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Welcome to My vertical Obsession. I'm your host mate, and
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today we are talking about the seduction game on Real
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Short So this one stars Kayla Brady as Lyla Lennox,
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Noah Andre as Preston Whitmore, and Via Price as Brynn
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Sterling and the synopsis is when a brilliant, dirt poor
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teen earns a scholarship to an elite prep school, she
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becomes the target of a cruel queen Bee and her
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bad boy Pond, who's task with seducing and destroying her
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before the ivy Lea admissions are announced. But what no
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one expects is the girl from the trailer is playing
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them all and she might just take the crown, the scholarship,
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and his heart. So my overview for this is Lyla
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is a scholarship student at Sterling Pratt who has been
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working hard to go to Yale, the same college her
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mom attended. Brynn, the popular girl, believes that Lyla doesn't
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deserve the spot and it should be hers. She enlists
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the help of Preston to distract and seduce Lyla, so
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she ends up losing out on her chance at Yale
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since she is offering Preston the chance to sleep with her,
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which is what he's always wanted. He says he'll do it,
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neither knowing Lilah heard the whole conversation. Now she's out
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to beat them at their own game. Nothing will stop
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her from going to Yale, not even love. Preston thought
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it would be easy. He thought it would be able
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to play Lilah and win Brynn. Only he didn't know
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Lila was paying him the whole time. Somewhere in the game,
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things changed and Preston fell for Lila. Lila and Brynn's
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plans never changed. Lila used that to have some fun,
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but also keep them from ruining her chances at going
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to Yale. After Lila overhears Brynn and Preston talking about
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their bed and sees them kissing, She's reminded that love
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has no place that she will get into Yale no
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matter what. Only she didn't see Preston wasn't really into
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what Brynn was giving. He was more playing a part.
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Now Lila is pulling away from Preston, and when she
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reveals she knows the whole truth she's done, He's fallen
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and ready to fight to win her back. Lilah only
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wants to go to Yale and will not let Preston
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ruin that even if it means it will break her
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heart too. Preston shows up at her steps with a
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gift to try and win her back and tells her
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he loves her. Lila calls Brynn to hear all Preston
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has to say. Lila tells him all Brynn has done
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to her, that she was able to get a video
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of the abuse to stop her, and that is why
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Bryn sent Preston to ruin her. Lila says that he
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was the pawn. President asked her if she liked him,
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and she said she liked what he made her feel,
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but that was it. He doesn't believe her. He hopes
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the gift would help, but she still says she doesn't
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like him, which breaks both their hearts. Preston still isn't
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willing to give up. He wants to win Lila back.
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Lyla thinks he's trying to distract her, so she ties
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him up and heads to her Yale Galla. While making
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her speech, her dad and stepmom show up to discredit her.
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Thanks to Bryn, Lila is able to prove them as
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liars and Preston shows up just in time to help
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get rid of them. She finishes her speech and the
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two get back together. That is until Preston's dad tries
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to break them up. He offers her money, which Lila
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doesn't take, but she still breaks up with him, thinking
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it's what's best for him, So he gets back with Brynn,
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but in hopes it will get Lila back. A month
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later and Brynn is back to her old tricks, trying
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to ruin Lilah. Meanwhile, Preston finds the check and snaps
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at his dad. He races off to find Lila to
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tell her that he knows, but finds the photos Brynn leaked.
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Comes to save Lila and stop Brynn. They end up
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finding out that many others have been bullied by Brynn
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and finally put an end to her reign. Lila finds
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out that she's going to Yale, so did Preston. The
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two admit their failings for each other and get back
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to get there. Getting into the talking points, so, the
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first one is about Preston falling for Lila. I really
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felt like Preston fell for Lilah when he dared her
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to take off her top. He didn't think she would
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do it, but when she did, he saw her in
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a new light. That is why he ended up saving
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her from everyone seeing her, he saw her differently and
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realized he kind of liked who she was. It might
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have taken a bit more to truly fall harder for him,
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but I think that moment at the pool that started
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it all, you could see bit of a change in
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him during that scene. Even if that isn't the case,
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I still choose to believe that is where Preston started
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to fall for Lila for real. In that moment, she
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made him rethink everything. So that's kind of where I
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saw Preston really kind of seeing Lilah completely different than
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the version that Brynn had kind of told him. So
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he saw that she was up for things and that
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maybe he had her all wrong and that she wasn't
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just this quiet little mouse that he was told she
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was kind of thing. So I felt like that's where
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it all started for him. So the next talking point
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I had was Lila's game, which was basically Lilah kind
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of playing the both of them throughout the whole thing.
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It said, how I love how Lilah played them both
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so easily. She was truly five steps ahead of them. Both.
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While she was falling for Preston to she still knew
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why he was even talking to her. So she used
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their game against them and they never even realized she
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was on to them. If anything, showed just how smart
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Lilah really is that she was able to use their
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tricks against them, as she was able to figure out
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what they were planning and find a way to outplay them.
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I just love how it was never anything too big
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and it was just enough to throw them off. That
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is what made me really love the character of Lila
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more so. The next talking point I had was a
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about the book, which was the gift that Preston gave
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to Lila. I knew once it was mentioned that Lila
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wanted a first and second edition of this book. I
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forget what the actual name of the book is. I
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feel like it was like Vanity Fair, I forget what
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the name of the book was, but she wanted a
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first or second edition of the book. That Preston would
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end up getting it for her. I figured he could
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use that to prove his love to Lilah. It would
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be this whole romantic moment. Only that's not how it went.
