1.10 CandyJar - Taming The Heiress

The conversation delves into the intricate dynamics of relationships, focusing on the challenges of vulnerability and emotional barriers. It highlights the impact of past experiences on present connections, particularly how fear of hurt can lead to self-sabotage in love.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to my vertical obsession. I am your host, Meggat
and today we are talking about candy Charts. Naming of
the Heiress. This series was a two part series. The
first part, the synopsis said, a spoiled media heiress and
a struggling musician are forced into a contract marriage by
her billionaire father. Their battle of wills ignites into a

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dangerous game of loss, ambition, and unexpected love. And in
part two, this anope says, after a dramatic wedding full
of surprises, a reckless media heiress and the musician she
paid to be her husband are thrust into a storm
of betrayal, public scandal, and unexpected desire. And this stars
Isabella Ward as Kyle Moss, Ali Balle now seeing that incorrectly,

(00:49):
I'm sure as Julian Davis, Jeff Lawless as Colin James
Byrne as Miller Moss, Katrina Brian as Zana Rosea. Yeah,
I think it's Sana. And this one was on Candy
Jar And one of the things about this one that
really kind of pulled me in and struck me when
I was first watching it was that it was very

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similar to the arrangement, which is another Candy Jar series,
and sure enough when I kind of went and looked
it up on their novel at it is a spin
off to the series The Arrangement, So that is why
it is very similar to The Arrangement because it was
basically reversed. The Arrangement was a spoiled rich billionaire boy

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wants to be CEO. His father is like, no, you
got to settle down, get married, asks this hind hearted
female to marry his son so he can be CEO
and show that he can be a family man. And
that's basically the sense of this one is that media
heiress Kayle Moss is trouble. Her father wants her to

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settle down. They sees this musician who was playing outside
their pump and offers him all this money so that
way he could marry Kyle and prove that Kyle could
settle down. I wasn't far off with the whole Arrangement
part I just didn't realize that it was a spinoff
at the time. However, part one of the novel dropped,

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but we still haven't seen part two yet, and I'm like,
when are we getting the final part? Too? Dropped on
the Candy Jar, just not on their novel at So
the novel ends with the wedding, so I'm waiting for
the second part, and I'm like, I know the novel
they tend to have more in it than in the series,
so I kind of like to read them both to

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be like, okay, so what's different, what did they change
and what did they add. It's one thing about Candy
Jar I like is that I can read like the
novels that they're based on to see what has changed.
But going into this, one of the things that I
kind of noticed about this series is that Julian he
was hurt bypass love and he was left to pick

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up the pieces. He was afraid of being hurt and
screw to again by someone he loved, and instead of
trying to restart his life and do things, he instead
chose to take care of his sister who was diagnosed
with cancer. And on the other hand, you have Kyle,
who lost her mom and her dad had kind of
threw himself into work, which left Kyle alone, so she

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ends up choosing to act out instead of allowing those
hurt feelings of her dad abandoning her in a sense
and her mom dying take over. She'd rather numb that
feeling with boys, booze and other things than to actually
feel that pain. She always kind of found that easier.

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And when you throw Julian into this whole thing, he
can see that, and he's desperately trying to prove that
she doesn't need to do that, she doesn't need to
throw herself into boys, booze and drugs or any other
anything else to numb this pain, that it is okay
to feel this pain. And one of the things that

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Julian had mentioned is that he didn't think Kyle kind
of really respected herself, and he was going to help
her respect herself and he was going to be that
person to try and help her, which in a sense
helps him because he was guarded from feeling pain because
of the ex who hurt him in the past. There

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are another two that are two wounded souls who kind
of come together to heal themselves and heal each other
because of the pain in the past. Like Julian lost
his parents, his ex girlfriend who was also his bandmate
dumped him and then stole his songs, and then i'le

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her mom died, her dad threw himself into work, so
she was left alone and had no one to really
kind of comfort her that the two of them kind
of found each other with the help of her father,
and they're able to heal each other and help each
other through this pain that they've felt with and accord.
Just when the two of them are finally finding each

