April 14, 2026

1.25 DramaPops - Bad Boys Tutor

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Unlock the Secrets Behind Teenage Turmoil: The Hidden Struggles of a Campus Bad Boy and a Bullying Survivor

Imagine a series that dives deep into the raw realities of high school—where the "bad boy" persona masks a young man battling his own demons, and an innocent girl fights to survive relentless bullying. In this compelling episode, Megan unpacks Bad Boys Tutor on Drama Pops, revealing how one seemingly typical teen drama exposes crucial issues like mental health, peer pressure, and the power of authentic connection.

Liam is under enormous stress—left by his father, overwhelmed by parental and school expectations, and secretly battling an alcohol problem. Megan breaks down how his drinking isn't merely a rebellious phase but a symptom of deeper trauma, amplified by the relentless pressure from school authorities and his community.

Meanwhile, Amelia, the heroine, faces near-constant harassment from classmates, pushing the series into stark territory about school bullying and systemic neglect. Megan highlights the series’ gritty portrayal of how silence and inaction enable ongoing abuse and what it takes for students to finally find their voice.

You'll discover:

How Liam’s drinking spirals from a coping mechanism linked to family abandonment and academic pressure.
The nuanced relationship arc that transforms a fake romance into genuine love, with layered performances from Tess and Ben.
The shocking truth behind Candace’s lies and the series’ fierce critique of school complicity in bullying.
The emotional power of that pivotal poem scene—an intimate moment that symbolizes hope, vulnerability, and breakthrough.
Why this series isn’t just teen drama—it's a mirror to real struggles yours or someone you know might face.

This episode isn’t just a review—it’s an invitation to reflect on the unseen battles within our schools and the importance of empathy and awareness. Megan’s expert analysis reveals how Bad Boys Tutor challenges viewers to confront uncomfortable truths, inspiring change and compassion.

Perfect for fans of teen dramas that tackle real issues, educators, and anyone who believes schools should do more to protect vulnerable students. Don’t miss this eye-opening discussion—your perspective on youth, resilience, and redemption may never be the same.

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Welcome to my vertical obsession. I'm your host, Megan, and

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today we are talking about bad boys tutor on Drama

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Ops The Stars test diner Stepning also credited on this

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as Tests Amelia as Amelia, ben Armstrong as Liam, jac

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Ann as Candace, Danny Barber as Principal, Richard Jordan Dick

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as Jason. I hope I said that correctly, do my

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best to make sure name for pronunciations are correct. You

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do fail. So the synopsis for this one, which I

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actually had two different ones but they're very similar, is

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their deal with simple She'd tutor him to pass, he'd

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fake dator to make her crush jealous. But between the

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late night study session and the jealous exes, pretending stops

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feeling fake. And the other one that I had was

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she tutors the campus bad boy in exchange for him

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fake dating her to make someone jealous. As they navigate

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study sessions and jealous xes, their pretend romance begins. So

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we'll jump right into kind of the overview of the series.

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It goes Liam is in need of tutoring to help

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get his grades up and not get kicked off the

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football team. When Ronda I wrote the nerd, but I

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know she kind of self claims herself as a nerd,

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and I say it every once in a while, so

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it's the only reason why I kind of wrote it down.

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But when Ronda won't help him, he turns to new

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girl Amelia. He makes a deal with her in which

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she tutors him he'll fake date her, which in turn

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will make her crush Jason more interested in her. Well,

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she doesn't agree to it at first, she eventually agrees.

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This makes his ex Kansas jealous, so she ends up

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targeting Amelia, singling her out for the year's school wide bullying.

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Liam tells Amelia he will make sure she isn't targeted.

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The more Liam and Amelia are together, the more it

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pisses off Candace, so she ends up telling Liam she

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is pregnant with his child. Liam ends up walking away

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from Amelia to be there for Candace and the baby,

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but it leaves Amelia vulnerable to the bully. When Liam

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sees Amelia after she's attacked and had her head dunked

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in a toilet, she slaps Liam. He ends up spiraling

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and getting into trouble with the cops and school, and

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when he's talking to the principal. Amelia happens to overhear

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ends up sticking up for Liam, but still not fully

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forgiving him yet. She ends up going to Jason and

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asking him out. Liam gets jealous and the two get

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into a fight. The night of the date, Jason tries

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to push Amelia too far, but Liam jumps in and

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saves her. The two end up leaving together and almost

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spending the night together. Liam knows it wouldn't be right

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and leaves, but promises it will happen. The next day,

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Liam tells Candace he can't be with her, but he

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will be there for the baby, and that he is

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in love with Amelia. Candace, not happy, talks to her

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friends to try and figure out a way to bring

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Amelia down and get her out of the school, not

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realizing that Amelia, not realizing that Amelia was in the bathroom,

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overheard and found that Candace wasn't pregnant. Amelia runs and

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they chaser into the hall, where Liam ends up protecting

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Amelia and finding out that Candace had been lying to

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them the whole time. Liam and Amelia leave the school

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and Candace gets caught with drugs. The next day, we

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end up finding out that when Liam and Amelia left

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the school, they had gone and had sex and finally

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admitted their love for each other. And in the end

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we are brought to the Spring Fling where Candace, with

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the help of Jason, tries to bring down Liam, but

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is caught by Amelia, then caught by the principal, and

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this ends up leaving Liam and Amelia to finally be together.

