"The right woman" and the only woman who can change a man is a therapist

Here's my theory, Kennie: Since this book/movie is from the man's POV, Drew is basically an unreliable narrator. Thus anything we see here is occurring because he says that's what is happening in the story. For all we know, Kate ended up with Billy and they got married and lived happily ever after while Drew ended up alone and heartbroken. However, as a rich, narcissist who's used to getting everything he wants, he'll never admit to what truly happened, thus this movie :-)

I can never tell if the heating pad is doing anything, or the burning pain is just distracting from the other pains

Kennie’s undying loyalty to Passionflix despite how much it annoys her is one of the most entertaining love stories of the decade 😂

I like how tangled (cartoon) is described as “the bitch with the bundles” lmao

lmaoooooo, when Drew's scrolling Tinder for matches, one of the potential matches is Tosca, as in Tosca Musk (the CEO of Passionflix), it might even be her picture too! She just had to get that cameo in, acting like she's Stan Lee 🤣🤣

“He is not sick he is…” Riddled with herpes? “Heartbroken” that is definitely not what I had in mind there

“He looks kinda like a hamster with intelligence like a hamster with a lot to say” is by far the funniest thing I have heard today so thank you for that

I don't mind romance in books that in real life would be horrific, because I'm projecting my fantasy onto this fictional character so no one is getting hurt. But when that book is made into a movie the main characters is their own person and their emotions becomes three dimensional. So when they say "no" and that isn't respected you are sitting there helpless, watching someone else being abused.

The thing is, “I’m not gonna be a better person until I meet that person that’s going to make me wanna be better” is the mentality that a lot of individuals, men, women, and non-gender conforming individuals adopt.

omg Kennie I was an extra in this movie for weeks and just from hearing the dialogue in these scenes I knew it would be perfect for you to review!!! 😭

This movie sounds like what Pick Up Artists think is gonna happen every time they treat a woman like crap. "naw see, negging is the bait. The candle-lit dinner is to throw her off balance. She thinks she knows you! Then you hit her with the curve ball! She'll fall INSTANTLY IN LOVE." Yes. For no reason. When she has a grocery list of reasons why you suck and she should run? Uh huh. Instantly in love. Every time.

"sometimes a guy can't become a man until he meets the right woman" kennie and me literally made the same exasperated face at that moment. i felt like we were besties lol

As a Polish woman, we absolutely did not ask for 365 Days, just the same as Americans did not ask for Fifty Shades. Who thought any of those were a good idea?

As someone who went to business school, there are two types of finance guys -> the smart ones who know that if they work in a firm for a few years they can make a couple hundred grand and bounce... and the douchebags like Drew. Avoid the Drews!! They will be wearing Patagonia vests, really easy to spot

I see your “Idle hands are the devil’s fleshlights” shirt and now all I truly want is for you and Jen from Fundie Fridays to review a bad religious film together

If any guy kept harassing me to love him after telling him no, doing weird serial killer feeling shit, and just being an abusive douche I’d just get a restraining order, but nooooo in romance novels common decency and boundaries don’t exists

In the 2nd book she gets pregnant and books appointment to a female doctor friend who gets mentioned by her surname which ofcourse drew thinks of it as her cheating with a guy behind his back and when he sees Kate with the husband of the doctor, he confirms that she's cheating. Then when Kate comes to appartment to tell about the pregnancy he has already hired a stripper, was a getting lap dance meanwhile getting super drunk and acted like a jerk. Ofcourse Kate didn't tell him about her pregnancy and goes to her home town to her mom's house.Kate also I think quits her job without any notice thinking his family will obviously side with drew. And after all the miscommunication again they end up together, admittedly both set of parents are pissed with their miscommunication regardless. Meanwhile when they're separated, Drew was glad he didn't technically cheat bcoz his dick didn't work since the stripper wasn't Kate. And Kate and Billy kissed each other while Billy was comforting her but she just realised she's strong enough to be a single mom. That's the shit show of 2nd book.

"The personification of a yeast infection" I'll use that 🤣

This whole story line has strong "That random 7.5 stars office shoujo/ josei/ smut manga/manhwa with the whole pack of cliches (enemies to lovers,boss x employee, jealousy), misuderstandings and abusive moments that you find on the 5th page on a Mangago tag" energy.

he's only met ONE woman who didn't want to sleep with him? has he never met a lesbian 😭 p.s. shoutout to my fellow sapphics

Yes, natural hair Kennie! The edges are thriving 😍

Why do they always pick the most generic looking actors for these roles? You’re trying to tell me this Peter Pan looking boy gets 🐱 ? My 🐱 said: 😒🤐

I’m legitimately gonna start using “dropping eggs” as a euphemism for my period. Gold.

