“AFTER EVER HAPPY” MADE HARDIN WORSE SOMEHOW???? | BAD MOVIES & A BEAT | KennieJD

[@iputcreamcheeseinmyramen]

"I'm sorry I couldn't fix you" "girl shut the fuck up" might be my favourite quote to date

[@joannecendana]

that actually made me LOL

[@watchingyoutube8132]

The fact that she can't just dump him is probably the most realistic and frustrating part of this movie. It's like watching your friend go back to the same clown again and again and again and eventually you can't even yell at them to dump him because they've morphed into a clown too with how many times they've gotten back together. I want to meet someone irl who has ever rooted for this couple to be together. This movie feels like a PSA for abusive relationships, not some romance.

[@Laura-gd4ku]

Just for once I want a movie where the girl has good friends who help her out and than a satisfying end where she dumps one of these guys

[@afrofrench-american2002]

@@Laura-gd4ku Crazy enough, I have a wattpad novel like that. The MC has friends who help her leave her abusive boyfriend. Lol one thing I can say about the After series is that it's teaching me what NOT to do😂

[@Author.Noelle.Alexandria]

The actual fans of this shit want them together. It’s disgusting.

[@anyone1111]

What’s the name of the novel though?😚

[@afrofrench-american2002]

@@anyone1111 Moose and Goose. It's a story with a 99% black cast, set in 1979. The cover should have Tamara Dobson crying on a man's chest.

[@newsilverware5299]

The fact the only actors staying are the two toxic main characters while everyone else leaves this mess? Now that's true art.

[@thxwanderer]

I believe the checks gotta be fat.

[@iGotBulletproof-Insomnia]

Almost symbolic isn't it?

[@LEbackstage]

Why would real daddy let himself get sucked into this franchise? He was freaking Bill Compton. 😭😭😭

[@jemiialii]

@@LEbackstage IKR. 😂 like my guy you were the face of TRUE BLOOD

[@QueenKittles]

@@LEbackstage he inherited the moodiness from Bill Compton

[@journeysilvers9838]

Having an ex take your trauma and profit off of it by revealing it to the entire world is beyond unforgivable

[@NEIKUUKWOW]

The copious amounts of drinking Hardin does just makes me so uncomfortable. An alcoholic family member went completely manic in a drunken state, no matter how much we helped them it just wasnt enough. I’ve had to call the cops on them and I feared for my family’s safety. It isn’t romantic, it will never be romantic. You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped.

[@LLCoolJ_25]

I’ve had this same situation. It’s very traumatic.

[@elleofhearts8471]

I can't believe were still not past romanticizing addiction and its affect on relationships in entertainment. Its such a dead horse and theres more openness and awareness on the consequences of addiction so more people now than ever know the truth about addiction. Theres no excuses for this.

[@amberruby4896]

100% true, they can change but only if they really want to

[@DefyReality-ll2cg]

@@elleofhearts8471 THIS!!

[@Cadapech]

@@elleofhearts8471 That horse has been mummified and eaten by the British Royal Family.

[@symonew33]

The fact that Hardin was writing this book the whole time puts all their fights into a very different perspective. It’s like he was picking fights to get storylines for his book

[@iridizousa8578]

👀👀

[@Stephanie.101]

😅😂😂 like vloggers who start drama for the views 😂

[@REALLYLOVESCATS]

the family channels that obnoxiously stick their camera in the kids faces

[@Kikkarlin]

I genuinely wonder if the author ever considered that 😬cuz if the did... OOOF

[@CursedCatTruffa]

... I wouldn't be surprised, he's a terrible abusive asshole

[@raviolimaker6250]

The most impressive part of this series is how they manage to make us hate Hardin even more

[@gabiluch87]

"I'm shit without you".. Guess what buddy, you are shit with her too!

[@catdogis]

fr like hating a shitty wh*te dude is not something difficult…but they seem to want to give us a helping hand

[@aafreen2018]

@im sacred i wasn't looking for this clip

[@selenesspoilers6006]

@im sacred omg is this really the clip I wanted!! The one with the cat in the jet pack flying to space!!? 😆🤣

[@fleabaggins]

ah…the magic of *✨toxicity✨*

[@lovefromwonderland]

The way Hardin literally committed arson and yet the writers still wanted us to root for him and Tessa's relationship 🤡

[@JasonToddsThighs]

Arson is your dealbreaker? Out of every other terrible way he's fucked over her life?

[@brunomars2510885]

and just like a fool I did🤡 (when I first read the fanfic on wattpad💀)

[@TKZells16]

​@@brunomars2510885 Wait, did he really set his mom's house on fire??

[@brunomars2510885]

@@TKZells16 yup in the fanfic he did💀

[@someanon1984]

"I'm sorry I couldn't fix you." "Me too." Guys, I was mid-chew when I heard this. I rolled my eyes at her line because of course, but when he AGREED... When he went to his grieving girlfriend who's so traumatized that she can't get out of bed and he basically said, "yeah, you dropped the ball"... I ALMOST CHOKED.

[@elleofhearts8471]

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Remember how his mom guilted Tessa into staying with harden because she basically improved his mental illness by being in a relationship with him? ick

[@rochelle1199]

The audacity

[@MsBlackDiamond88]

Same!! I was likeeee nooooo, no tf he didn’t. But indeed. He did. 😩

[@nyx_moonwalk]

if he'd grown as a person that line could've been like "i'm sorry i couldn't help you either when you needed it." but hardin just. hardins.

[@someanon1984]

@@nyx_moonwalk I TRULY thought he was going to say something like "No. I'm sorry I couldn't fix me" or... idk something!! I was NOT expecting him to go "yeah, you right". 😭

[@quinnberly]

The next After should just be a genre switch into a thriller where Tessa hunts Hardin for sport

[@mst3kharris]

The Most Dangerous Happy

[@pd96851]

@@mst3kharristhis comment made me snicker hideously 😭

[@claranadine1086]

​@@mst3kharris LMAOOOO

[@summerx.4708]

this comment is giving me dylan is in trouble energy 😭💀

[@CeeCee962]

If this was 2009, she woulda been pregnant and Hardin would’ve pushed for an abortion. Then Landon would step up only to imprint on the baby.

