Nov. 30, 2025

1.11 DramaBox - Wild Ride with the Dangerous Kian

1.11 DramaBox - Wild Ride with the Dangerous Kian
In this episode, Megan reviews the series 'Wild Ride' featuring the characters Lydia and Kian. The conversation explores the dynamics of their relationship, Kian's troubled past, and the twists in the plot that lead to character revelations. Megan also discusses the production quality and visual effects of the series, concluding with her overall thoughts and rating.
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Welcome to my vertical Obsession. I'm your host, Megan, and

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today we are talking about wild Ride with the Dangerous Kien,

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which is on Drama Box. So the synopsis for this

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is Lydia Gray, a sheltered daughter of a cop, meets

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Kean Wilder, the dangerous magnetic leader of the Dark Hawks,

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on her eighteenth birthday. One night of adrenaline and escape

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changes everything. When Lydia learns that the man she's fallen

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for is the criminal her father has been hunting, desire

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and danger collide, the line between love and ruined blurs.

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Can she survive this? Wild Ride? And It stars James

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and Leah Mutes as Lydia Gray and Evan Anderson as

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Keen Wilder. So what this series breaks down to is

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that it is a series of a good girl meets

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bad boy and they fall in love now only for

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the good girl's father to stop it, or so the

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story would go that way. You know, in this case,

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the way the father stopped the relationship was by going

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after Kean's crew. The two didn't let them stop that.

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Lydia was willing to betray her father and all he

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stood for to save the boy she cared about just

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like Kian was willing to give it all the way.

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When he found out that he was the one who

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killed Lydia's mother, he couldn't bear to cause her harm

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and wanted to make sure she didn't hate him. Thankfully,

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he was able to get the truth more both of them.

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Fate brought them together and helped them both get redemption

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and peace. It's kind of how I saw the series,

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so going into each kind of character, he got Lydia,

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who again he said, sheltered girls, who father was a cop,

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so she never really got into trouble. She ended up

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torn between her father's work and protecting the one person

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who cared about her, which was Kean. And of course

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she chose to protect Keian because she knew there was

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more to him than what he was showing and what

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people made her believe. That while he acts tough and dangerous,

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there was this kind soul in him, and she wanted

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to bring that part of him out. She tries to

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protect him by walking away, but realizes she's better with

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him and to tell him the truth that her father

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was a cop and trying to go after him and

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his gang, and when he tried to do the same,

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she knew he didn't mean it and wouldn't let him.

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She actually would refuse to walk away when he wanted

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to try and make it right. And just like he

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was protecting her, she protected him in all different ways.

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It's like she could see beneath him and beneath what

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he was putting on for this persona that he had.

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He may come off dangerous and may seem like he

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was wild, but she knew deep down that that wasn't

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who he always was. It wasn't always the type of

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person he was. Whereas Kian's character, he acts as this

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dangerous criminal, but in the truth, he was thrown down

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a bad path and all because his brother was greedy.

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This caused him to believe that he was it's a

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killer and no good, and after getting kicked out, he

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did what he needed to survive, which is create this

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dangerous criminal gang of the Dark Hawks, and he had

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this whole he was kicked out. His father kind of

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didn't believe he was any good, so he just kept

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with that notion that he was no good. People wanted

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to believe it, so he just went with it, creating

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the Dark Hawks, doing dangerous criminal deals and stuff like that.

