Feb. 22, 2026

1.17 DramaPops - Love in Oblivion

1.17 DramaPops - Love in Oblivion
In this episode, Megan discusses the thrilling series 'Love in Oblivion,' exploring its complex characters, suspenseful plot, and the themes of trust and memory manipulation. She delves into the dynamics between the main characters, Emily, James, and Michael, and how their interactions create a gripping narrative filled with twists and emotional depth. Megan shares her insights on the performances, editing, and overall impact of the series, concluding with her personal rating and hopes for future similar stories.
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Welcome to my vertical obsession. I'm your host, Megan, and

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today we are talking about Love in Oblivion, which is

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currently on Trauma Pops. This stars which I tried my

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best to make sure I got pronunciations right, so I

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apologize if I do say any names wrong. It stars

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Tanya Slova as Emily, Mark Schotner as James, Eugene Lisinski

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as Michael, and Valeria Forkin as Sarah. Hopefully I did

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good with pronunciations. I am sorry if I said anything wrong.

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I really I tried my bus So the synopsis for

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this is Emily woke up married to a man she

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couldn't remember, while fragments of blood, betrayal, and forbidden desire

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haunted her mind. After losing her memory, she raises to

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uncover what really happened the night she fell. And I

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was like, really intrigued by this one, so I tried

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my best to dive into it because it just was

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so good and the trailer I saw versus what actually

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played out in the series is very interesting and it's like,

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I do have that kind of written down. So the

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overview I had on this was that the series was

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a bit of a thriller and a mystery. When the

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series started, it seemed as if James the husband might

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have hurt his wife Emily with her inner voice unsure,

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you were left wondering is he good or is he

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bat As the series goes on, you get more of

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a sence that maybe it was him who hurt Emily.

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When she suggests to go to a hypnotist, it's almost

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like he doesn't want her to go out of fear

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she will remember what he did. That Doctor Michael is

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there to help, but something feels off when he told

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Emily to look in the mirror and she saw herself

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in the red hair and a red dress, which is

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what she saw on the stairs that made her want

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to do hypnosis. The more Emily remembers and learns, the

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more James looks like the villain. Only Emily's intuition is

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telling her a different story. Her feelings tell her James

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is good and Michael might not be. As she works

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to continue to uncover the truth, she learns that there

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is a real reason trusting your feelings is a good thing,

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because sometimes our memory lies your heart will guide you

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the right way when your head deceives you. And I

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kind of kind of liked that. That was a little

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bit of a message too, is that even though her

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mind was showing her all these things, mostly because of

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it was being put in her mind, but when her

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mind was showing her all these things, it was her

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heart and her intuition that was telling her that maybe

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this isn't truth, that maybe there is something different, something

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else is going on. So she kept digging into it

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because she wanted to know what the truth was and

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whether or not she could trust her husband or Michael,

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or her own memories. And as I said that the

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trailer between this or at least I wouldn't say trailer,

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because it wasn't really a trailer that I saw. It

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was more like clips from ads for this series. And

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when I first saw those clips, I really kind of

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thought that this was a ghost store and that maybe

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it was like a ghost that had hurt her. And

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that's why it was kind of like, wait, what happened?

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Because that's the kind of imaging that I was seeing

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in these clips, because it was her seeing something on

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the top of the stairs. It was just like a

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woman in a red dress and You're like, she wasn't

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there before and now she is, So it was kind

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of like she's supposed to be a ghost that was

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like haunting the house. And of course as I watched

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the series, it made more sense. It was more of

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a memory for what happened when she fell. But it's

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just the way it looked in the clips that I

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first saw. That's kind of what I was like. I

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was like, Ooh, this is kind of like a ghost story.

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Maybe this will be fun mysterious, and it really made

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me dive into the series, which I absolutely love because

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it was very different and really had you guess it

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who was good and who was bad. So, like I said,

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kind of gave me the sense of like a ghost story.

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So it was kind of giving you this idea of oh,

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the husband was the one hurting the wife, but it

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was actually really an evil spirit doing it. And I

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know that wasn't the case afterwards, but I saw that

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and I was like, oh, this would actually kind of

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be good for a series. It'd be more of like

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rror type series, but I think it might be kind

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of a good idea for I said, for this one,

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it did have suspense and the unknown of what what

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would happen. You watched it wondering whether or not James

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was the villain or if it was Michael the hypnotist.

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It really kind of had you guessing and trying to

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figure out what the truth was and what might have

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been a lie. And I know I was second guessing

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things from time to time, going like, wait, this seems off,

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but no, is that true. It's like I know, I

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really kind of was questioning each new episode, going like wait,

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I thought no, wait. It was a very good series

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and it made you really kind of second guess everything

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you thought you knew, kind of like Emily's character trying

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to piece it all together. You kind of followed along

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with her a little bit more, going like, Okay, is

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he really bad or is it him? Like what which

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one is the one that I can actually really trust?

