The Perfect Spiral Vertical Series Review: Hidden Feelings, A Quarterback, An Escalade & One Of The Best Verticals We’ve Seen

The Perfect Spiral was not something that I thought I would enjoy. As a matter of fact I hate football, so when you have any football position in the description or things that I read on a movie or entertainment series – instantly I want to turn it off. But I would have been doing myself a disservice if I would have done that, because The Perfect Spiral is one of the best vertical series that I have ever seen.

And yes, I watch enough to make that statement.

I do know this – it’s nothing like the book that it is based on – so if you’re entering this territory and thinking I need to read the book (you don’t). What you need to do is go into this knowing that you’re going to have a lot of feelings and be gifted a lot of angst.

The Perfect Spiral is a testament to the fact that women don’t have to be treated wrong in verticals to make it good. And also – sometimes it’s about the man.

Victoria Andrunik, Jared Staub, and Travis Long star in the Candy Jar series. The gist? When a studious college girl retreats to a vacation house with her lifelong best friends, two NFL star brothers, old crushes, buried resentment, and explosive chemistry collide, forcing her to choose between the man who’s always shown up and the one who never stopped wanting her.

From the opening scene when Alex walks in the door, you know that this one is going to be a love triangle. Both brothers – Knox and West have a crush on her and aren’t afraid to show it. They seem to want to keep each other away from Alex, but at every turn one of them is ending up with their face so close to Alex’s that her breathing becomes erratic. Girl is in need of some…

What I will never understand in any vertical is how the girl always needs to be a virgin. Is that supposed to make us think that someone’s love is going to be forever because someone’s virginity was taken? Not sure of the point there, but what do I know.

There is a lot of back and forth between these two brothers, until they make the deal that Alex is off limits. The two are more jealous of each other than brothers than I have ever seen. Above all else the two want to out do each other.

The issue is that they want to make choices for Alex without asking her input. This is making Alex want to scream as she wants to make her own choices and do her own thing. She cares about them both.

West is her best friend. Knox is the vein of her existence. But from the beginning you can tell that she’s going to end up with Knox. That is hard for her because in wanting to admit her feelings for Knox, she’s also going to have to let him past walls and forgive him for everything he’s done.

So what has he done? Well he’s apparently slept with every cheerleader and Victoria’s Secret model up and down the coast. She felt abandoned by Knox when he got famous. He disappeared and never showed up. That kept Alex’s walls up. Listening to Knox was the last thing that she wanted to do and also the only thing she wanted to do.

Both of them are in a space where they are going to have to be the one to let walls down and the only person that she’s going to let in is West.

Until West goes off and punches her ex – who shows up at the bar that they are at. He’s calling Alex every name in the book and West isn’t having it. But he’s also not going to let Alex get in a space where she’s in trouble.

Who does she call to come get her? Knox. He should be happy because he’s getting out of his PR date to come and get her. The two banter back and forth, but she makes a comment that gets under his skin and he admits that he was sleeping with others because he couldn’t have the one girl he wanted – her.

I get that in relationships there is going to be someone who doesn’t believe that they are worth it. Knox has listened to too much and too many people telling him that he isn’t good enough for Alex. But no one asked her and if they had – well they’d all know she loves him too.

So much so she is sure of him taking her virginity in the back of an Escalade. That is not a good first or 100th time.

Ultimately though, Victoria Andrunik and Jared Staub play their parts so well that I couldn’t help but root for them. It didn’t matter what it was, I loved them together. I loved the way that these two played off each other. I really disliked Ice & Flame (which Staub starred in but for the record I disliked the script) because it was too all over the place, so I was a little afraid of this one. But Staub pulls off that leading man/boy/actor vibe here that not all can do. Not to mention his tan – like how does one get that tan and not burnt? Regardless – Staub and Andrunik’s chemistry made me root for them.

And that ending scene – when the tears fell down his face, well I stood up and screamed, F**K BOY NO MORE!

That’s good enough for me.