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So he kind of embraced that a little bit, which

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is what I said with here, where he thought people

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expected it of him, So that's what he did. But

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he still lived by a code code to honor and

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protect he sees as family. So those he sees his family,

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he would honor and protect. That's his whole code, and

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that was always something that he instilled in the Dark

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Hawks motto. So when he found out he hurt Lydia,

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he knew she was better off without him, so he

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chose to give everything up for her, and that he

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had rather been in jail then hurt Lydia, because when

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he found out that he was the one who killed

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her mother, he wanted to make things right, and he

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had rather been put in jail than hurt Lydia with

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the truth or have her live with this notion that

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the one person she loved was the person who killed

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her mom, and he was willing to protect her in

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any way he could. And that's kind of how they

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formed this bond together, is that he wanted to protect her,

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she wanted to protect him, and the two just kept

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basically protecting each other from all these different things once

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they met. And I truly believed that it was one

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of those things where fate kind of brought them together

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for this, because if they had never met, Keen and

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Lydia would never have found out the truth about what

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happened to Lydia's mother. Kean would have still lived with

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this notion and this idea that he was the one

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who caused that rat instead of the true person who

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did it, and Lydia would never have found out who

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actually killed her mom. It would have still been her

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father trying to figure it out and chase down who

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it was. So some of the things that I had

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noticed in the series that I wanted to talk about

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were when Kean was shot after a deal kind of

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went self and Lydia showed up to let him know

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that her dad was going to come and read or ambush.

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He was going to come and arrest, so she was

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trying to prevent that from happening. But Keen ends up

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getting shot, And it's just depending on how it looks

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and where you are in the scene and story, the

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gunshot changes. So it was in his shoulder, Yeah, it

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was in his right shoulder, and then all of a sudden,

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it's just blood, but it doesn't look like there's a

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shot and he's not like in pain, he's not holding it,

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he's not trying to put pressure on it. So it's like,

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did he actually get shot or was it supposed to

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be just a graze? Like how was that supposed to

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be Because all of a sudden, it's like it's not

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that big of issue anymore. And it's just that kind

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of confused me, especially when he gets stopped by Lydia's father,

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well and there's blood on his shoulder. Lydia's father, being

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a cop, doesn't even ask about it. Did he even

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notice it? You'd think a cop would ask why is

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your shoulder bleeding or why do you have blood on

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your shoulder? But there was nothing to that between the

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shooting and then getting stopped. I'm just like, what in

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the It was just a little far fetch for me

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that that part. And I still don't understand was he

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shot in the shoulder or was it just supposed to

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be like a graze on the shoulder because it never

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really showed anything else. There was never bandage there either,

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So I'm like, so was he shot? And how bad

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was he shot? And another thing that kind of like

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was a little out there for me was when Key

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and saved Lydia at school, so she was attacked by

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someone that was set up by her bully because you know,

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Keian wasn't around, so they were like, oh no, we're

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going to try and stop you, and we're gonna knock

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you down a peg. So Keen ends up showing up

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and saving her, and then he ends up bringing her

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to his place. But the only thing is is that

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the elphit she's wearing when she's at school is not

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the same outfit that she's wearing when she gets to

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his place. In fact, I think it's an elfit that

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she was wearing in a different scene prior to the

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school scene, So you could definitely tell that those two

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scenes were shot on different days because the wardrobe did

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not match, or somehow the wardrobe got forgotten at what

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she was wearing in the scene before she was brought

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to Kean's place. But I just I noticed that, and

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I was like, wait a minute, one minute, she's in

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this outfit and the next she's in this and it's

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supposed to be the same day. So that kind of

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was one thing that I was just like, another suspend

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reality type moment for sure, And well I wrote it

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down in my note, I'm not going to really say

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too much, but I wasn't truly the biggest fan of

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the graphics for the writing or the car getting away seen.

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It was a little i won't say cheesy, but you

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could definitely tell that they were graphics and special effects

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put in. And I know it wasn't the best, but

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it was still pretty good for the vertical. And I

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care say too much because I know that there are

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some TV series that have done some graphics where you're

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just like, that wasn't the best, Maybe we could have

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done a little bit better. I know it's all based

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on budget size, I believe, and how much money you

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have to spend on graphics and special effects. I believe.

