We’re Confused Too With That Ending
Don’t know what the director and editor of My Boyfriend Gave My Virginity To His Bro are, but they really need to go back and look over this vertical and ask themselves what they were thinking. It’s not even something that I want to say, because it stars two of my favorite vertical actors – Cameron Porras and Jameson Leigh Muntz.
But let it be known that Cameron Porras and Jameson Leigh Muntz, as well as Joss Gyorkos did a great job. It’s all of the plot holes, sets, and framing choices that made me stop and question what the directors and editors were thinking.
Now excuse me while I climb up on my soapbox. There are a few things that we need to address here.
*climbs up on my soapbox*
We have to have a conversation here. One that I think we’ve had a few times. I am not understanding why it is that every single time I turn a vertical on there is either violence against women, slapping like its a greeting, or a conversation about someones virginity that is happening.
I try to look past it to a point, but at a certain point, if you’re not saying something people are going to think that is okay. It’s not.
Why is it the man is never the virgin? Why is that both aren’t virgins or why aren’t both experienced? It keeps giving that a woman needs to be a virgin in order to be deserving of someone wanting her. Don’t know who needs to hear this – but that isn’t the case. AND no matter if a woman is a virgin or not – it doesn’t matter. I don’t care if she’s slept with more than she can count on her fingers. Should I care if a man does? Cause again, don’t care.
I just want to know that we’re saying here and why it has to be addressed. I want a man to respond with his body count or saying he’s a virgin.
Second thing – someone needs to learn how to give better titles. Cause this one is horrible. Someone needs to learn how to title things, because these titles are not okay.
* steps off my soapbox *
Maya is the best friend that none of us should ever want. She lies to embarrass Emma, saying that the birthday party that she’s thrown for her is a pool party. It’s actually a formal party, making her look like she’s trying to embarrass Maya.
It’s Emma’s birthday and she’s decided that she’s going to give her boyfriend, Blake, her v-card for her birthday. Umm… why is he getting a treat girl? He’s MEAN to you. He treats you like scum. There’s also the fact that he’s cheating on you.
Maya causes an accident where Emma looses her memory and this gives Blake the chance to pass his best friend, Dylan, off as Emma’s boyfriend. This gives Blake the chance to be off with Maya. Blake makes one thing clear – do not do anything with Emma, as she’s still his.
I get that Dylan likes Emma and this is his chance to really get to be close to her. But he’s spent a long time knowing her and picking on her. He should have been honest with her because whatever they feel could have been different had their relationship not been built on a lie.
Now, I am sorry, not sorry Blake, Dylan and Maya are all so wrong. Emma lost her memory and they are all looking down on her as if she’s less than. Dylan’s known her forever, and he’s going along with this because he’s had a crush on her forever and doesn’t know how to show it. Now he’s got this opportunity to do just that.
Maybe I am the only person wondering how he thinks that this is okay. Blake and Dylan both are messing with Emma’s life based off of a lie.
It’s kinda crazy to me how I can not stand some of the things that happen in verticals and yet I watch them. Blake and Dylan are both neglecting Emma’s informed consent. She is trusting in those around her versus really finding the truth. What we do learn quickly is that both boys don’t really know her. They know the parts of her that she lets them know. That’s kinda both scary and not a bad thing.
*sorry not sorry*
It’s scary because no one is telling her and you have to wonder what kind of people would take advantage of that. Yes, I get that it’s a show, but if someone has amnesia and they are lying to her – what kind of people are these characters.
With the popularity of vertical dramas, I do think that there is something that needs to be looked at when it comes to friendships and consent. There has to be someone to trust. But then again main characters need to be trustworthy too.
While the first half of the series is strong, the back half is so abrupt and filled with so many plot holes and so many things introduced that are never answered. I am not sure if it was written in that way, but if it was, then we have a bigger problem.
For instance in the show, Emma is pregnant and it’s never addressed with the father. But then that ending and just feels so abrupt and badly done.
The hard part of this is that Cameron Porras and Jameson Leigh Muntz deliver performances that make you like their characters so much, even when you are disliking the way that things are turning out and the holes that were left with the ending.
If it wasn’t for the last 15-20 episodes, the title being misleading, and the bad editing – I would have given it a better review. But unfortunately, I could have gone without this one.