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And I know when it came to the character of James,

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Mark's performance was really well done because you really couldn't

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tell if he was the good guy. You wanted him

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to be a good guy, but he really kind of

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gave that sense of questioning whether or not you should

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trust him or hate him. And I really loved that

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he was able to give that performance of he was

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good one minute, but then he does something that makes

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you go, wait, can I trust him, plus the fact

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that he was very against her doing certain things and

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wanting to keep her at home, and it all makes

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sense at the end as to why he was very

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much like that, but it gave off the good performance

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of is he trustworthy or is he not? And I

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really love that because I did, like I said, I

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was second guess again and I was questioning whether or

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not he was good saying with Michael, but I think

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I fell more towards the I don't really trust Michael

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so much, whereas James's character, I went back and forth

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and being like, can I trust him? I want to,

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but he's just he's not giving me trusting vibes. And

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I had also mentioned how he had you questioning if

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his sweetness was all just an or if it actually

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was the truth, And along with his performance and all

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the things that he kind of did day to day

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with Emily, it kind of made the memory she had

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a little bit more believable and made you think that, yes,

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they are real memory she's having, that maybe this is

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what really happened. Or it also kind of helps sell

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the memories as to what they could have been. And

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it definitely all kind of started to crack as Michael

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grew closer to Emily, because he gave the sense of

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he wanted to help, but also was kind of crossing

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that line a little bit, and it made you kind

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of see that maybe he's not who he's saying he is,

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and maybe there's more to this story for him. So

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it's kind of like unsure for him, and of course

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he starts to make a move, and when he kisses her,

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you start to question if he's manipulating her, especially manipulating

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her when she's under hypnosis. It's like, is he kind

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of planting these memories? Is he trying to show her

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that it's her husband that's the villain, And especially when

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James comes by one time and the two end up fighting,

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but Michael doesn't fight back. He kind of wants to

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prove to Emily that he is the bad guy, that

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he is violent, and that she shouldn't trust him, while

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also trying to get sympathy for himself as a way

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to get closer to Emily. And Michael believed he had

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the upper hand at one point, but he kind of

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lost that because the strong bond and love between Emily

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and James kept showing through, which kind of gave Emily

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the sense of there's definitely something wrong here, something that

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I'm not seeing, and I need to figure it out myself.

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I can't ask either of them because neither of them

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will be honest with me. And it gets to Emily

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refusing to accept the memories because she wants to trust

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her own intuitions and her own feelings, because she does

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feel like something is still law. And of course when

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she does that, she ends up finally getting to the

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true truth of what actually happened, and that was because

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she trusted her intuition, she trusted her love and her

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feelings for James, and the feelings of something wasn't quite

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right with Michael, that he was not the person he

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was trying to portray to be. So it was definitely

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a fun thriller type series and really had you gained

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it guessing back and forth. So as I was watching

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the series, one of the things that really stuck out

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to me was Michael and how he kind of felt

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off from the start. And I did sit there and

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question quite a bit. I went back and forth, going like,

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maybe he is good, maybe he's not. But also, when

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you first had the memory of James strangling her, something

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didn't feel right. It almost felt like we as an

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audience shouldn't trust it, that it wasn't truly a real memory.

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And I get that it was kind of easy to

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believe because of how James was acting and how he

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was being towards her. There might have been something that

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caused that, but it's just the more you saw it,

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the more we dug into it, it didn't seem like

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it really was him that was strangling her, or that

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she was the one he was strangling. It just did

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not feel right. But I did still kind of question

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if it was James who pushed her or if he

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really did hurt her. I just the whole strangling her

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part kind of felt off. And added to that too,

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is that fact that she had the red hair and

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the red dress kind of helped feel as if the

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memory wasn't real or that it was being planted, because

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when did she have red hair. She was a brunette

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or had black hair. It was very dark, so I

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don't know if it was fully black or very dark brunette,

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but I know it wasn't red, So it just kind

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of made it seem weird. If she was just simply

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the red dress, that might have been a little bit different,

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but I think because when she fell down the stairs

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and she saw the woman in the red dress with

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the red hair, he had to kind of account for

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the red hair. And the more these memories getting in detail,

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the more it seemed like Michael was putting them in

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her head. And while I didn't fully trust that James

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was completely innocent, I just knew that these memories were

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not the full picture. They were not what really happened,

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but there might have been some truth to it. It

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was just that Michael was manipulating it to put him

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in her head. And one of the things that kind

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of stemp all this was this character named Catherine's. She

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had died at a bar, and Michael had mentioned it

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to James as if he knew about it, and I

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was curious whether or not he was connected to her somehow.

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I originally figured it was because he had dated her

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or something, and there was a part of me that

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thought that maybe she was family, but I didn't fully

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go that route, which is what it turned out to be,

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is that she was family. But the whole death scenario,

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they made it seem like Jane's caused her death in

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the way started and of course, when they start doing that,

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it's like I automatically think that, Okay, it's going to

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turn out that it was an accident, but he's being

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blamed because he happened to be there or he was

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the one who caused it. But I knew it was

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going to end up being an accident and not really murder.

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And that's why when Emily found the file about the

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death and that James was put on leave, it did

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find he was cleared, but it was put in there

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in the series I feel as a red herring to

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kind of go with the whole James hurt Emily. If

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he could kill this person, then he is capable of

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hurting Emily. So it kind of worked in the favor

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of making James the bad guy in this whole thing.