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So that's just a little overview and recap of the series.

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So now jumping in to some of the talking points.

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I had had a couple. One of the biggest ones

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was about Liam and his drinking, and I really kind

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of got into that one because I really wanted to

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talk about that. So about Liam and his drinking, I

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had said that Liam had an alcohol problem. You could

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see him drinking in class, when he was alone at home,

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at a party, at a bar, and just in school

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in general. And it is mentioned by Amelia because she

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is worried and she cares about him. And I had

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made mention that I wasn't sure if it was something

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that he's always done or if it was something newer,

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and I kind of figured it was more on the

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newer side of him with his drinking. I didn't think

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it was something he had done prior to all that

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was going on in his life. Felt like, kind of

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what was going on in his life is what kind

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of triggered this, And that's what I based this on,

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and that's how I said it was that if it

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is something new, that would make sense, as he had

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a lot of stress going on in his life and

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he felt it was the only way to cope. His

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mom is in the hospital, his dad left, and the

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principal is putting way too much pressure on him, telling him,

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not once, but twice how the town was relying on him.

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Like in the beginning when he first told him he's

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to get his grades up, he told the principle told

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him that the entire town was relying on him to win.

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And then the second time was when he got in

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trouble with the cops in the school for drinking on

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school property. The principal had said how the town was

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counting on him to win and putting way too much

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pressure on this young kid, making him believe that he

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was the only hope for this town to win this game.

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It's like, that's a lot of pressure for one kid.

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I'd said, that's a lot of pressure to put on

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one person, not to mention he's putting pressure on himself

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to graduate and go to college for his mom. And

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while he can't help her, he can at least do

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the one thing she'd want to see, and that is

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for him to do well in school, graduate and go

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to college. And he makes mentions of that that his

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mom wanted to see him go to college, so that

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was the one thing that he was determined to do. Then,

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when things are going good with Amelia, his ex Candice

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has to go and tell him she's pregnant. Now that

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adds a whole new level of stress and pressure on him.

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Now he wants to make sure he's there to support

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his child, but also has to figure out how this

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will all work at school, college being up, and he's

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probably worrying that everything he's been working towards might come

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crashing down. He would do anything to make sure that

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he's not going to turn out like his dad. He

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doesn't want to abandon his child. That leaves him with

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coping with this all himself, and he turns to drinking,

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the one thing in his life he can control. As

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I had mentioned, like did end up getting him in

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some trouble with the cops in the school and with

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his life so out of control, he needed the one

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thing he could control. It wasn't good for him, and

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Amelia noticed. She tried to reach out to him. She

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tried to do it in a way that wouldn't cause

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him to feel like he was being cornered, because sometimes

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that is something that people feel. If you're coming at

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someone with something you feel as an issue and you're

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coming at them too strong, they could feel like they're

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cornered and be defensive and fight back or just kind

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of get mad at you. So she was doing it

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in a way that would to try and help and

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not make things worse, because she does care about him.

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But of course, when Candice saw this moment of Amelia

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and Liam, she had to go and mess it up.

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So Liam ends up pushing Amelia away. And one of

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the other things I had said is that I think

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seeing Amelia being bullied and mad and upset he wasn't

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around to help like he promised made him spiral into

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a Derek place or maybe more of a rock bottom.

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But then Amelia standing up for him to the principle

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showed him people do care. No one has ever really

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done that for him. He was fighting with this all

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on his own, and then to see her ignore him

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and kiss Jason triggered something in him. And then finding

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out Candace was lying to him about the baby, it

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really kind of opened his eyes. It gave him a

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clarity of what he was doing and how it was

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affecting those around him that he cared about. And this

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leads him to stop drinking, which at the Spring Fling,

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Amelia mentions how he is drinking water instead of vodka.