I feel like Hello Fresh is a perfect sponsor for Kennie because she makes a lot of content on becoming/being an adult. As a person who recently started cooking all my meals I'm always curious to hear her food opinions. They should sponsor every time 😊

Passionflix we attempt to tell the world what romance is like in the most unrealistic ways.

When I first saw the male lead, I had to squint really hard because in my head, I was thinking "where have I seen this man before..." And then it clicked. He's Icarly's new Boyfriend in the reboot show!

This is every woman’s nightmare!!! Having the boss’ son obsessively try to “court” you? I would quit and call the police bro

I would love to meet the Professor if possible. She sounds like an exceptional and intellectual human. Edit: This is an insult to enemies to lovers! Burn it!

As a queer romance author, it's so frustrating that toxic and misogynistic romance is the most visible part of the genre, to the point that a lot of people think that that is all romance novels have to offer. There are so many wonderful books out there that explore consent, healthy communication, discovery of sexual and gender identity, and show that people outside the white/cis/het/skinny/able-bodied "ideal" can still be desired and feel desire themselves. It's such an empowering genre for me, and I wish more people could see the good books that exist instead of getting bogged down by the bad. If any of y'all are looking for romance recs, the authors Talia Hibbert, Alexis Hall, and Casey McQuiston are some of my favorites.

Dang! I was hoping this would be a passionflix sequel to the disney Tangled

30:39 why did I think he was pregnant...now an mpreg twist would have livened things up a little ngl

I think he accused her of trying to trap him, said some unforgivable nonsense and threw her out when she got pregnant in the 2nd book. I read this yeeeeears ago so not sure

"I love you, man who has done nothing but ignore my boundaries for the entire time that we've known one another except for the five minutes after my fiance broke up with me in which I gave you the time of day. If you ever hurt me, I'll probably die."

Someone really needs to write a whole fanfic about passion flix and Kennie. I would pay money to read that. 😭✋

When I heard the “I don’t like to ride the same roller coaster twice” line, I legit died laughing. Because this dude is basically Wil Wheaton’s character from the Guild but, like, played straight? I just… I have no words.

It was a cold morning, Kennie was feeling loungey and relaxed as she prepared her hello fresh meal kit, the soft lull of the 365 Days : This day movie post credits hummed across the room as she sighed over her lemon chicken dish. A low rumble of thunder rang in the distance, as the rains grew louder, the Tv flickered switching to passionflix. "That's weird." She thought ignoring her instincts to get the hell out of there. The thunder rang louder the storm was closer now, the screen glitched, switching between atrocious film covers in garish hues of reds, greys and blacks before thunder rang again it was loud, it was right over her house this time lightning flashed lighting up the room, the tv screen goes black, it's quiet. It's dark. The lights are out. The tv flickers on. Nothing else does. On it a man of generic nature with grey orbs stares back at her. He's in a suit taping on the tv glass "Who is he?" She wonders grabbing her phone "Felix." He says, reading her mind with his mind powers coz he's a CEO vampire "Passion Felix," She calls the police. They take away her TV. Tale as old as time.

The Elon Musk connection was not expected but it seems to be my multiverse into madness.

WAIT!! I REMEMBER READING THIS BOOK AT LIKE 18-19!!! THEY MADE IT A MOVIE!!!!🥴🥴🥴🥴 LMFAO every Goodreads recommends erotic story I’ve read in 2013-2014 is being turned into a movie on passion flix I’m crying🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣they’re so bad!

“The b*tch with the bundles that lives in the tower” that hit me as a bitch with bundles that lives in an apartment building

As a Polish person, when you said "Damn you, Poland!" I felt that

This takes me back to when I would openly sit and read bodice rippers at... way too young of an age, in the Walmart book section. I'm amazed nobody said shit to me.

A professor at my own alma mater teaches a course on “trash lit” where the course materials consist of New York Times Best Sellers, bodice rippers, other kinds of erotica, “dime store” mysteries/thrillers/romance novels, and, of course- *fanfiction*. Yes. This English professor has the students who take this course read fanfiction, as required reading. It’s in the syllabus. You have no idea how much the little nerdy teenager inside me loves that, and how much I love the fact that this class even exists. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

"Personification of a yeast infection" - I am so glad I waited until after that to take a sip of my drink...