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I believe that's how that works, which is why movies

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tend to have better graphics and special effects because they

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have bigger budgets than TV shows. Sometimes cables have a

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bigger budget than network television, so they can do a

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little bit bit better graphics too. It all just comes

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down to money in the end, I think, to be honest,

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but for a vertical and for what they were doing,

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it was actually pretty well done. It wasn't the best

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in my opinion. I also know that I couldn't do

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any better. So there's that. Because special effects is not

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something that I've ever really been good at. I've tried it,

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I've dabbled at it, but never been really good. And

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the last thing that I have, and while it's not

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like a performance or a note on the series at all,

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it's just one thing I have when it comes to

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Evan in his roles is he has these gorgeous hair

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and I love getting to see it, and I was

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so upset when it was just like slicked back in

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this series. I was so glad when it wasn't slip

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back the whole time, because when it first was like that,

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I was like, please, please, don't be like this the

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whole time. Just let his hair flow, because he has

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such gorgeous hair, and sometimes that like slick back look

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for me just does not look good. And that's just

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from personal opinion, but I was just glad that it was.

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It's not for the full thing. And I know it's silly,

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it's very silly, but I don't know. It's just when

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men have long hair, it's just flowing. It just looks

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so gorgeous, and sometimes like the man bun is amazing

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as well, but it's just like that slicked back look

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for me, it just I don't know, it doesn't look good,

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but that's a personal preference. So overall, I really enjoyed

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the series. I thought it was fun, it was a mystery,

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It was kind of interesting, and it had its moments

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where you're like, wait, what's going to happen? How's this

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all going to work out? I mean, I definitely kind

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of clocked from the start that Kean wouldn't have been

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the one to kill Lydia's mom, but he's still gonna

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think that he did. And especially when the brother kind

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of told the story of how it all happened, I

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was like, Yeah, that's definitely not how it happened, and

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that's so suspicious. And of course it turned out to

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be right that it wasn't the truth, but it was

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just kind of a cute story. It was also something

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that I kind of didn't envision when I was watching

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the trailer and reading the synopsis word because the way

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I kind of visioned it was that Kean was in

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his family business and that his family was in the mafia,

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and he was just kind of continuing that going forward.

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So to watch it and see it be something a

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little bit completely different. It's always interesting and fun for

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me because the way I envision it, or at least

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the story and the plot based on the trailer and

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the synopsis, is always one thing, and I think it's

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going to go one way and how it's all going

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to happen, only for it to be a completely different

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story and a completely different plot than what my brain

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has made up. And I love when that happens because

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you always kind of see things one way, and if

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it goes that way, yeah, it's enjoyable and you can

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watch it. But to have it be completely different and

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you sit there and go, wait, that's not how I

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thought it was going to go. It makes things a

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little bit more intriguing and more fun and likable, and

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it's just a bit more suspenseful in a way. So

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I was kind of happy to know that how I

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envisioned it is not how it all went down. I

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really did enjoy the story. I love how it ended

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and how they got to be together. They were able

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to find out the truth and put the real killer

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of Lydia's mother behind bars, and Keian was found to

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not be the one to kill her mother, so it

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was a nice little wrap up in the end, and

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it also helped to the ending prove that Kean wasn't

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the bad seed. Everything that he was shown to be,

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especially to his father, was not who he actually was,

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so it was really nice to see that as well.

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But this has been a wild ride with the dangerous

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Kian my wading on this, as I have mentioned, going

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at character at mesia, writing plot, piecing, intrigue and ligability

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or all the subnotes, it comes down to a seven

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point five out of ten or a rating, And I mean,

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I would still totally recommend this because it was cute NLUs.

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I love Evan, I love his work. I've seen many

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of his series and I'm always happy to watch a

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new one when he's in it. I know he has

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a bunch of interactive ones on Real Short and I've

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always kind of watched those when I can. But I

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said this was a wild ride with Dangerous Ken. It's

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on Drama Box. I would love to hear your thoughts

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on it as well, and what you might have liked

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about the series, if there was anything you kind of

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noticed but maybe someone else didn't and it was something

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you didn't like, or maybe question love to hear your thoughts,

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so let me know. This has been my vertical obsession.

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I'm your host, Megan, until next time.