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You can see that he is trying to do better

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and that he is quitting, and he mentions that he

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is quit drinking, and at the Spring Telling, when he

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reads his poem to everyone, it's about Amelia and how

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much he loves her. She was the one person who

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saw him more than just the star athlete or the

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bad boy everyone saw. She saw his kindness, his strength,

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his determination, his desire to do well by his mom,

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the struggles he's faced but didn't tell anyone. She saw

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who he could be. She saw him and he wanted

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to be that person she saw. He wanted to do

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and be better. And then I ended it with Amelia

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was the light in Liam's darkness. So she was the

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one person who was able to kind of get through

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to him and show him how this was bad and

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that there are other ways that you can reach out

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to people that their people do care about you. So

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I kind of saw that in their relationship and why

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I felt like Amilia was the light in Liam's darkness,

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and I did mention this in my thoughts, but I

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did kind of think at first they were just kind

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of going to gloss over his drinking, but they made

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it a bit more of a prominent thing, so I

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was kind of glad that they did. And it just

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wasn't something in the background that wasn't so worrisome, because

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it with all that was going on in Liam's life,

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it was worrisome. So I loved that it was an

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actual plot in the series and not just throw away

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something that is ignored. So I was glad about that.

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And then the next thing I had to talk about

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was the school and the bullying. So one of the

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whole plots of the series is Amelia being bullied by

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just about the entire school. Even though it's kind of

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like run by Amelia and her friend even though it's

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kind of run by Candice and her friends, it still

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got the whole school involved, So it's like it was

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something that I was like, I need to kind of

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mention a little bit about this. So what I had

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said was, it's mentioned when Amelia asked Liam about the

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red card that it's something done every year. They picked

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someone to single out and bully. Almost made it seem

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like to get those they think are not as good

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as them, so basically bully them until they can't take

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it anymore and leave school. When it came to Amelia,

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it looked like the whole school joined in. So if

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the whole school is involved, this makes me wonder does

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the school know this is happening they do, why are

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they not doing anything to stop it? Is it because

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the students flash money or threaten to take money away

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and it makes them look away, because I know that's

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in some of the series where certain students are like, well,

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my dad pays for all your bills and this wing

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and if I tell them to take away the money,

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then you can't do anything and you have to figure

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things out on your own. So I don't that's kind

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of a plot. So that's why I was like, oh, well,

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maybe that's the scenario here, is that Candice and some

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of our friends are just like, oh, well, I'll tell

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my dad to stop donating to the school, so that

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way it makes them go, okay, well we see nothing,

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nothing's happening. That's the kind of thought that I had

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in my head when I wrote that, and then I

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said that looking away it just makes them complicit in

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the abuse of a student. While it's not a stretch

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to believe a school would look away to things going

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on when it comes to money involved, it's just crazy

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to think how long this might have been going on.

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Was it passed down from class to class, because again

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it's mentioned that it happens every year, so it's like,

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how long has this actually been going on at the school?

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to knowh it. I mean, after all, they attacked her

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with water balloons and water guns in the middle of

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the cafeteria. It's like, how was that not seen? They

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chased her down the hall until she hid in a bathroom,

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and it was basically like a good amount of the students,

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if not all of them, So I'm like, how is

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no teacher seeing all this? Happening, and I pointed out

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how that if it was real life, I'm sure there

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would be lawsuits and mass firings that would come. The

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staff didn't do a good job protecting the students because again,

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the way they made it seem is that they bully

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a new student or a student they don't like to

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the point where they leave, And that's what they were

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trying to do with Amelia is get it so that

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way she'd want to leave the school. And I'm like,

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doesn't the school kind of question why these kids are

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leaving each year? And I said, how the only good

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thing is that the principal found the drugs after seeing

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what happen in the hall. So Candice, with bullying Amelia

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and lie to Liam, got her punishment in the end.

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spring playing, but again she was caught, and she did

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mention that she did get arrested and that if she

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was caught at school property again she'd get arrested. So

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she did get her punishment in the end. But again

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it's like, how was in no teacher knowing about this

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or saying anything about this. So it was just one

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of those things where it was just like, this seems

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crazy to the level that they were bullying Amelia and

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it was going unnoticed kind of crazy. And I get

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that it's just just like a simple plot and we're

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supposed to kind of like look past it, but my

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brain was just like going, I feel like there should

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have been more notice to this. One of the other

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things I had me mentioned of was Liam's black eye

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kind of came and went, which was fun to watch.

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and movies too, So it's say, it's kind of like

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a continuity issue that happens from time to time, especially

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if you're filming out of order. It can get forgotten

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about or things get mixed up. I would say, I

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feel like, but I know it happens. And also one

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thing my parents and I sometimes point out when we're

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watching the Chicago series, if one of the characters gets

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like hurt and then the next episode they're like totally

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fine and there's no evidence, it's like, wow, they heal fast.

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that from time to time, it's a thing that happens everywhere.

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But I just happened to notice this because at one

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point of how bad this eye looked, and then the

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next scene, which was supposed to be the next day,

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it suddenly healed in better. So it was just like,

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that's fun. So this is what I had I had said,

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is that it's interesting how his black eye came and went.