[@babyfaceweeb8937]

Pfft hell is hot. 🤣🤣🤣

[@shakirashipslied9721]

💀💀

[@CeeCee962]

@@babyfaceweeb8937 Ms. Meyers knows💀

[@diendiamonds175]

That was too good, I can't breathe lol

[@LS-vq2or]

LMAOOOOOO

[@rachel5399]

I like how Tessa didnt have a good relationship with her dad, she eventually meets up with him again, he wants to be in her life, turns out he's homeless and a drunk, and then he dies and she took all of that better than Hardin just finding out that his dad isnt who he thought he was, which, yeah, is still rough, and you're validated in your sadness and anger, but I just love how Tessa's family turmoil is so glossed over, to focus on Hardin's boring storyline that proves to have no development when we are 4 movies in! Tessa could get her head cut off and Hardin would just be over in the corner crying into a bottle because he got a paper cut.

[@pixiestxNyomouf]

Cause, like discussed in the first video in the comments, the story is about Tessa, but it's actually about Him. She's a supporting character for him which is pathetic since it took her a hot minute (I was applauding her for every put down she gave him in this) to actually develop as a person which was literally just because he put her through hell

[@brkh96]

Hardin is such a wimp lol

[@nont18411]

Hardin: “But but ma rough childhood…”

[@tonichan89]

Well, he also got vetbally and physically abused because of it. And watched his mum get raped. Which all honestly feels contrived as fuck, just like everything about Hardin really. There're no questions or themes addressed in his backstory; the incidents are just designed to be as melodramatically awful as possible, solely for the function of justifying his bullshit (which it still doesn't), and make the audience pity him... but like in a sexy way uwu.

[@mfuentes4961]

It blows my mind that Ned was apparently the head of HR at the Try Guys company and thought he could get away with that bullshit. Like the fact that he capitalized on his public marriage throughout his career on the internet and then publicly cheated with someone who was a lower level employee in his own company (where his own wife works as well) is just major yikes and a huge HR violation. It’s about to get real messy at the Try Guys company…

[@gabiluch87]

The cheating alone is horrible, but he also put his best friends job in danger and vulnerable to law suits... Do not shit where you eat!

[@aladdout9454]

uk what? they all possibly knew and therefore had a lot of inside joke moments about it like questioning his marriage on lie detector and just acting suspicious. It all just comes across that they all knew and were basically mocking the poor girl. Smol pp low testosterone energy 👎

[@Fallenemiko]

@@aladdout9454 bro the reach

[@Ilikefrogs..]

@@aladdout9454 If they knew, why would they fire him before anyone found out?

[@rockandfashion7207]

It’s just interesting that this turned into a whole thing because in certain communities (not all the time but a lot of the time) what the man did would have been glorified as his being a player 🙄

[@PeggyKoneko]

I hope the next movie is After We Litigate because that whole book thing doesn't seem legal

[@genesismatthews999]

I'm confused about the word "Happy" being in the title 🤨

[@QUISPEECH]

Lmao yo. Correct ❤❤😙

[@joefernandez8008]

"After I Drag Your @$$ to Court"

[@purplelamp273]

If someone published all of MY trauma and sold it and didn't even change my name, that relationship is over for good and if I could afford it, a good lawsuit would be sent their way. Like, Tessa is also interested in English... she could've written about her OWN trauma. Hardin literally steals everything from Tessa: a college experience, sanity, self-worth, AND NOW HER OWN STORY. Don't know how anyone likes Hardin. Also - the way they recast everyone has me cackling hysterically. Bring back Dylan Sprouse's character please. I don't care what you have to pay him.

[@alexlovesjams9588]

I don’t think they can pay him enough 😂😭 he gives a if I never see this movie again it’d still be too soon vibe

[@quackquack5844]

it just pisses me off because HE became successful off of her fucking trauma n shit

[@saumyavig8964]

Tessas trash too, she keeps enabling his clownass. I have sympathy for none of them lmao

[@beautyandtheoffbeats]

Dylan ain’t making time for this trash

[@SergeantDaynes]

It was such a missed opportunity story wise to have Hardin write the book instead of Tessa. Like imagine: they’re separated, she writes the book as a way to process everything that’s happened to her. She decides to publish it and the book blows up. Hardin sees that she wrote a book and decides to read it and sees EXACTLY how shitty of a person he’s been. Like it’s laid out there plainly for him to see. It would have made more sense for her to write the book and the fact that it wasn’t is such a disservice.

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

Hardin: I'M NAH WORTH IT, TESSA! I'M JUS A PIT UH DARKNESS!! LEAVE ME!! Also Hardin: WHY 'R U LEAVIN' ME?!! I hate him so much lol.

[@princessofhell4639]

Just shows he literally is an abuser and uses manipulative tactics to get people to stay with him that's why he was shocked when she left.

[@thgritic102]

It irked the hell out of me how Hardin was like "Tessa is trying to trap me with a baby" when she asked to use BC, and then turns around and get mad at her for a fertility issue THAT ISNT HER FAULT!! Tell me you don't understand the human body without telling me you don't understand the human body. It's random! I can never forgive the author for setting up Tessa with Hardin who doesn't have sympathy and empathy for her at all, and she dared write Trevor out of the story completely by this point. Reasons why I write a fanfic of this mess 🤦🏿‍♀️

[@galaxyocicat5660]

The author has a fetish for abusive men I guess?

[@abby9448]

LINK THE FIC I need something to heal from this mess of a movie

[@thgritic102]

@@abby9448 It's called After the Fall by Reading_AJ on both WP & AO3. Hopefully YT let this through.

[@abby9448]

@@thgritic102 It did :D Thank you so much

[@thisasiankidistrashfordram374]

Bruh, the fact that this story STILL screams "White TEENAGE GIRL'S Wattpad Harry Styles fanfic" when the author's been an adult for a while is Astounding. There's been Little to NO Growth in the writing of this series. TO BE FAIR, Stephanie Meyer, E.L. James & the chick who wrote 365 Days kept the same level of Mess or got Worse. So I can't really say that the After series author is unique either.