Theory (about the duality): we let things fly in text because our own minds are a safe space. The minute it goes into film and is represented by real people (i.e. not figments of imagination) its drawn into the context of the real world, and all the negative things that people who identify as female have to deal with. Then it gets icky and we wonder what's wrong with us.

24:31 “like a hamster with intelligence” stop because Kennie’s got a point😂😭😭

Maybe Kennie and Passionflix is the enemies to lovers story we’ve been waiting for

Hello Fresh be consistently giving Kennie a bag. So if you skipped the sponsor, now you know. Throw some money their way, for Mama Biscuit.

As an avid romcom reader/bookseller: If y’all are looking for fun romance books that are duo m/f povs I’d recommend: • Anything by Talia Hibbert (POC and body positive mc’s) • Anything Helen Hoang (Also POC mains) • Tessa Bailey (If you want some ANGST and STEAM WITHCHO ROMANCE OMG) • And Beth O’Leary (her stuff leans more on the contemporary spectrum but still very sweet with wry British humour) Happy Reading Romcom lovies! 😊✨

I have stage 4 Endometriosis, and had to get a hysterectomy when I was 25. I don't miss bleeding, but I still have all the damn pain😶 surgery #11 is coming up soon tho

one musk wants to buy twitter to bring the orange man back and the other musk created this trash of a film studio that somehow gets people talking. the musky scent never fails

Forgiveness doesn't necessarily mean rekindle a romantic relationship. You can and should forgive even without apology. Her choosing to get back with him was a separate decision from forgiveness.

Okay, but anyone else waiting for that passionflix Wicked sequel? I wanna hear Kennie roast some more bad wigs and bad CGI 🤣

You always say that stuff like that is only considered romantic cause it's in a movie, but people irl also romanticize creepy behavior. Last year a male co-worker found my home address from HR documents and sent me an expensive cheeses and wine basket. Everybody thought it was a cute gesture and that I should appreciate it and thank him! Wtf!? I'm a single woman living alone in a metropolis and should be happy a crazy older man has my address without me giving it to him? Anyway, people don't think about the other ways this could've played out, especially men.

"Dropping eggs" is one of the best ways to describe periods, I love it!

The scene of him talking to the camera is like the comedy nerd movies of the late 2000s 😂😂😂

As a black girl who grew up up in a 2 parent household with 5 brothers (seeing the inner workings of masculinity), and was obsessed with bodice rippers at like 10-16 before coming to several realizations, I would LOVE a video with the Professor.

I’ve never wanted to see the rest of a T-shirt this bad😭😭😭

39:40 "Just wipe your p**sy clean. Get tested and there's no proof that anybody's been in there." I'M DEAD. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 But seriously, this is great advice. 👍🏽

Kenny, I'm done with you. She said "Trigger Warning: Romance." Looool ain't that the truth, though.

Who else loves when Kennie posts?

Every time Kendall says “insufferable” and “off putting” take a shot!

The inevitable conclusion of BM&AB is that Kennie will write a romance novel and it will be adapted by passonflix

Manifesting the collab with the professor, she sounds very cool ✌️ Edit: the fourth wall breaks 💀 Fleabag walked so this movie could stumble down the stairs

honestly, i feel like this movie, while creepy and toxic, is definitely not boring. so ill give it props for that.

Lol, I realized I read this series too from your video. In the 2nd book, she wants to secretly find out if she's pregnant and lies about where she's going which leds him to follow her to her friend whose an OBGYN. Drew sees her hug her friends husband in the parking lot to her impromptu appointment which 'confirms' to him that she is cheating. He goes get a stripper for a lap dance at their home which she walks in on, which upsets her and makes her move back home to her parents I think. Then the rest if the film is him trying to get her back after finding out that she wasn't cheating, that she's pregnant, and promising that he'll be less reactive lol.

Please bring that professor on! I'm dying to hear your academic discussion of the romance genre!

“He looks like a hamster with intelligence. A hamster with a lot to say.” Just fucking took me out 😂

Drew looks like he should be the lead in an insurance commercial

There’s so many things to say about this movie, but I can’t get over the fact that the actress who plays Kate looks shockingly similar to Addison Rae.

I've been watching the Bad movie playlist and I noticed that these romance movies always always have the same trope: Woman exists and she isn't in love with the man or somehow in his ownership/control in general and this is somehow an issue to the man. And/or the man exists and the woman is just obsessed with him existing to the point she NEEDS him in/on her NOW or else. And we always have some kind of "ex love" thing where some other woman dumped him or broke his heart somehow to act like it adds sympathy. Twilight, After, My Teacher Obsession, Fifty Shades, Hot Gimmick, etc. all did it. Like at this point, I'm convinced some group out there has an unironic fetish for bad, toxic romances and they keep this genre of bad movies alive.

