Episode 1
The dinner that put him in a temper
Coached through greetings at the house, Elliot steps outside because he cannot bear another evening of cotton-yield talk, and finds Theodore in the garden.
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The story
The short version. Boys' Love, 33 episodes on YourChannel. Elliot, the young heir of a Southern cotton estate, grows up under his father's rigid rule and keeps a secret bond with Theodore, a man held on the property.
It begins at an evening event where Elliot is coached to stand straight, smile and look Miss McKenny in the eyes; he slips away for air because the room's talk of cotton yields and running the estate has put him in a temper. In the garden he and Theodore are close, until an onlooker reminds him what his father would do if he knew what the young heir was doing with a man the estate holds. There is blood on Elliot's mouth, and he snaps that Theodore has no leave to move.
Episode five turns on the room search and the sale papers. Elliot is challenged over whether he can protect even the people the estate claims, then told to sign the document that sends Theodore away to Mississippi — farther the better, according to the father. Elliot protests that he is being made to choose and hand Theodore over himself, while the household warns that anyone who challenges the rules ends up sold off in the end.
Episode three brings the father's punishment. Norris, under the estate's order, makes the young heir kneel; the household sets lashes in turn, and whoever acts first shortens the other's punishment. The authority behind the room is Elliot's tyrannical father Samuel, who treats the estate's people as property to be disposed of.
Series facts checked against the YourChannel listing. Notes cover the opening episodes only; nothing here reveals the ending.