[@shanettaylee2218]

Man their relationship is the poster child for “ sexual attraction isn’t and shouldn’t be replacement for emotional maturity”

[@444barbie]

the try guys drama is so insane to me because the ego you have to have to be a public figure and cheat in public in NEW YORK CITY with an employee who’s also a public figure then calling it ‘losing focus’. then finding out this incident wasnt even his first time cheating and the people around him knew he been sleezy… a mess

[@mochrimek]

and like, the fact his entire internet personality was being "so in love" with his wife is just disgusting.

[@agalo3631]

Woah, it’s not the first time he cheated either?!?

[@kissit012]

@@mochrimek it was overcompensation not love

[@gothicxromantic]

Also the sheer disrespect to his wife… like you weren’t even sneaking around, you were literally taking her out on dates as a “famous” man in a crowded city holy shit

[@TenderNoodle]

Not to mention calling your affair a “consensual workplace relationship” as if that makes it better(?)

[@MochaxMatcha]

My jaw DROPPED when the manuscript read "he tried not to be selfish. he couldn't help think about the little versions of him she couldn't give him" ARE YOU KIDDING ME. AND THEN HE HAS THE NERVE TO PROFIT FROM HER TRAUMA. Boy if you don't AT LEAST give me half of every single penny, I'm suing for everything. OH MY GOD. He was already terrible and then he has a the nerve to profit. Also...real nice that he pushed away and vomited on the black girl he went to hug up on...

[@starlitbri]

i feel like hardin was so upset by her not able to get pregnant is cause now he can't trap her with a baby

[@babyfaceweeb8937]

A blessing in disguise tbh. 🤣🤣

[@yea0000]

i’m just fascinated rn that there’s four of these movies, 3 was pushing it

[@nannaleifa]

Considering he (in the book) keeps nagging her to marry him, trying to baby trap her seems very much in-character to me.

[@iridizousa8578]

I have not read the fanfic and I don't know how this story ends but I can feel it DEEP in my bones that, somehow, some way, Tessa is going to get pregnant and Hardin's narrative is going to be something along the lines of "our live is so pure it cured your infertility" OR he's going to push for an abortion

[@itstheverve]

OOP 😳

[@Laura-gd4ku]

The next movie has to have a twist. Harden is just an unreliable narrator of the whole series and currently in prison bc he was stalking and harassing tessa after the first time they broke up. The next movie shows a court hearing where tessa testifies the years of stalking and how she feared for her live and we get flash backs from her perspective showing a whole different story. Hardens books are ofc crap and will not be published so he uploads them to Wattpad from the prison library. His therapist thought that writing would help him but she reads the shit on wattpad and decides that he is still a danger to society bc he doesn’t acknowledge reality and still his obsessed with tessa.

[@PurpleSy]

This is genius

[@absenttoday7226]

Laura, you're hired

[@Tareltonlives]

Already that's better written than ANY of these books

[@parisewellington3664]

This movie series makes me so mad that I never finished any of my fanfics. I could've been making bank🤭

[@boiwhatdahellboi69]

IKR it’s never too late😪

[@noir_sirena]

Go find them & adapt them to movies!!! It's never too late. Make sure to get a good Intellectual Property lawyer to set up your royalties forever. 😁

[@gabiluch87]

Go back to it and write something better!!!

[@kissit012]

Netflix is handing out checks

[@Tareltonlives]

honestly, that's why I get discouraged from writing. If people would rather read this garbage, what chance do I have?

[@eliontheinternet3298]

He really said "it's not all about you" in reference to a book LITERALLY ALL ABOUT HER???? I SCREAMED

[@OmarAyusoVA]

No fr

[@HopelessDreamersClub]

I still really don’t understand why this became a series but at least we get good content from Kennie 😍😍

[@joohra_]

bc this series is a dumpster fire

[@Angi3_6]

At least Twilight had a hook: vampires! And 50 Shades: kink/bdsm (even though it totally misrepresented the community)!

[@DeeSunbae]

Convinced this is only a series because they love listening to Kennie roast them 😂

[@taydream]

I'm gonna say because it is the most read series on Wattpad

[@prieltheprune1302]

@@Angi3_6 Fr after is just straight dooky

[@psyche5200]

The ending just pissed me off so much because after all the shit that Hardin did to Tessa, HE GETS TO CAPITALIZE OFF IT?? BYE 💀

[@alejandraceledon402]

Dude, the worst part of this movie specifically is that shows that Tessa has literally lost everything since meeting Hardin, like she was at a good college, she had a good relationship with her mother, she has already been at peace with her father out of the picture, and had a quite good job/internship thing, but she ended trying to put back the pieces of her life, and he still haunts her and writes about the worst and most hurtful parts of her life, WITHOUT EVEN CHANGING HER NAME, like, dude, you have literally broken this girl life and put such a burden into her shoulders with the whole "fixing" shit, and you cannot keep her life at peace, like wtf. And he ends up a super popular writer and at peace with his parents, yet she ends up trying to move on? And, to add insult to injury, there will be a fifth movie in wich they'll end together and I think they have kids, because there was this rumor about a movie ABOUT THE KIDS. Like, omg, this really needs to stop like NOW, and the fact that there's people still romanticizing it blows my mind. With that being said, Kennie could make anything funny and worth the watch, so I'll have to keep coming back to this anyway lol

[@princessofhell4639]

If you think about it its really a great commentary on the patriarchy.

[@MrBookworm01]

Testify! The only thing I disagree with is Tessa's relationship with her mom. From what I've seen, that relationship is just as toxic as Tessa's relationship with Hardin. In the first movie, her mother knew nothing about her relationship, so it can't be said she was trying to protect Tessa from abuse because she didn't even know at the time that was going to happen. Even if she had, cutting her off financially for not listening to her STILL would've been inexcusable since it only drove her further into Hardin's web. In the second movie, she got worse by getting mad at Tessa for rightfully being upset at her for not letting her father contact her and once again denigrated her relationship with Hardin--again, not because she was concerned for her daughter's well-being, but because she was angry at her for not living her life exactly the way she wanted her to. In short, poor Tessa simply went from one toxic control freak to another.