The fourth wall breaks, and the way he delivers them, dropped the phrase "Ferris MeTooLer" into my brain so now you all get to think that too

Girl, I had super horrible periods. Terrible pain and depression the while bit. Birth control really helped me.

As a queer young woman who hasn’t read romance in years…I’m 17 and I learned that romance was hilarious and alarming at a very young age from gifts like Wattpad and webtoons that weren’t on webtoon if yknow what I mean I’d love to see the professor talk about romance tropes and bodice rippers BRING HER TO US KENNY NEOW

I'm sorry they called this movie TANGLED??

Some romance novel fans have said that they're written by men under female pin names. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I haven't researched it yet.

There should only be one Tangled. It includes a horse named Maximus.

If you want content, watch Lifetime's Mother May I Sleep With Danger reboot. Just when I thought that Lifetime couldn't get any worse, they decided to dip their toes into the supernatural genre.

Strippers versus Werewolves you can still make this happen 🤣🤣🤣 it's on Tubi which is like yo side piece to passionflix

Omg girl, that tiny little red dress is NOT what you wear to a closure dinner!!!!

This movie is like somebody was watching too many Addison Rae and Stable Guy tiktoks and decided to film their fanfic

so basically this is American Psycho but sold as a romance instead of the horror it actually is...

This is why I love YOU so much as a series - it takes all those things we view as romantic and takes them to an extreme and flips them on their head. (Tho season 1 is definitely the best).

is it just me or do romance novels tend to have such a double standard when it comes to men cheating on women vs women cheating on men. She was with him for over a decade and then cheated on him! that’s heartbreaking! id be devastated and yet it’s deemed totally fine. idk if it’s cause men are expected to be less emotionally vulnerable (like they’re just supposed to get over it quicker) or something but it feels kinda sexist :/

Every time Drew pops up on screen I mistake him for a slightly more socially awkward-looking Dexter.

Dropping eggs, man I adore her in this natural hair not saying the laces aren't dope but this makes her look younger, I snorted at Alpha

"He looks like a hamster with a lot to say" Idk why Kennie, but I know exactly what you mean 🤣🤣

One of my favorite movies is Saved! starring Mandy Moore from 2004. It is a satire of religious movies. There's a lot of problematic language and attitudes, but I think it would make a good Bad Movies and A Beat episode

I... Love BMB but damn this makeup look is both cute and something I could wear every day can we get a tutorial when you're feeling better?🥺

I am loving the natural hair 😍😍. You always look good obviously but I just had to show the natural hair love

oh my god i just noticed kenny is wearing macdoesit merch in the ad roll this cross over is everything to me 😭

The wigs always look great but your natural curls are so pretty 👌🏽

Speaking about movies that feel like a horror movie, Project X is literally my nightmare.

Your wigs are fire AND your natural hair?? Icon behavior.

Does anyone else wonder what kind of romance books Kennie has actually enjoyed? I'd love to know!

I think why these movies are uncomfortable is because now we have physical faces to put to these characters. It gets a little too real for some of us and what sounds thrilling and exhilarating in written form suddenly starts to waver with actors. There's a balance you have to have when the universe is connected to ours. That being said, i like the control romance readers have with their fiction. We can go in and know what tropes to expect.

kennie wearing a fundie fridays shirt??? crossover i never knew i needed

As a romance novel afficionado, I feel compelled to say: NOT ALL ROMANCE NOVELS!!!! Carry on.

As a person who reads Emma Chase books I can already tell this is going to be a doozy-because these “movies” focus so much on the seggs that they forget that these books are actually FUNNY. They suck all the fun and irony out of the stories in their pursuit to make it “sexy” but from what men think women think is sexy. Which mean lame. (Throws kindle) To me (I’ve only read the books) Drew character was too absurd to take seriously. I typically do not enjoy movie versions of romance novels. It doesn’t work because nuance is lost-it hard to film thoughts and breaking the fourth wall is off putting. Often the characters are working through their feelings and they can’t when a device of the romance novel is that characters don’t know they are in love until the end. And unless you are good at filming feelings- it doesn’t translate to the screen.

When I read romance, I tend to lean toward dual POV ones. It feels a lot more balanced and adds more layers to the romance for me but a lot of those tropes are pretty harmful if they’re taken literally