Oct. 15, 2025

1.3 ReelShort - I Flash-Married My Best Friend?!

1.3 ReelShort - I Flash-Married My Best Friend?!
In this episode, Meg reviews the romantic comedy series 'I Flash-Married My Best Friend!,' exploring its themes of friendship, love, and unexpected twists. She discusses the dynamics between the characters, the plot's progression, and the production elements that contribute to the storytelling. Meg shares her thoughts on the friends-to-lovers trope, character development, and the satisfying resolution of the story, ultimately giving it a high rating and recommending it to viewers.
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Welcome to my vertical of session. Today we are talking

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about I flash married my best friend on Real Short

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and I've been slightly waiting to watch this since it

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came out. I just had to wait a little bit

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before I could get the subscription to the app, so

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it took me a little bit longer, but I would

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have done this a lot sooner. And for this one,

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the one thing that I really loved about this one

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is that it was just like this cute little love

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story of friends becoming more and then finally, you know,

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falling for each other. And I always do love those stories.

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I've always been kind of a fan of those stories.

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And I know sometimes I like enemies to lovers a

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bit more because the tension is always so much more

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fun to watch. Plus you always sit there like seeing

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these two fight and then you just want to go, okay,

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now just kiss, you know, you just want to kiss.

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So like that energy of two people hating each other,

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all this pent up emotion, and it's always fun to watch.

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And I know that that's the case with one of

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the ones that just dropped on Candy Jar. That gave

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me that little fix. So we'll have to talk about

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that one a little bit. But here we are talking

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about Flash married my best friend, and we have characters

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Chloe Pascal and Matteo Lane who goes by Mattie to Chloe,

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which threw me off a couple of times because she

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would always call him Maddie and then call him Matteo,

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and my brain was just not always connecting the two

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because I'm so used to matt or Mattie being the

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nickname for Matthew and probably heard it for Mateo too,

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but I've heard it more for Matthew, so I always

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kept going, wait, no, his name's not Matthew, it's Matteo.

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It was just one of those things that just kind

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of threw me off a little bit, and I know

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that really has nothing to do with the series. Sometimes

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these names throw me through a loop every so often.

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So one of the things that I've love about Real

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Short Now is that they put the actors and the

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character names at the end of their series. And I'm

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very grateful because there are times where I'll see a

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series and I'll be like, who is that. It's like,

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I know I've seen them, and I know they've been

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in other things that I really like, but I don't

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know their names. It's nice that they've started doing that,

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so I'm really appreciative to that. And I know it's

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mostly only Real Short that I see it on. I

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think kind of seen it on Drama Box or Good Short.

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I think they've done a couple too, but I'm not

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one hundred percent short, but I know it's definitely Real

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Short that does it on theirs. Sorry, I went on

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this whole tangent about names and then kind of lost

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my train of thought. Okay, we're going back. So yeah,

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so going back to the actual show and the actual series,

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And like I said, this was one of those friends

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to lovers situation, especially with the character of Matteo slash

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Maddie being in love with Chloe since they first ran

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into each other in college and him wanting to be

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more than friends with her, but she never seeing him

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as more than a friend. And like I said, I

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love these storylines because you can tell that it's one

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of those things where they will get together and they

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will figure out what they want, but it's going to

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take some time to get there, which is why I

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think they don't always do these kind of storylines from movies,

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because I don't think these type of slow burns work

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as well, or it might just not be the movies

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that I'm watching. I know, I'm not saying that it

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doesn't work as well. I just sometimes certain movies producers

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and directors and streaming services and they like the stories

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that really draw people in and give more drama, and

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sometimes these slow burn best friends don't always do that.

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And sometimes it's just a nice little romantic story that

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you just need. So it's happy that this was the

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type of story that it was because I think when

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I watched the trailer, because the trailers always tend to

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be a lot different than the actual series, and that

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also tends to be the case for movies and TV

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shows too, which is it a constant annoyance sometimes, But

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that's another thing that can be a talk I have

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on my TV podcast because and I know that it's

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been mentioned I think from like editors, TV people before

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that the difference in the description shitay is always not

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fun because people get mad at that. You know, when

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it comes to movies, you know, you see a trailer,

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you see all these great shots, but then sometimes there

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are things in the trailer that aren't in the movie,

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or for a TV show, they want something more dramatic

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and to pull people in. Sometimes they'll add things or

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they'll change things, and I've seen that quite a bit.