[@soph6853]

Kennie's british accent is better than the main guy’s. And the actor is literally british. And this sends me every time I hear it

[@princessofhell4639]

As a British person I'm sure that can't be a real accent. It more sounds like a British person imitating a non British person imitating a British person 😭😭

[@jadyn9982]

There is nothing I want to hear more than Kennie's full thoughts on the Try Guys drama

[@medea__witchhh]

pleasee 😭

[@libbitjones6669]

YESSS

[@angelicbin131]

yes please!! i didn't even know what happened before i came here and i need to hear more! 😭🍵

[@saltbae1789]

YES PLEASE

[@692nabeehaquazi6]

Please

[@vsprsgdby]

Another KZbinr said Tessa wears color whenever her and Hardin are broken up and apart, but when they’re together she wears just as much black as he does like if he really becomes her personality and I’ve been thinking about that for so long.

[@lpfun1494]

I feel like Hardin is the type of guy who would go on AITA and ask "AITA for writing a whole novel about my ex, including her alcoholic dad dying, her infertility, while also not changing the names? BTW it got super popular" with a bunch of YTA votes coming in and him arguing in the comments "It's not about her!" until he rage deletes the post and his account. 😂 I saw a bit of the Try Guys stuff and that was a rabbit hole and a half.

[@marisaher1642]

Omg the some of the AITA people are just so fucking oblivious to how awful their actions are. Hardin would fit right in

[@lpfun1494]

@@marisaher1642 "AITA for setting my mom's couch on fire and almost burning down the whole apartment complex?" I know the title sounds bad but hear me out...

[@Cnichal]

I can’t wait to watch the youtube video! 😂

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

"Why OP may think they're the Asshole: I didn't really think to change the names. Should I have dedicated the book to her to make up for it? idk"

[@Author.Noelle.Alexandria]

The Iranian yogurt is NOT the problem here.

[@AndSoWeLaughed]

Imagine being with someone who says “me too” to your apology of not being able to fix them, instead of them being self aware (after they’ve both had traumatic experiences) and saying “that’s not your job, I need to seek help from elsewhere as this relationship is toxic and co-dependent. Let’s try again when we’re okay” trrraaaassshhh

[@penguinbabeez]

Y'all, I had to stop at the line, "It's like it's been taken away from us." Y'ALL. The abusive relationship I was in years ago had this language in it, taking a problem I had and extending it to the abusive partner. I had anxiety and, no joke, the guy I was with said, "How are we ever gonna have kids if this (my anxiety) happens every time (ie: when he wanted the horizontal tango, and my body freaked out because he'd done it against my consent before)?" I know it's just a movie, but Tessa? Run as fast as your legs can take you!

[@penguinbabeez]

Edit: The end...if the next book doesn't begin in the middle of some kind of slander case against Hardin... 🙃

[@upsetstudios1819]

I'm really sorry that happened to you, I hope you're in a better place. And omg yes, the most unbelievable part of Hardin publishing that book is that nobody canceled him

[@stellarae8257]

I’m glad you were able to get out of that situation. You deserve MUCH better than that. Fuck him and everyone like him

[@scrubstatus123]

The way me and my friend were screaming about how the movie just glossed over how he tried to BURN HIS MOTHERS HOUSE DOWN

[@paulo8989]

Like if my child tried to burn my house down, he would not only lose a dad

[@igbaduneunhye6039]

He didnt try, the little mf did it Like why, just why?

[@tonichan89]

Big deal, it's just a HOUSE that she lived in 😂 just her goddamn home with all her personal things in it. Probably has all her photos, etc etc. Could've killed the neighbours in the adjacent apartments too, but they're just some faceless normies. They're not DEEP, probably never touched a book in their entire lives. So really, do their lives matter? Do normie lives matter?

[@LifeOfTheAngels]

I think the most egregious thing about him publishing that book was the fact most of those situations had nothing to do with him, it’d be one thing if the book was centered strictly around their relationship and HIS own trauma, but no he’s literally just publishing the potential trauma of her losing her father and seeing him dead, especially considering she didn’t even want to talk to or see him, for the general public to see and he does not care and had the nerve to say it’s not all about you…..like I’m SICK

[@morley364]

Right? Like it's one thing for me to write about losing someone I love, but imagine if I wrote a whole section about a friend's mom dying without checking in with them. AND THEN PUBLISHED IT ANYWAY when they said 'please don't'. THE NERVE. "How dare you not understand how your dad dying was part of my character growth" absolute trash.

[@medea__witchhh]

@@morley364literally vile that sounds like a nightmare situation omg

[@Laura-gd4ku]

The next movie has to have a twist. Harden is just an unreliable narrator of the whole series and currently in prison bc he was stalking and harassing tessa after the first time they broke up. The next movie shows a court hearing where tessa testifies the years of stalking and how she feared for her live and we get flash backs from her perspective showing a whole different story. Hardens books are ofc crap and will not be published so he uploads them to Wattpad from the prison library. His therapist thought that writing would help him but she reads the shit on wattpad and decides that he is still a danger to society bc he doesn’t acknowledge reality and still his obsessed with tessa.

[@kiascommentary]

Also, The fact that it ends with like he’s a successful book writer now and like she’s dawning stalkery clothes and kind of stalking and longing for him while she’s working as a waitress and yada yada yada like what are they trying to say; why is he successful 🥴

[@calmandfree]

Hardin already has enough baggage to write a library but he settled on his girlfriend's traumatic experience and uses it to launch his career, claiming he's writing their story and doing it from a place a love. But my girl hasn't seen a Check from all those book sales, maybe the next instalment would be her taking him to court.

[@sadplatypus7503]

The next movie better be about Tessa suing his ass for every single thing he's ever done to her, using his damn book as proof

[@gothicxromantic]

“As long as it’s not Keith or Eugene I don’t really care” when I tell you this was my exact reaction to the Try Guys scandal

[@toxicallypink]

lmao same

[@pixiestxNyomouf]

But i also love Zach. He deserve more credit and love

[@saumyavig8964]

What about zach?? He deserves love too :"(

[@witchplease9695]

@@saumyavig8964 he’s boring. I only care about Eugene because he’s beautiful.

[@nala6846]

@@pixiestxNyomouf I’m sure he’s cool too But he was just never a favourite. Plus when I used to watch the try guys I found him a lil annoying and mad insecure

[@emclaire7027]

The literal GASP I let out with the book quote about her not being able to GIVE HIM children-oh I know he doesn’t exist but I want that man to go to hell fr

[@Aster_Iris]

I'm also particularly squicked by "little versions of himself", like he specifically wanted their kids to just all look like him (or worse, *be* just like him) and he's upset that "she couldn't give him that". The sheer ego on top of feeling sexist. Like every little thing about that quote is supremely scummy.