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He did buy it, needed to try to use it
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to prove he loved her, but it wasn't the romantic
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moment that I thought it would be. Lila still turned
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him away. To be fair, she had her reasons and
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they were valid. I just thought that him buying the
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copy would be proof she needed to know that he
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loved her. I think it helped. Plus seeing him heartbroken
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outside afterwards helped show her he did really care about her.
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She was just so driven by Yale she didn't want
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to risk anything messing that up. I think it helped
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open her heart to allow her to forgive him later on.
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It was the start for them finding their way back
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to each other. So while it wasn't this romantic gesture
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and moment that I thought it was, it still was
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a key moment that I think helped bring them back
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in the end. So I think it helped with her
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forgiving him and getting back together with him after the
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Yale gala before his father kind of interfered. But I
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still thought it was going to be this romantic moment
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of he bought me this book. He really cared because
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he really listened to what I wanted. That's kind of
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how I saw it would go, so because that's I
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feel that's how romantic gestures go in movies and TV
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shows sometimes, so that's why I was like, Oh, this
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is how it's going to work. But it didn't go
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that way. And then my life point was just a
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little error that I had to point out a little
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because I didn't notice it at first, but then my
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second watching I noticed it a little bit more. But
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it's the video which gets shot at the pool and
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then Brinn shows later on which Lyla knew what they
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were doing. She just didn't know how it was going
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to be used, but she knew it was to try
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and show Lila as drinking on school property when she
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wasn't supposed to, to kind of discredit her and ruin her
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reputation a little bit and to get her in trouble.
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So it was Lila. So when Lila was at the pool,
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there was the phone with the ring light that was
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filming everyone drinking. You could see everyone taking the phone
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and doing the whole this is my first drink and
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taking the sit with the phone. But when Brinn showed
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it at the assembly, it was a completely different video
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and you could see Lila was holding the phone that
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she was supposed to be recording with, and it's not
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the video that was shot during that scene, and I
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felt like they should have just least cut out that
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she was holding the phone to maybe sell it as
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that footage from the phone, because I don't think there
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was anyone else filming at the time that you saw,
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because that was the whole point was to get it
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on film for the TikTok. But yeah, so that's one
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of the things that I thought was that they could
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have maybe cut out the phone in the footage it
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made it seem like it was from the phone, or
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they could have shot it with the phone while they
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were filming that scene so they could have used the
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phone footage later on. I don't know how well that
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would have worked. I don't know if it would have
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been possible, but I thought about it as an idea.
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But I was just one of those things where I
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found it funny when you look at it, you realize
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it's not the phone footage but the actual footage from
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that scene that they filmed. So and I know that's
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happened before in other series. It's also happened to TV shows.
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I know I've seen that where they'll take scenes that
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were filmed in the episode past and pretend like it
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was a film video from the characters. So I know
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it's a thing that is done to kind of save
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on reshooting or filming a scene too many times, but
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it's just fun when it's one of those things when
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you can clearly see that it's not the video it's
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supposed to be. But I will say that that scene
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when she had Preston give her the drink, she was
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thinking like I like, I said, five steps ahead, because
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she's like, well, I'm taking the alcohol, but you can't
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really tell that I'm taking the alcohol because he's feeding
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it to me. So when she goes, I'm just kissing boy,
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it's like that's why she did it that way, to
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make it just be like, hey, no, we're just kissing.
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I'm not drinking. You can't tell I'm drinking alcohol. It's
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like I was like, Wow, she really was so far
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ahead when it came to keeping up to what Britta
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and Preston were trying to do, or at least what
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Brynn was trying to do. So I thought that was
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very clever. I love that. Okay, So going over to
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my overall thoughts for this. I said this series gave
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off a little cruel intent vibes with the whole bet
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was similar to the one in the movie. Same with
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Preston for falling for Lila. I think it was supposed
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to be a version of it, but like a twist
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of what if the one being seduced or knew about
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the bet, which is kind of an interesting way of
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retelling the story. And I don't know if it was
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really supposed to be like a version of cruel intentions,
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but that's kind of how I saw it because it
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really gave off that vibe, So that's kind of how
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I saw it, was like it was a retelling of
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that story, but with a little bit of a twist
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of what if the person they were trying to seduce
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actually knew the plan and was trying to out seduce
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maneuver them, which actually is an interesting plot, So I
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love that. That's how I saw this as a way.
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But I thought Kayla and Noah did a great job
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as Lila and Preston. They played off each other very well.
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Their chemistry was really great too. The same with Bira
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as Brinn. She did a great job given that mean
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girl energy of how just when you think you knew
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what might happen, Lila does something to throw everything off.
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It was so fun to watch Lila beating them at
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their own game. And loved watching Preston fall for Lila.
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You can slowly see him falling over time for her
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and just not caring about this whole brin bet and
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what she wanted. He just wanted Lila and loved watching
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him falling for her. So it's a nice little love
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story there. And it was a great series. I really
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enjoy it. It was really well done. I recommend it
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fantastic and it was just so great I did. I
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really enjoyed it. And that's one of the things with
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Real Short is that I very much enjoy their their series.
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They have some really cute and fun series that you
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can just watch I get it again, and this happens
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to be one of them. So yeah, So going into
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my rating, I gave it a seven point five out
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of ten. And there were a few things that could