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Like I said, when Michael mentioned it, I figured it

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was something personal, because how else would he have known

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about this. It was not really I think it was mentioned,

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It wasn't really on the news or anything like that,

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so it's like, how did he find out? But as

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I said, they turned out to be family. I just

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didn't expect them to be twins. That was an interesting

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little twist that this Catherine and Michael were twins, but

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it helped add a layer to Michael's character as to

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why he was trying to manipulate Emily and why he

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was trying to make James such a bad guy type

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of thing. So it was all of this was done

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out of revenge, which is normally what things like this

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tend to be. But yeah, it was all out of revenge.

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Michael was kissing Emily. It's like, why did he try

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and get close to her like that, and why do

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you try to kiss her? Because he had mentioned in

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the end that he was going to kill Emily and

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that he was going to spin it so that way

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it was James who killed her in a jealous rage,

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but he never really intended to fool around with her,

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made it seem it just made it seem like he

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was going to kill her and then he was going

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to hypnotize James or either hypnotize James and convince him

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to kill her in a jealous rage type of scenario.

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was kissing her unless he was just adding a new

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layer of the revenge because she came to him for support.

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something different, something to get back at James, or like

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figured maybe it was Michael's backup plan. Those are just

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kind of things that I was just I'm sure of,

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and I'd love the added tidbit of Michael having hypnotize

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Sarah to go after Emily, because as it turns out,

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it was Sarah who was someone working with James because

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he's a cop. She was an informant I believe, or

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someone he had saved and was kind of working with.

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James was in love with her, so she had to

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get rid of Emily to get her out of the way.

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as we got closer to the end, I kind of

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wondered if that was the case, that he was going

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to have her as a patient and that he had

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hipn tied her to which it ended up being. And

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in my brain, I was like, this is a nice

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added element just to show how evil he was, and

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that how thought out his plan of revenge was that

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he had brought in Sarah to kind of take out Emily,

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and granted Sarah was supposed to take out Emily altogether

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and that he was not going to have his hands dirty,

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but when he found out Emily survived, he was able

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to kind of fix and change his plan to continue

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to execute it, which shows how say smart he is

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and again how evil and manipulated he was because he

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was determined to get revenge on James. All his manipulation

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was basically so everyone else did the dirty work for

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him in hopes that it wouldn't come back to him,

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that he wouldn't get in trouble for it. His only

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mistake was that he taped his sessions, so that kind

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of showed what his plan was put in motion, what

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party had in it. And I get doctors who do

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hypnosis do tape their sessions, but I think that was

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the one downfall for him was definitely the fact that

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he taped the sessions. I put in a note that

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he is a true psychopath with using his profession to

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kill people. As I can wrap up my little overview here,

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this one definitely had me on the edge of my

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seat wondering what was going to happen next. The editing

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of it all was really good and it really sold

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the story, so you didn't know who could be trusted

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or who should be trusted. It really gave the view

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of suspense and mystery, and I really love that. And

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that is like a little tidbit too that I love

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is that not only the acting was great to make

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you question everything, but the way it was filmed and

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edited to help sell the whole mystery and questioning what's real,

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what's not, who do we trust, who do we not

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type story, and I really loved that added element to

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the whole thing, and it really is what made this

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series so good and made me not want it to end.

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It was also one of those things that just when

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you thought you might have figured it out, something changes

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to make you question the truth. It's almost like it

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gave you the sense that you were trying to figuring

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it out along with Emily, that you were trying to

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piece everything together the same as she was. And yes,

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you could pick up on clues that might have showed

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you what was truly happening, but they did a good

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job of not making it so obvious. And it was

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really good mystery and a really good story for sure.

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I fully enjoyed this and I have been dying to

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kind of talk about it a little bit, so I

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continue just say I do a reading of everything, and

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for this one, I did a reading of eight out

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of ten because again, this one was really good. I

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really felt the characters. It really kind of made you

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dive deep into the story, what was happening, the writing,

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the plot, the pacing. It was intriguing story and I

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really really enjoyed it and I would definitely watch it again,

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highly recommend it. It was very well done. And I

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do know that that is one thing you see with

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the Ukrainian actors is when they have their series, whether

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it's on Drama Box, my drama, I think the other

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one is a short drama. I think that's the other one.

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They're the stories and the series that they produce and

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the actors are in are usually like really good. They're intense,

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they're fun and you can really kind of disappear into them.

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So I know those are some of my favorite ones

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is with the Ukrainian actors. So it's always fun when

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one of those shows up on real short or drama box.

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Even now on Drama Pops there's a couple of them,

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and I feel some some of those actors don't get

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enough love, and they should because I really enjoy them

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and I would love to see more series for them

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like this one was again really good, so I hope

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that means that we'll get to see a lot more,

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especially of these type of stories like this. One was

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a good mystery, It was different, it was very well done,

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and I just I got lost in it and I

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loved it. I love when you can do that with

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the series, So I do look forward to more series

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like these, but as always, love to hear your thoughts

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on the series, what you might have liked disliked. Also,

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