[@custosluna8433]

Girl, if you want to make a Ned/Try Guys video PLEASE GO FOR IT. Honestly, you're the only source of tea I trust.

[@sarhahillsburg5142]

I would be so happy of she did. It like your cool big sis or( as she's coming into) your wine aunty sitting you down for all the tea you didn't even know you needed to hear while it scolding hot

[@brkh96]

It's out ☕☕☕

[@ziggystatdust6008]

I’m going to applaud this movie for showing one thing: it shows how narcissistic partners use and abuse their victims for for their personal gain, and when they are done with you, they dump you out on the street and move on, without any thought of you. He used the tactic of being aware and remorseful of his abusive behaviour to constantly drag her back into the relationship. Narcissists often use this approach. They’ll preach about how they know they are awful, and how toxic they are to their partners, that they are not deserving of the love their partners give them because they are unloveable. They don’t say this because they love you, or want to change, they say it to control you. Then the partner thinks “Oh, he knows he is a terrible person, I should give him a chance. My love can save him”. They stay in the relationship, and the cycle continues. After he has gotten what he wanted from her, ie. using her trauma and his abusive behaviour during their relationship to write a best-selling book, he is no longer chasing after her. He’s now gonna be rich from her trauma that he massively contributed to. And now she is left to pick up the broken pieces. Just as he used her to win a bet in the first movie, now he used her to write a novel👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@trinaq]

I can't believe that decent shows like "American Vandal", "Sense8", "Glow" and "One Day at a Time" all got cancelled early, yet this franchise inexplicably receives FOUR movies?! 🤯

[@gabiluch87]

FIVE movies, freaking FIVE movies

[@deereads8104]

I'm still not over Sense8 getting cancelled

[@plateofpasta835]

IM STILL SAD ABOUT AMERICAN VANDAL BRUH

[@thxwanderer]

I'm still so hurt over American Vandal. 😭

[@swimawaylittlefish1542]

THANK YOUUUU ToT they cancelled I am not okay with this and Anne with an E but RIVERDALEEE GETS A 5TH SEASON???? Does anyone have some kind of petition T^T

[@curlyhairblacklilacs]

Somewhere there is a 12-year-old girl who watches this movie, gushes, and thinks that toxic boys can be changed through love. Hell, I’m a 28-year-old and I just *really* learned this lesson. In the words of Aunt Kennie… “HOUDINI!” Get outta there!

[@spiderjerusalem3555]

it's the way he's immediately like "aight i'm doing better lemme exploit my ex's trauma (that i'm partially responsible for) real quick" for me

[@nicholasrodinos4701]

This whole movie series feels like a bet between writers to see how much abuse Hardin can put Tess through, without physically assaulting her.

[@pixiestxNyomouf]

This movie is also a psa of different types of domestic abuse.

[@almostatami]

Ned's cheating scandal just proved to me that I'm not actually over "internet drama". I will still analyze that shit if its meaty enough and boy is his story a feast. My heart goes out to his wife and their kids cause damn.

[@caithenry8429]

Right?! I never realized I was so interested in internet drama until this Monday when it all went to hell. I really hope Ariel stays strong but I am worried she will stay with Ned for their brand image. She is far too good for him

[@stellarae8257]

@@caithenry8429 I doubt she’d stay for that reason. He cheated on her, that brand image is already gone. If she chooses to stay it’ll probably be bc she thinks it’s what is best for her kids. It’s also just hard to immediately turn away from a man you’ve been with for over a decade.

[@TasjaDH]

Even as a professional, you can't save someone you know. Especially if that person is not set on saving themselves. You can't help someone who does not wanna get help.

[@TheJelske]

I WOULD SELL MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR YOU TO DO A NED APRIL VIDEO. Idc if it’s retelling the tea or just your thoughts or just you sitting laughing for 20 minutes I NEED this.

[@kelzagarcia8112]

genuinely

[@JenniferBrigitteOpticalVortex]

Same!

[@Lmab-qs1kr]

Ong

[@ladyinblue1552]

Amen.

[@sleepysaiken3984]

This series would make a GREAT horror movie, everything about Hardin being an actual toxic and manipulative stalker actually sent chills down my spine, which i guess says a lot about this movie as a whole 🙃

[@soulchild05]

Girl listen I know a few people that used to work for Buzzfeed and we've all been acting up in the group chat. So much mess over that Try Guys story 😭

[@agalo3631]

Tell us more!!

[@curlycurl8326]

Spill 👀

[@malvikasachdeva8762]

^^^^

[@eknar]

we need to know 👀

[@catherinecampbell1089]

Please spill

[@LisaFevral]

I think it's extremely messed up to leave friends alone ANYWHERE if you came together. like don't go together at all in that case

[@sarascarpati887]

Hi!

[@brittneyb.9054]

We need to see ALL of Kennie's Squishmallows 💁🏿‍♀️

[@bridget3289]

yesss she needs to make a video and tell us their names

[@blueismylove3128]

She gonna start me on my addiction. I'm so tempted 😫😫

[@aidasalazar9702]

​@@blueismylove3128 I've searched for them online for the past weeks and I'm straining myself from getting one because I need to be responsible with my money 😭.

[@blueismylove3128]

@@aidasalazar9702 Stay strong Aiden, stay strong. We can do this ✊✊

[@littlemsterious991]

he was gonna PUBLISH her TRAUMA without even TELLING HER????? i'm not sure i've ever hated a character as much as i hate this man. there are a select few characters that i only just _hate_ but i *_hate_* hardin scott

[@mfuentes4961]

It still blows my mind that what began as a shitty One Direction/Harry Styles fan fic is now a multiple movie franchise.

[@ablindinglightthatnolonger8379]

Yah ikr! Like they could have at least chosen a better one 😂

[@nataliyanabakova7419]

proof you can do absolutely anything if you just believe in yourself

[@calmandfree]

I remember my classmates reading it with so much delight, it was like the 'it' book on Wattpad for a while, and when I asked about it and they gave me the synopsis the first thing that came into my 15-year-old mind was "This book sounds stressful."

