One thing that we can really admire and get behind in the vertical that tries to be different, but is somewhat familiar and therefore you can find it to be an easy watch. How To Tame The Tycoon is an enemies to lovers micro-drama featuring Christine Schlehuber and Thomas Miller. It’s trying to be different, but the experienced vertical watcher can see it has the tropes that are familiar, therefore making it recognizable. Is it great? No. Is it good? Yes.
How To Tame The Tycoon is about an entitled heir, Charles Walton, who has obviously never learned what consequences or a punishment are. Charles is reluctantly paired with his sharp, scholarship-student classmate, Andrea, as a tutor, only to find his privilege challenged and his heart undone by her wit and integrity.
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It is worth noting that this is Thomas Miller’s first vertical. Thomas plays Charles Walton and that character is absolutely miserable. He’s spoiled and when his grandmother saddles him with a tutor – I had to laugh. You could tell he was mad and was going to do everything that he could to get rid of Andrea.
Here’s the funny thing though, it’s crazy how feelings can change when you don’t even realize that things are changing. That’s the best kind of love – the love that is built on trust and growth. The love that starts as friendship and grows from there. You just have to allow it in and communicate.
The issue is that they don’t communicate and Andrea leaves their camp or whatever you would like to call it. The two loose touch, but Charles is looking for her. His love for Andrea hasn’t died.
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Now, I get that people can say a lot of things about verticals but one of my favorite things about them is the loyalty that some characters have when it comes to love. Sure, some characters have no loyalty, but when they do, they do. Charles was so in love with Andrea that he’s spent years seatching for her.
They had made plans to go to Harvard together – but she wasn’t there. He knew that something was happening but didn’t know what it was. He didn’t have answers and answers are what he needs.
The person that did know where she was all of the time was Noah, a boy that they went to camp with and who is Charles political rival. Noah has long like Andrea and doesn’t like seeing here around Charles.
Andrea is wearing of Charles and being back in his life. She’s faking a relationship with him – which he did convince her he needed her to do. But even with that she’s trying to keep her distance because of when he left her at the dance.
Now, there is a lot of confusion when it comes to their relationship and that could easily be fixed with communication. She thought he was leaving her, and didn’t know his Grandma was in the hospital.
Where his Grandma may like Andrea, Charles Mom makes sure that Andrea knows that she is not liked.
What Andrea doesn’t realize is that in politics there are a lot of things that you can not do. She thinks that when she is hugging Noah in public – she’s just hugging a friend. But it’s spun that she’s cheating amongst a lot of other things. Charles has her back, but others consider her more of a liability at this point.
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What I loved about this was that it didn’t matter what the fallout or what others thought. All that mattered was the love that was there. Andrea had made an impression on both Noah and Charles – but ultimately she was able to find it in her heart to hear Charles out and realize that with him is where she wants to be.
Charles ends up winning the election and her heart.
How To Tame The Tycoon we will give some grace, because it was ambitious for what it was and Miller didn’t do a horrible job for his first vertical. He actually pretty much carried it.
That’s saying something.