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I want to say Chicago Fire the most. I noticed

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that with Chicago Fire the most is that they'll kind

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of put in there. Chicago p D has been known

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to do it too well. They'll add little things and

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then when you watch the show, it's like that where

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that there was something in the trailer that never happened

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in the actual episode. It's basically to draw you in,

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make you want to watch. And I know with certain

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shows and movies it's sometimes someone completely different doing the

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trailer than editing the movie and the show, I think,

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and I think that's where the disconnect tends to happen.

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I don't know if that's changed, but I know that

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that was one of the disconnect things. But again I'm

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getting off topic, so going back, going back, I'm sorry,

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going back. Like I said, the trailer was a little

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bit different than what the actual series was. And again,

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this kind of happens because it's also one of those

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things that when I watch the trailer, how I envision

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things going are not always how it plays out. And

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I think that's more my mind doing that because I

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think when I watched the trailer, which I may have

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to watch it again just to refresh my memory, because

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I know I watched the trailer back before the series

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actually dropped, or maybe it was when the series just dropped,

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before I could actually watch the whole series. The way

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I envisioned it, or how I thought the trailer was saying,

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is that Chloe and Matteo, best friends forever, ended up

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getting drunk and then getting married accidentally, and now they

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have to kind of figure out marriage together. That's how

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I kind of saw this, which is not how it

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went at all. It was she found out her boyfriend. No, no, no,

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that's how it usually starts out. This time, she did

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not find out her boyfriend was cheating, even though Matteo

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saw the boyfriend being a jerk and hitting on another woman.

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But it was the boyfriend who broke up with her,

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because normally, again how it starts in series like these

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is the girlfriend sees the boyfriend cheating and then breaks up,

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is very sad, and then someone comes along to help

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them cheer up in a sense, so either they end up,

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you know, one night stand with this stranger, or this

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stranger ends up being like, hey, let's get married. You

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can help me type a deal and we can help

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each other. So that's kind of how some of these starts,

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but that's not how this one started. This one started,

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I said, with Chloe's boyfriend his name is Tom, breaking

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up with her, and then Matteo coming to the rescue

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to help ease her broken heart, but first by trying

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to get Chloe and Tom to make up be friends,

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and of course Chloe's like, what are you doing? And

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even I sat there going like he just watched him

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slap someone else's ass and then break up with her,

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and you're over here being like, yeah, make up, you know,

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hug be happy. And then after when they're hugging, he

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rips into Tom pretending like Chloe's his wife, yelling at

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him in front of everyone, and was like, oh, okay,

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I see what he's doing now, Oh okay, nice one.

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He that one eight was so great. I loved it

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so much. He also was a bit confused at how

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this whole thing happened in front of people, but they

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also didn't see the oh, let's make up, be happy

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and the hug before the whole you're touching my wife

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portion of that but I still loved it. It was

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it was so great and such an amazing moment for

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him to do it was it was a swoon wothy,

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swoon worthy moment for sure. For Mateo to do that

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for Chloe and to stick it to Tom and be like,

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go away, you're an asshole definitely made me fall in

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love with Matteo right there. And the other thing that

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kind of made me question, which I know I really

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shouldn't because this is how these series work, but it

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was definitely one thing that I was very confused how

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that worked. Whereas in other series, like other series about billionaires,

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it kind of makes a little bit more since but

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Mateo had been hiding the fact that he was this ceo,

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this billionaire running this company from Chloe. You know, he

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was hiding it from Chloe. But they had been living together,

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I think what ten years, And it was one of

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the things that I was like, how was he able

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to hide this from her for this long? How did

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she not realize he was maybe not a billionaire but

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not completely broke or not a ceo. And I know

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they said you have to suspend your reality and kind

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of just enjoy it, but that was just like one

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thing that I sat there going like, how did she

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not know who he was this whole time? Like they've

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been friends for so long, they've been living together for

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so long, he was really able to hide. And speaking

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of hiding, that's the other thing too with these series

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is that the CEO tends to hide his identity from

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his entire business and employees. And I always sit there

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going like, is that actually possible to do in real life?

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Like could a CEO really hide who he was from

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his employees? And I know, if you think about it,

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there's you know, the Undercover Boss where like the series

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if you haven't heard the series of Undercover Boss, where

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a boss goes gets transformed so no one knows who

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who they are to work with their everyday employees and

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see how things are going. And then I think at

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the end, it's like one of the employees that they're

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working with has this sub story that they end up

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helping this employee out by giving them a raise or

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giving them money or something. I've never actually watched the series,

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but I think from what I've seen some this has happened.