[@calmandfree]

@@ablindinglightthatnolonger8379 Like😂😂, of all the books on Wattpad, this was the one that caught your fancy?

[@loveholic580]

@@calmandfree f

[@sweetie_babie]

Can I just say, if that were to actually happen with a book, like it being sold with her whole name and life in it, she could sue him. He literally doesn't have the rights to the story. If you wrote a story like that you'd have to change the names and likenesses of people, or get their consent in writing. Since he did neither, the publishing house would be liable and so would he.

[@Fallenemiko]

The whole “my wife” thing was explained by people in the industry, it was basically his Brand ™, like his work persona. It makes sense bc like Keith loves his wife, but always calls her Becky, meanwhile Ned always just said “my wife”.

[@caithenry8429]

Right?? Even with the way he would word it put emphasis on him (I love my wife) so it was a mix of seeming like a good man/husband and public love bombing Ariel to rope her in to their eventual Target brand deals, their podcast under Fulmer Media, the cookbooks, etc. He really sold that persona while being an actual POS. It's been a while since celebrity drama has made me this angry

[@theshunnedBandersnatch]

I know it was his brand but my god was it annoying. Ned was one of the main reasons I stopped watched the Try Guys tbh.

[@angelicvega7040]

Tbh when I used to watch Try Guys back in the buzzfeed days and a little bit after, I had no idea what his wife’s name was because he just kept referring to her as just, “my wife” so that was all I picked up.

[@amoxcillicpsychosis2967]

I see it as Keith being more in love with his wife, simply because he refers to her by name and by extension he realizes she is her own person and meant to be respected. Whereas with Ned, he only thinks of her as "my wife" and not her own person to be loved and respected.

[@spookiBB]

This seems to be a thing with narcissists and similar types like Ned. People aren't individuals to them, and these people only matter in relation to them. Outside of whatever the relationship is (family, romantic, friends, etc) they don't matter. Take note of some of the more controlling or narcissistic types and how they usually refer to the people close to them (plus how often they do it, bc it's not weird to call someone your partner, but if that's the only way you talk about them and it's constant, beware)

[@mikchimin]

Thanks for bringing up the fact that it isn't our job to fix the self-hatred of others Kennie. I wasted the better part of my teenage years trying to fix people, and it put me in a bad spot regarding my own mental health. I hope your words broke through to someone, so they didn't have to go through the things I did. It doesn't matter if you're in a platonic or romantic relationship with someone. If they are in that state, and don't want to change, they won't, and instead of you helping them, they will drag you down. I'm all for helping those who are down. But sometimes it's too much.

[@JstyWhoo]

“It’s not all about you” No my dude this book literally is ALL about ME.

[@hvnterly8388]

Idk about Don’t worry Darling drama, but my one worthwhile takeaway is that clip of Harry Styles in an interview and he says “What I like about the movie, is that it’s like a movie,” and you get to watch the light leave Chris Pine’s eyes as he fights whatever thoughts are raging within him.

[@blueoblivionx]

Ughh man. The guy who hates himself so much that he starts abusing you is TOO real. I went through that shit and it is the worst.

[@fiishbones3796]

if a person wrote a book with my full legal name and private issues in it WITHOUT MY CONSENT,, yeah they'd have to die

[@medea__witchhh]

the fucking audacity of that man i swear

[@quackquack5844]

it's a damn lawsuit for me

[@BleachBlue04]

SPOILER WARNING FOR THE VID: You already know they’ll end up together but after everything that happened to Tessa, him using her trauma as a ladder to make his life great is the most angering thing about this whole series and will confirm how the author really shouldn’t be celebrated. This is some deep level abuse.

[@flowersandcheesecake1710]

Yeah when you love someone you want the best for them in any area you can help them in But this sh*t trying to pass off as romance is just disgusting and infuriating it honestly doesn’t feel like Hardin loves Tessa and is attracted to her and doesn’t love her a person (cuz he would be more respectful) and treats her more like an object of affection

[@BleachBlue04]

@@flowersandcheesecake1710 exactly!! I haven’t seen a single one of these movies in full but out of the 10+ review vids I’ve seen like Kennie’s, not a single moment I’ve seen of the movie makes me think he actually loves her. It’s just lust. That’s it.

[@nont18411]

His logic is “chaos is a ladder”😅

[@MiracleMadkins]

I went from shock to still in shock to taken a back to acceptance to literally incredibly disappointed with Ned. He had it all, a wife and family, a job that brought joy with his best friends, money, a sense of ownership and power of his career. The audacity he had to do this to Ariel. Even if they were having problems we are not aware of, how stupid can you be, while also be the “head of HR”, have a relationship with your employee??? He threw ALL of into an active volcano. Im also sad because idk if Ariel is going to leave the “you can sit with us podcast”. It’s in my rotation every Tuesday 😢.

[@Monochrome_11]

not him being the "head of HR" of the compeny 😂🤣

[@MiracleMadkins]

@@tiffanykim2773 you’re not teaching me anything new, I know all that it’s still just a surprise from me being a fan of them and their content. And girl I can be sad if someone I enjoy listening to is leaving. Of course I wish her the best.

[@savybeanie]

I am too😭

[@sweetytweety1671]

@@tiffanykim2773 ......

[@chichilafemme6336]

When someone tells you they are too fucked up, we’re too different, I’m too bad for you, you’re too good for me etc. You listen to them, they telling on themselves, you believe them and run mhm.

[@chaleron7410]

I don't listen. I don't listen😢

[@yourannoyinggoose]

What I find the most concerning is not this Series exists and is so toxic; not that Hardin did all this over the movies and still got Tessa to want him; not that Hardin wrote down all this shit down as a way to have thearpy and sold it as a book *AGAINST* Tessa's consent, but the most concerning thing to me is that there are going to be gurlies that look at this toxic mess and think and say: "I wish I had a Hardin. I wish I was Tessa". And I do know that for most of them this is wish fufillment, *BUT* there is a nugget of truth in that these girls will see these toxic traits in their future romantic/sexual partners and not pull the plug, but INSTEAD continue those relationships. That's what I find so damning about these movies. Is that there are young people who subconsicously wish this on themeselves and THEY NEED HELP. Because girl that was me.

