There are also various complicated subplots-all poorly veiled attempts to lurch the otherwise static plot forward. Repeat that cycle four times in every book, sprinkle in increasing familial tensions, and you have the first four movies of the After series. Thus begins an endless on-again-off-again obsessive relationship: have sex, lie, expose said lie, fight, break up, and have make-up sex. Hardin wears all black, always looks angry, and has never been rejected by a woman until Tessa refuses to kiss him in an unfriendly game of Truth or Dare. Tessa Scott (Josephine Langford) is a naive college freshman with no intention of rocking the boat however, soon after arriving at Washington Central University, her more experienced roommate introduces her to the mysterious Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin)-read: That’s the Harry Styles. It was absurd.īut first, let’s go over the premise of the first installment in the sexy saga. The acting, the casting, the costumes, the writing, the attention to detail-every single aspect failed to produce any sense of verisimilitude. I became so attached to these movies not because they were masterpieces, but because they were completely awful. But why are people entertained by these films? The only explanation I can come up with is that hate-watching is one of the most powerful motives for consuming media. The After franchise belongs to a long line of stories that have fallen down the fanfiction-to-smutty-movie pipeline made popular by the likes of Fifty Shades of Grey and The Kissing Booth. The first movie in the franchise was released on Netflix and three more followed- After We Collided (2020), After We Fell (2021), and After Ever Happy (2022). ![]() Subsequent popularity saw the work picked up by publishing house Gallery Books, where Todd continued to publish four follow-up novels. And yet, we ate it up.Īfter (2019) first began as Harry Styles fanfiction published to Wattpad in 2013 by Anna Todd. What we witnessed was a plot disaster propped up by toxic masculinity and romanticization of abusive relationships, and absolutely no continuity-even the casting wasn’t consistent. One cursed weekend last February, my friends and I made a life-altering decision: to marathon the After movies.
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