Black Knight didn’t just fumble its plot — it buried it under so many tangled concepts that I felt like I was constantly trying to solve a puzzle without knowing what the picture was supposed to be.
It’s not like the ingredients weren’t there. A solid cast. Gorgeous cinematography. Hints of myth and mystery. But everything was so bloated and self-serious that it became impossible to care. I wasn’t emotionally checked out — I was just lost. Not in a fun, twisty, where-is-this-going way. More in a why-is-this-still-happening way.
The romance, which should’ve been the emotional spine, never clicked. Not because the actors lacked chemistry — they did what they could — but because the writing gave them no real human stakes. Everything was fate, destiny, past lives, soul bonds. But none of it felt earned. There were moments that should’ve landed, should’ve meant something, but the buildup wasn’t there. Just a lot of intense staring and vague declarations about protecting each other, forever or whatever.
It’s rare for a drama to leave me feeling absolutely nothing, but this one came pretty close. The tone was all over the place — melodrama crashing into mystical exposition, laced with random plot threads that never wove into anything coherent. I kept watching because I thought, surely this will come together. It never did. If anything, it unraveled more with every episode.
By the end, I wasn’t angry. Just exhausted. And vaguely amused at how far off the rails it all went.
I don’t throw around 1s lightly. But this? This earned it.
There was reincarnation. Time travel, maybe. A cursed coat? Some incense. And a love story that was supposed to span centuries but barely held together scene to scene. Black Knight didn’t just fumble its plot — it buried it under so many tangled concepts that I felt like I was constantly trying to solve a puzzle without knowing what the picture was supposed to be.
It’s not like the ingredients weren’t there. A solid cast. Gorgeous cinematography. Hints of myth and mystery. But everything was so bloated and self-serious that it became impossible to care. I wasn’t emotionally checked out — I was just lost. Not in a fun, twisty, where-is-this-going way. More in a why-is-this-still-happening way.
The romance, which should’ve been the emotional spine, never clicked. Not because the actors lacked chemistry — they did what they could — but because the writing gave them no real human stakes. Everything was fate, destiny, past lives, soul bonds. But none of it felt earned. There were moments that should’ve landed, should’ve meant something, but the buildup wasn’t there. Just a lot of intense staring and vague declarations about protecting each other, forever or whatever.
It’s rare for a drama to leave me feeling absolutely nothing, but this one came pretty close. The tone was all over the place — melodrama crashing into mystical exposition, laced with random plot threads that never wove into anything coherent. I kept watching because I thought, surely this will come together. It never did. If anything, it unraveled more with every episode.
By the end, I wasn’t angry. Just exhausted. And vaguely amused at how far off the rails it all went.
I don’t throw around 1s lightly. But this? This earned it.
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