[@isaa1782]

I think that's the problem with books/movies like these. It's fine to show and discuss toxic relationships, but it's not okay to romanticize them. Like there are books/movies about this topic that will never ever make you feel like "yup that's what I want". And then there's After...

[@igbaduneunhye6039]

Last year I was roomates with girls who liked hardin and his voice. I couldn't believe it, like full on shook

[@rosettastarlight6239]

This is late, but since I'm rewatching your videos on this series, is it weird to say I like how despite how much you (rightfully so) shit on Hardin, you still seem to sympathize with his issues and why he's like that but still emphasize that at some point, it isn't your trauma, it's you just being an asshole and you have to learn to work on yourself instead of taking it out on others and that it's not other's responsibility to heal you

[@_vexilee]

I love your love for the Try Guys mess - PLEASE do a whole video on it, if you want, because I would eat that UP

[@lifewithluci1764]

This!!!

[@adeleaslan8182]

The fact that him burning the house down was the most justified/ understandable thing he's done in this entire franchise is a TESTAMENT to what this man is

[@MrsNgabire]

The way I screamed when you brought up the Try Guys!! I've been way too invested in this drama and seeing you talk about it makes me feel a little better about how much I'm enjoying it lol (especially as a black woman).. you should definitely make a video about it cause I feel the same way - I'd be shocked and/or upset if it were Eugene or Keith, not surprised at all that it was Ned.

[@medea__witchhh]

fr the apathy i felt about ned but hoping the best for ariel and everyone who's job was involved omg it must b so messy

[@MrsNgabire]

@@medea__witchhh yeah, much messier than anything I would've expected from the Try Guys

[@-_-0.0-_-]

most unrealistic thing is the bidding war over that milquetoast book. He had to be related to someone in the publishing industry or something

[@kassakakasan8969]

Well isn’t his real dad has something to do with publishing according to the previous movie?

[@scolionophobia9507]

The fact that we lowered the standards to hell and hardin can't even reach that says something about our loving hero P.s. he was much worse in the book

[@MTdaBlacking]

How much worse was he? 🤨

[@alexlu_]

@@MTdaBlacking in amandathejedi’s video she includes sections from the book that show more of him being terrible

[@scolionophobia9507]

@@MTdaBlacking you can watch Amanda's videos, she discusses the most problematic parts or Daria's (fulloflit) "I read the entire after series so you don't have to" rant video. But a few things; in the book the bet was to take Tessa's virginity and he showed the bloody sheets and used condom to his friends. In AWC we find out that he played these games back in London, there was a girl named Natalie who slept with Hardin and he recorded it without her consent or knowledge, then it went viral, Natalie lost her scholarship and her parents kicked her out of their home, when she went to Hardin for help he basically slammed the door into her face, he never felt bad about it until he imagined Tessa in that position (sick in the head much?) In AWF when Tessa is trying to find an apartment in Seattle, Hardin answers her phone when the estate agent calls her back and he makes up awful stories about Tessa being an unreliable person and that she was kicked out from several places because she didn't pay and trashed the apartments. And when they have sex in the hot tub he accuses her of seducing him and trying to get pregnant (he forgot about protection) so that he'd go to Seattle with her. There's also a part when Tessa was drugged and sexually assaulted, and Hardin's biggest concern about the whole situation was that he is the only one who can touch her, she's his, no one else's. In AEH when she tells him she can't get pregnant, he makes it about himself and gets mad at Tessa for taking the opportunity away of him of being a father and of course there is the whole writing a book about their relationship and publishing it without her consent. Wow, this is a long ass comment 😂

[@shinzouwosasageyo2785]

I laughed too much at this because his goddamn name is Hero😭

[@salem-01]

@@alexlu_ oh fuck I need to watch that. I love her channel and I can’t wait to see her address this absolute mess

[@Letsjustnot9597]

Kennie’s Hardin impressions will never not be funny. Every time it makes me convulse in laughter I swear- 💀✋ It’s the one thing I’ll miss when the After series ends.

[@xLiLlyx98]

Convouse in loooofter

[@zombieedrea]

HAHHHHDIN

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

FOOKIN' TREVA!

[@dreamer9375]

@@xLiLlyx98Oh dear god😂😂

[@dreamer9375]

@@ThexDynastxQueen 😂😂😂

[@annikam.baldwin776]

If they do create Hardin and Tessa as a couple to end the series, I'm just going to pretend this was the end and Tessa finally got happiness.

[@invincibleTiger9954]

Sadly I hate to break it to you, but in the last movie they marry and have kids which disgusts me to no end.

[@sabrinamassastein]

I think these movies are the equivalent to relationship horror. The same way some people like watching slasher flicks, knowing how awful an actual murderer is... Some people like watching After, knowing how toxic Hardin is.

[@jayneb6053]

Is it the door for a new gendre ?

[@yea0000]

nah i think some people just don’t know what a healthy relationship should be and idolize hardin & tessa’s bc of the angst & drama

[@yea0000]

but also maybe ur right bc literally how do they release movies that r like this 💀

[@abbyg5794]

but at the same time, i think people (young girls especially) genuinely think that obsession=love no matter the behavior, and fantasize about having someone like hardin in their own lives….

[@ashyroy9454]

@@abbyg5794 same people who read killing stalker and think it is romantic. Although with "after" movies author also thought that she was writing romance or something

[@awesomegirlkyky]

16:29 Please I can't breathe! When she said "f*ck you", I FELT THAT. With her whole chest. Bless you for this amazing video omg. This and the No Other Woman video are gold.

[@symwinter]

I’m happy to see you talking about this movie, not because I’m interested in this series but to hear you mimic Hardin’s British accent. It’s truly a highlight.