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But at the end, the employee still knows what the

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CEO looks like or the boss looks like, so my

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brain really wants to know if this is something that

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can actually happen in real life in a story like this, Yes,

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it makes for great drama, and you always know at

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the end that the person who's being lied to is

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going to find out, but not from the CEO himself.

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It's going to be someone else. The girl's gonna be crushed,

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going to be feeld portrayed. And it just adds to

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the drama, is what it does. And that's the whole

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point of it is it's for the drama. But it

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just makes me wonder if this is something that could

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do because in this one, he also pretends to be

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it and work in it, but don't think he really

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was down in it at all or did anything it related,

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because that was also one thing in this where Chloe

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ends up getting her laptop smashed with her proposal that

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she had been working on and now she has to

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do the whole thing over again. And I'm like, oh,

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he says he's supposed to work in it, so why

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doesn't he take the smash computer and be like, I

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can recover this, or I can try to recover this

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and let me get it back to you. Or why

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doesn't she ask him? It's like, hey, you work in IT?

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Is there any way you can recover what's on my laptop?

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But I guess that would make sense and it may

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end up exposing him before he needed to be exposed,

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because there are sometimes like that where I'll watch these

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series and I was like, well, if they do this,

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then maybe it would work. And then the next moment,

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I go, wait, no, that would make sense, and that

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wouldn't be the drama that we need. And in this case,

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the drama that we need is for her to spend

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all this time redoing this proposal that was just lost

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on a computer that was smashed. And I do know

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that sometimes computers cannot recover all the data if something

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were to happen to it, so I understand that that

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is possibility. I just kind of questioned why no one mentioned, hey,

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he works at IT, maybe he could save it type

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of deal, because they kept saying, oh, he's just an

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IT guy. He's just an IT guy who never tried

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to save her computer. And yes, I know he's a

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CEO not IT guy. But that was just like one

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moment where I was like, why didn't they say that?

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But again, it makes more drama if she asked to

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sit there and spend all night recreating it so that

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way she can win this proposal. And another thing that

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I keep seeing with these series, which they did in

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this one. They did it in another one which had

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Seth as the star too, is the twist at the

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end of the girl being part of the billionaire family

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or the long lost daughter of this billionaire family and

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being matched to the CEO said to be marrying him.

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You know that they this was an arrangement that happened

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when they were babies, but because she vanished or she

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was twitched at birth type of thing, you know, it changed.

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like a twist at the end now, at least for

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this one versus the one that Seth was in, which

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I think it was like it had something to do

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with homeless and pregnant. I think that's the one, but

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I can't remember the name off the top of my head.

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But for this one, they actually kind of like started

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it earlier on versus that other one, it just kind

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of came in at the end because she had a

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birth mark, which when they showed the birthmark in that one.

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I was like, one hundred percent something's going to be

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about that. But I thought it was going to be

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one of those things where he's like, hey, I know you.

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I recognized that we met long time ago. I did

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not expect it to be, Hey, you're the daughter, You're

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the long lost daughter of this billionaire woman. I did

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not see that that twist coming. But for this one,

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she was switched at birth, which made the mother her

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mother not like her because she wasn't her real daughter.

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And I got that sense that she was either adopted

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or not her real daughter as soon as Matteo asked

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the question. And I can't remember what the question was,

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but it was something about how could you do this

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to your daughter? Or how could you treat your daughter

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like this? Something along those lines, And the way the

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mother responded it is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's she's

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my daughter. You could tell just from that that that

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she wasn't really her daughter. I just assumed it was

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she kidnapped Chloe or she adopted Chloe, but just never

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told her, never assumed that she swapped the babies because

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there was no inkling until Matteo started kind of questioning

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that because even he saw it where he was like,

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there's something not right here, definitely something not right. So

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it was kind of nice that they still had it

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within the series that it was like a side storyline

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versus just popping up at the end. But like they said,

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I have noticed that this is kind of like popping

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up a bit more, and sometimes it is a fun

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little twist, be like, oh, hey, she is the heiress

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that he is supposed to be marrying, so they can

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be together, it can be blessed and they can live

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happily ever after. But at the same time, I kind

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of I want one where she is just an average person,

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no royal family, no heiress, no billionaire, long loss billionaire

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daughter ends up with the charming CEO billionaire because they

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love each other. Kind of like that type story, And

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I know there are some out there. I just I said,

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I've been noticing a little bit more that they've kind

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of been doing that with some of the series. I