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It healed real fast. He was punched by Jason in school,

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and then the next day it's shown with this big

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bruise because he had the glasses on in school and

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he was told to take him off. Then you see

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the big bruise that same day at night when they're

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at the bar for the two dates, him with Candace

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Amelia with Jason, the eye actually looks a lot worse

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than during the day. I slightly noticed, but he still

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got the black eye. And when he saves Amelia and

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they go back to her place, it's still there. And then,

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like I said, the next day when he's with Candace

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and going forward until the end of the series, there's

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no black eye, and it's completely healed, and it doesn't

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look like they're trying to make it. It seem like

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it was healing and lessening. It just completely healed overnight.

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So it was just like nice. But again, I know

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sometimes that can happen. Continuity kind of gets messed up

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sometimes also depending on timing, it can make it seem

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like it's better, almost like it if we're supposed to

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believe that it's it's been a little bit versus the

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next day, then I can I can see that that

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this one just happens to be for this series. We

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know it was the next day because Candice makes mention

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going were you with her last night? Where did you

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go with her last night? So it is supposed to

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be the next day. But it was just a simple

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little error I noticed, and it doesn't take away from

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the plot at all. It was just a little thing

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that I found funny, going like, oh, look, his black

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eye is totally better. It's gone. That healed fast. And

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then the last thing I had said or wanted to

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talk about was the scene before the spring Flame, which

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was when Amelia reads her poem. So that whole clip

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of when Amelia reads the poem, and I had said

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that the poem Amelia wrote is read as the two

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are having sex for the first time. It's a sweet

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way to show the characters expressing their love two different ways,

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or as a dual expression of love. It's more than

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a love scene or a poem. It's a visual representation

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of all they mean to each other, shows how all

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the battles they have face led to this moment. The

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way the two scenes were shot and woven together really

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helps tell this dual expression of love. It helped make

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it a bigger moment than just a love scene or

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a sex scene, and the editing made it into a

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perfectly crafted scene. I loved how the two scenes were

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put together. The lens flares and the sunlight was a

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great edit or filming technique the scene to add to

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the magic of the two moments. There was so much

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done in this clip, but it was done so beautifully.

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It was just such a great visual moment the way

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they had edited all together, because it was not only

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the scene in the classroom of her reading the poem,

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but also them having sex and making love for the

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first time together. So it was really well done in

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my opinion of how they put that all together and

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how they kind of had the voice over to of

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Amelia reading her poem. It just scenes like that make

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me so happy and so excited because I love seeing that,

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especially from like an editing and production standpoint. Just the

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way it all comes together. It was just so beautifully

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done and I loved every minute of it. It was

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just so lovely and great and a perfect way to

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give them this happy ending before the final couple of episodes,

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because to be honest with you, I felt like if

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they had ended it on that clip and didn't even

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have like the spring Fling at all, that would have

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been a perfect ending too, just a really happy note

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for the two of them. They got their happy ending

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and things are going great, and I think that could

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have been a perfect end to the series if they

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didn't have the spring Fling clip. So it was kind

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of one of those moments that if they had chosen,

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it would have been a great way to end the series.

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But I just loved every minute of it. It was

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just one clip too, or one episode for the series.

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It's like, I know they are episodes, how they're broken

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up on each app but sometimes my brain has a

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hard time talking about them as individual episodes because I

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still see it as just one whole series. But this

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particular moment was just all in one episode, and I

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loved that it was just all put to one episode.

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It wasn't spanned over a couple episodes. It's just simply

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one episode and it was just timed, editing. Everything was

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just perfect about it, and I loved it. So that

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was the last thing that I had in my notes

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or talking points about things in the series. Going on

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to next are just kind of my overall thoughts of

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the whole series. I had said for this one is

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that I loved getting to watch Tests and Ben work

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together on this. I thought they had such good chemistry

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and really played off each other very well. So also,

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when Drama Pops dropped another one with them, it gets

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called High School Diary, I was so excited to see

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that one, and I hope to do an episode on

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that one too, hopefully in the near future. But continuing

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on for this one, he said, I loved watching both

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Tests and Ben's series. I think Ben is a phenomenal actor.

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He really gets into his role and does a great

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job of making each character layered. It's also a treat

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to watch his series because you know you're going to

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get such an amazing performance. Brings such a captivating performance

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to each role she plays. She also brings such emotion

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to each character it pulls you in. Pairing the two

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made the series that much better for me. One of

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the things that I loved most about the series is

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that didn't shy away from hard topics like Liam's drinking

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or father's abandoning their kids, because that was two points

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both for Liam and for Amelia. Liam's father left after

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his mother got put in the hospital, whereas Amelia her

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father abandoned her, kept trying to make contact but would

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never show up, so the two of them both had

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the issue of their father abandoning them. I also love

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how that kind of gave them a little bit of

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