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other and finally getting that happiness that they both didn't
think they could, Zena returns and just lows that all
up by trying to get back with Julian and kissing
him on his wedding day, mind you, and Kyle happens
to see that, and she freaks out and reverts back

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to this whole I don't want to be hurt. People
can't hurt me, and nowhere strictly business. I don't care
for you more than just business, and Julian's over here
being like, no, I care for you, I want you.
I don't want this barrier between us, but it's hard
to crack those walls that Kyle threw up again, and

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in the end, she ends up hurting Julian both emotionally
and physically because after her wedding and after storming off,
she went to go see Colin, her ex which when
Julian finds out about that, he assumes that she slept
with him and just kind of threw away everything they
had and was ready to just up and leave. Kyle

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tried to tell him, no, that's not what happened. Nothing happened.
I just went over to talk to him and we
never did anything, but Julian wouldn't listen, so he just
wanted to go and see his sister. So Kyle suggests,
not suggested, but she said she would drive him, which
they end up into a car crash, and that's where

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the she physically hurt him, not on purpose, it was
an accident. Julian ends up losing his memory, and Kyle
takes this opportunity to think it better not tell him
about her past or about what transpired before the crash.
She kept saying she was going to tell him eventually,
but she didn't want to ruin what they were building,

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as he didn't have any memory of what had happened,
and she wanted to hold on to him like this.
But she chose it in the wrong way because she
was afraid she told him the truth, she'd lose him.
She didn't think that they could survive in a sense.
She was just so in her head that if she
told him the truth and told him what happened and

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about her past. That he was just going to leave
her like everyone else, and she did not want that.
But in the end she when he did remember, he
told her it was done, that they were done, and
she realized that she should have told him the truth
from the beginning and that she ended up losing him anyways.

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But when the truth came out that they were together
because it was a contract and that her father paid Julian,
she came out and she said, yeah, this is what
it is. It's a contract marriage. My dad paid him.
This is how we are. Julia ended up stepping up
and being like, yeah, it started out this way, but
I love Kyle and just declared his full love for

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her and was like, I'm not ready to let you go.
I don't want to give you up, and the two
of them end up back together. So even though Julian
was ready to leave, he took this whole situation and
he was like, Nope, I love you, I'm not giving
you up. We're not walking away. I'm gonna fight for us.
So as I was just saying that, I was mentioning

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all the different things between Julian and Kyle, and I said,
my little breakdown of Kil's character as the whole she's
hiding behind all this heartbreak and booze and boys and drugs,
who hide this part of herself because she doesn't want
to get hurt. She doesn't want to risk losing people
because she already lost her mom and then her dad

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pulls away and throwing himself into work, so she doesn't
have anyone, and so she feels that it's better to
keep people at arms lane or hurt people before they
can hurt her mentality in a sense. And Julian was
actually able to to help bring her out of that
shell and show her that it is okay to care
for someone and that someone will care for her back

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and you can open up. Because he was also someone
who was wounded and left behind because he lost his parents,
he had to take care of his sister who is
now by doling cancer, he was screwed over by his
ex girlfriend and his bandmate, so it's like he was
just as damaged by all these different things as well,
and he was still willing to open up and allow

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Kyle into his heart even though the last person he
did that to screwed him over. But of course, when
Kyle ends up backsliding and going to Collins after the wedding,
he feels that he is being played again and that
he is he made the fool, So he's rather leave
and hurt Kyle by walking away because he doesn't want

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to be hurt again. He doesn't want to be screwed
over a second time. So even though he loved Kyle,
he felt she was going to hurt him just as
much as Zana did before. He was willing to show
her that he loved her and they could be happy
and nothing could stop them. But the minute she went

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back to Colins, he just felt that she put a
knife in his gut and twisted it and he didn't
want that feeling again. And even though all this transpired,
he still deeply loved her and still was willing to
tell her and be with her after everything was said
and done, because she had come up and finally taken