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was also pleasantly surprised that the mother and brother didn't

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come back after getting money from Mateo. So you know,

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they had come to Chloe and Mateo's work trying to

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act all innocent and victim, and like the victim that

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Chloe's treating them badly and all this YadA YadA YadA,

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because that's what they do, and then people believe them

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because they play the victim so well. Of course that's

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where Gina, who is her coworker, ended up smashing her

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laptop and ruining it, and then Gina got hers smashed

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and she ended up getting fired for that old tobacco. Well,

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but when it came to the mother and brother, you know,

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Matteo is like, okay, you have to You'll take the money,

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give me the deed, leave Chloe alone, and you know,

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like never come back. And normally, you know they in

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series like these, they take the money, they say oh yeah,

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we'll never come back, We'll never come back, only to

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come back, kidnap or try and extort more money. So

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I was very shocked because I was waiting for that

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for her and the brother to come back in the series,

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and they never did. So I was like, I feel like,

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this is one of the first times I've seen this,

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and it's probably not, but for my memory right now,

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this is me remembering it like that, and I just

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didn't expect that. It was like you always see them

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come back because they're that money hungry that they want more.

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Also shocked that they didn't end up working with Jane Ridley,

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who was the daughter who was actually the mother's daughter,

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because Jane and Chloe were the ones who were switched.

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Kind of shocked that they didn't have any interaction either.

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Figured maybe they would, but they did not. And Jane

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or here trying to get Mateo and get her hooks

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into him, but he's madly in love with Chloe and

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will not leave her. So it's kind of interesting how

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they they did that. So it went from the mother

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being the one money hungry and trying to just do

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anything to get the money, to them leaving, and then

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Jane coming in and causing the issues to try and

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break them up so that way she could get Mateo

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for herself, and of course using people like Tom and

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Gina to try and get what she needed, only to

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have those plans foil, but putting it all on them

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instead of her getting in trouble, you know, which she

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worked that out perfectly because she's like, Okay, well I'm

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going to talk to you, but you're the one who's

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going to do all this. I'm going to claim that

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I know nothing about this, and then You're the one

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who's going to get in trouble, and I'm going to

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be perfectly fine. Nothing's going to happen to me because

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I didn't do anything. It was all on you. You

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were the one who did this all, which worked out

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perfectly for her and usually does because it's usually, you know,

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the main villain gets away scot free from some of

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these things until the very end where everything comes out

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and they get sweet justice, which is what happened here

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at the gala, is that she ended up not getting

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Mateo realizing she wasn't the daughter, the Ridley daughter she

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thought she was her father mister Ridley disowning her and

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cutting her completely off, to her attacking Matteo and then

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being arrested for it. So it was a lot of

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sweet justice and we did get a slap which we

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almost again another one where we almost did not get

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a good slap in but came near the end, so

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is waited till the very end and we got the slap.

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And one of the other things that I always look

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forward to these series is the baby. So whenever there

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is a baby in these series, it's always ea there

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a rolled up blanket or just a doll, and I

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understand that's probably because of rules and regulations when it

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comes to babies. I think there have been a couple

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where there have been like a baby for a scene,

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like I know. I think it's one of the series

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Nicole's in where they kind of like show a flashback

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of how her life has been and she has the

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baby on her hip in a scene. I know that

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one off the top of my head, So I know,

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like every so often they do show a baby, but

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like in a hospital room when after the baby is born,

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or like particularly in this one with the wedding at

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the end, where the mom or the grandmother is holding

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the baby, it tends not to be an actual baby.

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It tends to be a doll or rolled up blanket.

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And I'm sure that has to do with rules and

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regulations and maybe how production works for these verticals, because

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I know for movies and TV shows, when it comes

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to babies, they can have babies on set for a

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certain amount of time, they usually have to have more

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than one because it's only a limited amount of time

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that they can have the baby on set, which is

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why you end up with twins most of the time

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playing these babies, or you know, triplets depending on who

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gets the role. So I'm sure it has something to

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do with that, because I know the rules are very

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strict for TV and movies, and I'm sure they're just

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as strict for series like these. But it's always fun

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to see how they create the baby or what they

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do for the baby, and I think my favorite is

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always the rolled up blanket where you don't actually see

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like a baby, versus where you see the doll, the

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baby doll, which, to be fair, there are dolls out

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there that are very lifelike, and I know I think

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some shows actually do use them for like birthing scenes,

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or they use them if you know the baby is

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premature or they can't actually have a real baby on set.