[@shriyamakeupvanity9166]

Kennie screaming in rage everytime hardin does something terrible has me dying 😭😭😭

[@shanettequao9043]

This series just proves that you can write anything and it may be a Netflix show one day

[@afrofrench-american2002]

As long as it's 95% smut then yeah

[@novatalking]

The little story about being alone definitely resonated with me. Back in uni, I went out with a friend and met with his friends (two of whom I'd only met once before, the rest I didn't know) and he left me, I had to tipsily get back to my dorm and I was FURIOUS at him

[@thisgirl7024]

I have a confession, I’ve never seen any movies in this series (this and 355 days series) and I have zero intention to do so, yet I tune in every video just because I love listening to Kennie’s coverage of it 😂😂

[@catherines2544]

Me too. I love the way kennie talks about relationships

[@_Celine_26]

same

[@honeybeerose4108]

I whole ass choked on my horribly made quesadilla when I heard he WROTE A BOOK USING HER WHOLE ASS GOVERNMENT NAME LITERALLY ARCHIVING EVERY EVENT THAT HAPPENED- That’s beyond creepy, that… that is just unhinged

[@Charlie_Wolfe]

Stories like Ned make me wonder if I should keep walking around wondering if the next person I put my trust in is gonna cheat on me and be paranoid the whole relationship…or believe life is too short and take the chance

[@ayannabranchcomb7535]

Take the chance, you gonna stress yourself out being paranoid and get premature wrinkles 😂

[@zaink.7243]

lol hopefully you find the rare cis guy who has beaten the way they were socialized. (if you're into guys idk)

[@KotinChronicles]

Risk it all bebe!

[@Charlie_Wolfe]

@@ayannabranchcomb7535 ugh so true!

[@Charlie_Wolfe]

@@KotinChronicles 💜

[@nataliyanabakova7419]

tessa spends a lot of time saying shit like "you're better than this!" even though he literally is not. he has never once showed that he is "better than this"

[@parkerleewilliams4305]

28:28 you know Kennie was tired of this when the *bleep* sound was not in effect🤣😅💀

[@gravyall0va]

😭😭😭🤣

[@MzLilyPooh]

This is the first After movie that finally gives a close enough depiction of how toxic "Hardin" was in the Wattpad series (he was still worst on Wattpad). None of the other films in the series do this terrible character justice. I feel the same amount of confusion and anger as I did nearly 10 years ago. Finally.

[@nunyo9441]

I feel like these movies could be used for psychology students for personality disorder diagnostics practice. Like "is Hardin a sociopath, psychopath, a narcissist or a combination of the aforementioned?" Kahoot style.

[@mangoslormpy7618]

I'm just imagining the kahoot music XD

[@zombieedrea]

No joke, I read the first book before the first movie came out and, just for funsies, I pulled up a list of signs that a partner is emotionally abusive cuz I wanted to see if Hardin was as bad as people were saying. He literally checked ALL OF THEM. So I pulled up another list from a different website. He checked all of those too. 💀 That's when I knew we as a society were never going to know peace again.

[@bananatiergod]

I'd go more for BPD if I'm being honest. His attachment issues, mood swings, paranoia that everyone's his enemy and fits of uncontrollable rage tick most of the boxes on that list.

[@elinasaulite4328]

Hardin's book is, hands down, the most selfish thing he's done... you could argue he didn't know any better when he was on his toxic daddy-issue mommy-issue spiral but this time Tess straight up tells him to not publish it and he still does 😂 like, if it was a sentimental story, publish it in, like, ten copies and give it to ppl you love or sth... not unleash it onto the world

[@heavenlychill2918]

When I heard that Ned was a Frat guy in college, I just knew he didn’t care about his wife 😩😩

[@caithenry8429]

ANY time he was drunk on camera gave me the ick from the sheer amount of frat energy he can release

[@jennyfrostholler880]

I've been sick for over a month now and all doctors don't know what's exactly wrong with my body, so I've been laying in bed a lot and I'm so grateful for your videos I've been either watching them or listening to them on Spotify. So messy stories like these are so entertaining especially with your narration, it's just so damn funny.I thank you a lot for being you and I bless your soul 💕

[@realafah]

If you were genuinely the only person happy when she left him in that scene, then that is deeply worrying.

[@jeilee3860]

Imagine basically torturing a girl for months (because I don’t think it’s been years in universe) and being either the cause or proximate cause of a lot of her pain since you’ve met (I’m not saying Tessa and other factors didn’t contribute but Hardin was the biggest one for sure). Then finally going on a healing journey after she dumps your ass, moves to the other side of the country, starts a new school, and gives up the internship of a lifetime to be away from you. Just for you to write a book about the trauma you inflicted or caused in her life without telling her and for that book to become wildly successful. And you have to never to say not everything is about her?! Hardin can literally choke. This movie should’ve just been the end no to be continued just over and done.

[@plaguedoctor3489]

Was doing laundry when the part about what the journal was came up. Literally slapped my bed in frustrated amazement. Like… wow…. What the hell.

[@pixiestxNyomouf]

PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THE NED AFFAIR!! I FEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY, PPL DO SHITTY THINGS BUT SOMETHING ABOUT THIS HAS ME INTHRALLED! MAKE THE VIDEO MAMA

[@Raine204]

This whole series should be applauded for how it started off as a horrible Harry Styles fanfic with questionable acting to the beginnings of a thriller/slasher movie with either Tessa or Hardin being the killer!!

[@shhimreading906]

petition for kennie to reenact all the most dramatic scenes between hardin and tessa (playing both characters and any other characters who might be there, ofc)

[@julietteangeli]

It would be amazing to see her do this as a collab with Jamie French!

[@bernardrichards9247]

The *only* reason I want this franchise to continue is for more of your videos on the subject ❤sorry for the continued torture!💋

[@maryy.angell]

the real question is… WHERE ARE THEY GETTING THE MONEY FOR THIS MOVIE?! and where can i get some?

[@KrazyKatLady]

Kennie describing Hardin throwing a fit sends me 💀💀

[@napajwolf13]

I will NEVER get sick of Kennie’s Hardin voice.

[@TallulahChanel]

You know what, I sit at my desk everyday making notes and drafts for fanfictions and my novel in progress, and I think there's no way anyone would take me seriously as a writer. And every week I watch Bad Movies and A Beat and just in awe that these people got movie deals for these trash stories. Thank you Kennie for helping me feel confident

[@anunaskedforopinion]

After is almost my new Fifty Shades: I'd never care enough to watch it myself, but it's my favorite thing to hear other people tear apart.🙂☕️

[@beautyandtheoffbeats]

It’s PG-13 Fifty Shades of Grey

[@flowersandcheesecake1710]

A somehow worse Fifty Shades of Grey

[@Tareltonlives]

Less porn, more abuse!