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responsibility for her actions. In a sense, we at the end,
there were where the truth came out and that it
was a contract marriage her dad paid Julian to marry
her and all that she came up and said, yeah,
that's what this is, and was kind of like Okay, fine,
I'm done pretending I've screwed everyone, I've hurt everyone. It's

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finally just the truth needs to come out and I
need to take responsibility for this and see where the
chips may fall. And Julian sees this, and of course
it shows him just the person that he loves, so
I think that's kind of helped him be like, I
love you, I want to be with you. You just
can't screw me over again. But because of everything they

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both went to, they were able to feel and open
up and find that way back to this happy place
in a sense. So there was two things about Teaming
of the Ears that I kind of was not questioning,
but just like had thoughts on. One was that I
was just really mad for Kyle not telling Julie and
the truth when he had forgotten everything, because they knew

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it would end up backfiring on her, and I was
rooting for her to try and be better this time
around and just lay it all out there for him
so that way he could see her and see that
she changes that she has made, so that way they
could eventually get back together and find peace. So it
was just really kind of mad at her for not

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telling him because it's also he had Xana come in
and use this as a way to worm her way
back into Julian's life. She used the memory loss to
try and convince him that there were still good friends
and they still kept in touch and he still helped
her with her music, and she manipulated that in her favor,

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and I just I figured she would do something like that,
like that would be something definitely her character would do
because she wanted him to help her write new music
because all her songs were his songs, and she couldn't
write songs, so she needed him. So she saw this
opportunity and used it. But had Kyle told Julian kind

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of like the truth or some of it, at least,
maybe he could have protected himself from Xena trying to
manipulate him, or at least been a bit more aware
that maybe not everyone's telling him the truth, I feel,
but I get that it kind of added drama, and
it was a way for Kyle to try and bought
him up and make him see that he did love

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her and why he loved her, and kind of give
them a fresh start in a way. I just was
not a fan of the way she was doing it.
The other thing is is that I kind of wish
that there was more to the story. Like I love
how it ended. It was nice, it was all wrapped up.
They had their happy ending. But I also kind of
was like wanting to see a little bit more, especially

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with Julian, Like I would love to have seen him
get a music career or pursuing music a bit more,
especially as a way to kind of show that he
was good and that all his music was better. Almost
is a way to kind of like stick it to Zana,
like I am good and I can do this, and

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everything that you've done in the past means nothing because
I'm still going to pursue music and I have a
career kind of thing, if that makes sense. But I
kind of would have loved to have seen that. So
if they do any sequels, I would love to see
him kind of pursuing music a bit more, at least
his character. I think that would be fun. Those are

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just kind of two things that I had about this series,
because I really didn't have any other thoughts or critiques
or any questions. It was really good. I really enjoyed it.
It was fun and it just was adorable. I loved
the two actors. They played off each other very well
and their chemistry was chemistry was great. I loved that

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it was also two parts, so that way you got
to see two series together versus one and then it's over.
So I love when there are multiple not spin offs,
but parts kind of and I love that Candy Jar
will do that with certain series. They'll have more than
one part for it, and I like that. I'm glad
that they've been doing that. So for this series, I

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definite kind of ranked it a little bit higher in
my ratings because of how much I enjoyed it. And
I've always really liked Candy Jars series because I feel
like they are really well done. But again they're also
based off writing from their novel app so that I
think that kind of helps it too. But from my
rating for this one, it is a nine out of ten.
And again I told doing the seven different rating areas

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that I mentioned in my last my last review, and
but if you didn't hear that, So the rating areas
are character, atmosphere of writing, plot pacing, intrigue, and likability.
And then I take those and I divide the scores
that I've given them, and it gives me my score
out of ten for each one, and that's kind of
how I'm going to go about it from now on.
But that is Taming of the Eras. And again, I

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would love to know what you think of this series.
Did you have any favorite parts? Have you seen the Arrangement,
the series the Arrangement, how do you think it compares?
Do you like one more than the other? Really kind
of up to hear. So this has been my vertical obsession.
I'm your host, Megan and until next day