Nadirs are the lowest points or the rock-bottoms of something and these for me are the lowest points of all the BL series I watched in 2024. I did not distinguish by number as they all are equally bathos. One, however, is the worst for me.

My Universe

A hodge-podge of 12 meaningless stories that were pointless and mostly poorly acted and amateurish in nature and scope. None of the stories held my attention at all.

Pit Babe

A combination of bad acting, poor screenplay and a completely inept story that tried too hard to be everywhere all at once. One of the characters created in me a visceral loathing that I rarely feel for a character, because the acting was so one-dimensional.

Cooking Crush

This story is your standard Thai rom-com droll series, treating gay relationships like infantile, immature, puppy-love versions of Pollyanna tales. It is tedious, boring, and un-challenging with not a shred of originality to the story or plot, although the food looked awesome.

To Be Continued

It was like being adrift in a rudderless boat floating in an ocean of tropes, cliches, banalities, stereotypes, and platitudes. Unfortunately, this series went nowhere because it had nowhere to go to. This series is perfectly named. It did seem to go on and on endlessly.

For Him

Quite literally everyone in this series does what he can to avoid telling the truth, or face reality, or abstain from communicating effectively, openly, or honestly. This series is poorly named. It should be renamed ‘Nail Him’ after the characters’ names. Then it might have been a smashing success.

OMG! Vampire

This is an astonishing cliché-filled nonsensical series that literally made no sense. It is an insult to anyone in a gay relationship as they treated relationships between men with either adolescent cavalier-ness or complete contempt to any sense of reality. One of the worst for this year.

My Stand-In

While liked a lot and admittedly well-acted, this series presented nothing but a picture of abuse and bullying and people with money and power getting away with what they want and getting what they want with no consequences, yet feeling like they are the victims. A detestable series overall.

My Love Mix-Up!

An infantile and trope-filled story of contrived teenage love both gay and straight. Nothing in this series did they get right. It is full of cliches and immature behaviors and child-like personality traits. A silly and stupid story that went nowhere.

This Love Doesn’t Have Long Beans*

Filled with handsome men who do despicable things to get ahead. It is one of the most immoral and ill-conceived stories ever told. Not one protagonist is worthy of sympathy or forgiveness or understanding. Acting is not the issue; the message is. It is a morally reprehensible story that should not be glorified. The glorification of infamy in the name of love as a theme is reprehensible.

Young Royals, Season 3

This series landed like a thud. It is lifeless. They are adolescent boys continuing to still act like adolescent boys in heat. Neither one understands what living is all about but pretending and acting like they do with both sets of parents overindulging them. It is all so unrealistic and just plain silly. There is nothing memorable about this series.

Love Sick 2024

Indeed, this series was a complete disaster except for the fact that they used teenagers for the roles of teenagers. Unfortunately, because of an endlessly tepid script, poor directing, lame story, and too many characters, this series stopped dead in its track. It continued to see teenage boys as sophomoric and incapable of being sexual creatures.

All of these are of equal mediocrity. Some are bad because of production or acting foibles. Still, others are just bad because they have outlived their usefulness. Every one of them should be placed in the Hall of Shame. If I had to forcibly choose “The Worst”, * would be the one because of its ignominious message. After watching this, you might have an aversion to eating any type of bean as it might remind you of this awful series. It has a very gaseous ending to it. It is so full of itself.

There are several ‘Honorable Mentions’ that deserve distinction as well. While the acting was good to outstanding, it was the script that let the series completely down. It became juvenile, full of cliché set-ups or tropey scenarios. Worse yet, they presented ‘love’ between two men with an infantile glaze or a Pollyanna frosting that had no anchor to any mooring of reality whatsoever. These included “The Rebound”; “Two Worlds”; “Jazz For Two”; and “Anti-Reset”. The acting saved these particular series from being complete disasters.

In my opinion, these are all ones you can avoid. You are not missing much, and your life will go on just fine.