Fun fact – I first came familiar with Jesse Morales from Magic Mike. Look, I am not ashamed of that, the man has moves. When I started watching verticals, I was surprised to see him acting, but I’ve come to realize he’s good at it. I shouldn’t be surprised that he’s in acting, because like most entertainers they are multi-talented.
After Divorce, I’m Spoiled By Three Brothers is the latest vertical that he stars in, opposite Anna DeRusso. The vertical is about, “Catherine Rowen spent three years as a contract wife, treated like a servant and discarded the moment her divorce papers were signed. Pregnant, humiliated, and threatened by her husband’s mistress, she hits her lowest point, until a helicopter lands, revealing the truth: she is the long-lost daughter of the powerful Lane family, rightful sister of Dominic, Connor, and Liam.”
Anna DeRusso has been making quite the name for herself starring in such verticals as After Being Marked by Alpha, My Quarterback Ex Is Begging Me Back, and The Bookworm & the Billionaire. The actress is talented – strong and vulnerable, but also relatable. She’s recently been working really diligently on her TikTok, which has been fun.
The actress stars as Catherine, who has had enough. She didn’t want it to be this way, but she’s tossed into a situations that are beyond her control.
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Catherine has done her best to be a model wife. However, her husband has been distant, rude, and quite frankly a jerk. He doesn’t deserve her. Timothy Barrett is beneath her and she doesn’t realize it. He doesn’t even touch her, and when he does, he calls her Kate.
As if that isn’t enough, on what should be one of the happiest days of her life – finding out she is pregnant – Timothy serves her with divorce papers. She’s blindsided, and he is just cruel. His inner dialogue is that he has to do it, Kate is back and she gave him her kidney.
It’s in watching verticals that I have realized why you don’t ever really know who gave you an organ. The mental guilt and feeling of needing to repay someone seems like too much.
Kate Lane returns and well, she’s just a miserable human. Timothy is easily manipulated by Kate, as well as his family. But he’s a grown man, so that is not an excuse. It’s actually just unforgivable how he acts and how he lets them demean her. He lets Kate walk in and basically shove Catherine out.
The smartest thing that Catherine does is try to keep her pregnancy a secret. She even goes as far as to eat the ultrasound so that no one finds out. And as Catherine is being forced out, what she doesn’t realize is that she has three brothers that are looking for her. They’ve found her and one is on their way.
Talk perfect timing – as Kate and Mrs. Barrett have managed to take everything from Catherine, her brother shows up with his helicopter and takes her home.
When I was a kid, I learned the meaning of you don’t know what you’ve got until its gone. Apparently Timothy didn’t learn that as a kid – he needed to wait until he treated someone like complete trash, push her out, and make her feel beneath him. He didn’t learn the meaning of being honest either. It doesn’t add to drama – it adds to stupidity of the character.
He keeps pressing Catherines buttons, trying to get her back. She doesn’t want to go back – she’s moved on. She wants to just live her life, move forward, and do the job that her brothers got her – as an interior designer. Catherine may not need to work, but she wants to. She wants to do everything that she can to never be dependent on anyone again.
Catherine keeps trying to be everything to everyone, but over the course of this vertical, she’s finding a way to be herself. She’s growing strength, standing up for herself, and not letting herself be bullied. She’s there for those that have been kind to her and to those that haven’t – she’s over their crap.
It’s a big bye to them.
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What I don’t like about this vertical is that in the middle of it – it turns into a big commercial for Shein. Verticals need to learn how to do product placement in a way that is both positive and doesn’t take away from the story. This doesn’t make me want to buy Shein – it makes me want to turn off a vertical and move on about my day.
No one knows who Catherine is to the Lane family until their gala where she is introduced. This is after an auction where her brothers buy her something, but Kate thinks it is for her. She embarrasses herself and secrets come to light, driving Timothy and Kate apart and getting her exiled by the Lane family.
While Catherine didn’t want Timothy involved with the baby, eventually she changes her mind. Her brothers manage to get along with him and treat him like part of the family. She sees all of them bonding and moving forward and tells him that her baby needs a father.
While, like most verticals we have a happy ending, I don’t think anyone can really wrap their head around how Timothy is forgiven for the crap that he pulls. Catherine is a better woman than all of us, because you know, she forgives. I never would. Like, if you don’t trust me, you don’t trust me. There is no coming back from that.
The vertical fails in one way – utilizing the three brothers. They could have made for fun interactions, excitement, and drama. But alas, someone overlooked what they had here.
Anna DeRusso and Jesse Morales are an interesting pair in this vertical – two actors that feel like different as can be and that they wouldn’t have the chemistry that they do. But chemistry they do have and they are what makes this vertical good.
Just skip through what feels like the Shein commercial that keeps occurring all the way through.
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