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So I always kind of like wonder, could they do

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something like that or is that like an expense that

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can't be used, because sometimes the dolls that they use

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are more doll like. But I do know that there

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are kind of dolls out there that are very lifelike

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in a sense, and I think they're also used in

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like nursing schools or or like medical schools kind of

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to teach people and teach medical professionals. But I don't

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know about that one that was always kind of like

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one thing that I was very curious whether or not

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they could use a doll like that for the baby,

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because then it would kind of look more realistic. But

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it is always kind of fun to see, Okay, what

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are they doing for the baby this time? Is that

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a baby? Will it look like a baby, or is

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it just a roll of blanket? Which I think for

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this one it might have been just a roll of

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blanket because we never actually saw the baby. We just

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saw the grandmother holding the baby and talking to the baby,

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so you saw the baby all wrapped up in the

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blanket and not the actual baby, so they could get

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away with not having anything, or maybe just having a doll.

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I also kind of feel like I've gone on like

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some little tangents about different series versus actually talking about

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this one as a whole, which is not what I

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meant to do. But I just kind of was like, Okay,

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well we did this, this is what's normally done, so

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but it wasn't done in this And I try to

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stay on topic. I do, but as you can see,

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I start talking about something and it just keeps going.

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But this one was fun. I did. I did enjoy it.

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I thought it was really cute. I loved it. The

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actors who played Chloe and Matteo. You could really feel

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their chemistry with each other. And I love how she

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slowly to kind of realize it's like, oh, I actually

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do have feelings for Matteo and I do want to

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be with him, but can I let myself do that

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type of thing? So you could see that she was

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slowly starting to fall for him even though he's been

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in love with her four years, and you just kind

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of saw how she was opening her eyes to realize

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that he could be the person I could spend the

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rest of my life with and I do really want

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to be with him, and that I do love him.

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And I love when we get to see that, because

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a lot of the times you sometimes don't get to

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see that. You see it's like, oh, well he loves me,

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but he's in love with her, and I'm never going

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to be with me. He's never going to leave her

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and be with me type scenarios. So I love that

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this wasn't that it was a he wants to be

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with me even though she's trying to say, oh, hey,

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I'm supposed to be with him. I don't. I'm not

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buying that. But yeah, so this has been me frantic

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hopefully talking about Flash Married. I'm a best friend. I

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know I didn't always kind of talk about that, but

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it was definitely this little, cute little love story, and

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I love how it stuck to the normal series short

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drama tropes and actions, but also kind of was its

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own series as well. So it's kind of like it

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was a combination of Bolt Innocence that it was like

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this little romantic comedy but also your typical vertical short

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type series and had all the different little things, but

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also was still very much this cute little love story

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where you got the happy ending and they were able

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to renew their vows and have this nice wedding and

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it was just wholesome fun. Enjoyed every minute of it.

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It's definitely say about a nine out of ten on

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a rating scale for me, and I think mostly because

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it had Luke Charles Stafford in it, who I adore.

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He's another one that I adore. I also confuse him

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from time to time with Chris Brochu, who was on

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The Vampire Diaries. For some reason, my brain things that

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they look like even though I don't actually think they do,

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so definitely have to like put them side by side

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and see. But for some reason, my brain sees him

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and goes, you know what, he looks so much like

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Chris Brochu and I that's just one of the things

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that my brain likes to confuse him for. But he

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is another one that I do enjoy his series, and

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I've seen a couple different ones of his. I know

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he just had another one come out on Real Short

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again terrible with names, but I do know. It was

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about his wedding. His sister was in town or all wolves,

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and his fiance thought that his sister was actually his mistress,

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so they attack her, not realizing that it was actually

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his sister. And I keep seeing those ads and those

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clips on TikTok and Instagram sometimes on Facebook two and

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I have to watch that one. That's another one that

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I will definitely watch. So I need to see how

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that ends. I want to know how it ends with

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the fiance, whether or not she gets kicked to the

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curb or put in jail or you know, banished from

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the pack, because I know, because you know, he's not

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marrying her, you know that's not happening. But that's another one.

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That I have to watch and I look forward to

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watching it. I have a long list of ones that

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I gotta watch, which I will definitely be doing this weekend,

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kind of going through and watch some of them. But

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this was one of the ones that I wanted to

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watch first because I really wanted to see it because

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I again thought it was like this little cute romantic comedy,

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which it definitely was, so I thoroughly enjoyed it. I

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would totally recommend it to others. But yeah, so this

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has been my vertical obsession and until next time,