November 12, 2025 • 10 mins
In this episode, Meg discusses the drama 'They Loved Me Too Late,' focusing on the character Joy Bennett and her tumultuous relationships with Gavin and Elliot. The conversation explores themes of manipulation, misunderstandings, and Joy's journey towards finding happiness with Nathan Harrington. Meg reflects on the characters' dynamics, particularly Gavin's conflicted feelings and the impact of Megan's manipulation. The episode concludes with Meg's thoughts on modern storytelling in dramas, noting a shift towards less predictable endings.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to my vertical obsession. And today we are talking
about They Loved Me Too Late, which is on Drama Box.
This one is about Joy Bennett, who ended up moving
in with Gavin and Elliott Reynolds after her parents were
killed because she viewed their mother as her aunt. So
(00:23):
she was taken in and they grew up together and
it was believed that she would always end up marrying
either Gavin or Elliott. And that was until Megan showed up,
who was the maid's daughter who ended up manipulating Gavin
and Elliott and making them believe that Joy was the
problem and Joy was causing all these issues and they
(00:46):
believed it, hook line and sinker every single time, no
matter if Joy tried to tell them, no, this was Megan,
she did this, they believed her. So Joy was given
the opportunity to mary Nathan Harrington, and at first she
wasn't sure she wanted to, But then as things continued
(01:07):
to get worse and Meghan nearly tried to kill her
with Lily's which she's allergic to, she decided enough was
enough and she was going to accept the offer to
marry Nathan. So after being told that Nathan would come
and get her in so many days, she counted down
the days until she could leave the house, and when
(01:30):
she started packing up her things, Gavin and Elliott ended
up kicking her out of the house, and Nathan ended
up showing up just in time to rescue her and
bring her to his house, which Elliot and Gavin didn't
quite understand. They didn't know that she was getting married.
They were told every so often, but it wasn't sinking in.
(01:51):
They just believed that Joy was having a temper tantrum
and that she would come back and all would be right. However,
she had left and she was not coming back. And
it was at first who was told of the video
feed for the pool incident, where Megan tried to blame
Joy for stealing the Reynolds mothers necklace and then pushing
(02:13):
Joy and herself into the pool, which in course Megan
made it seem like Joy pushed her, which wasn't the case.
And once Gavin saw that and realized he had been manipulated,
he's slowly trying to figure out what else did Megan manipulate?
What else did he not see clearly? And of course
(02:33):
Elliot wasn't aware of this, and he still believed that
Joy was being mean and not being fair to Meghan,
but Gavin kept saying no, shut up and trying to
stand up for her now, but it was too late.
She's marrying Nathan. And eventually Elliott realized just how much
they were bullying Joy and just how much they were
(02:54):
believing Meghan and her lies, to the fact that they
slowly started to give Megan the treatment that they gave
Joy to try and make up for all the issues
that they had caused Joy in the past. But Joy
still wasn't going to forgive them or accept their apology,
whereas Nathan was doing everything in his power to prove
(03:17):
that he would put her first, he would care for her,
he loved her. He also mentioned how that they had
met years ago but she didn't remember, and he had
told her that he had been bullied on a school
school grounds and she had shown up and had gotten
rid of the bullies and had been nice to him,
and ever since then he's been in love with her
(03:38):
and he was going to do everything he could to
put her first, and Gavin and Elliott still tried to
get Joy to forgive them and give them a second chance.
Joy was not going to have it, and in the
end Joy gets married to Nathan, she ends up pregnant
and just walks away from Gavin and Elliott, and at
(03:59):
the end there you hear that Gavin and Elliott have
said that she just doesn't care about them anymore, which
is fair because of all that they put her through.
So this one was kind of interesting because there was
this sense I got from Gavin when watching it that
he wasn't fully on board with bullying her. He was
(04:22):
very hesitant from the scenes, but it was always Elliott
and Megan who were kind of initiating it, and Gavin
would always kind of step in a little too late,
but he would step in to keep it from going
too far or going way too far, but he never
stopped it from happening in the first place. And also
(04:44):
there were times where he wanted to help Joy, but
then Megan would stand up and pull him or tell
him they need to do something, so he would end
up away from her. So I kind of got this
sense that Gavin still cared for her, but just still
believed Meghan and wanted to be there for Meghan, and
(05:04):
I was kind of hoping that maybe Gavin would be
the one to break away before she left before Joy left.
It just never happened. I was, however, glad that he
was the one to realize that Megan was manipulating them first,
because you could see that hesitation when they were bullying Joy.
(05:25):
So I kinda there was parts that I wish Gavin
stood up more because I could see it that he
wanted to. You could get this sense he wanted to,
but Megan and Elliot weren't letting him. And then there
were other parts where he was just being cruel. So
I'm like there was a very interesting side to Gavin
(05:47):
versus Elliot, who was just an ass because of Megan's manipulation.
So it's like I knew there was never anything there,
but I was kind of rooting a little bit for Gavin.
I'd say, I was kind of hoping that maybe Joy
could forgive at Gavin because of him stepping in and
(06:07):
trying to stop things when he did that maybe she
could find it in her heart to kind of forgive him. Elliott, no, never,
but I saw a little bit of a softer side
to Gavin, and I thought maybe there was a chance
that they could find forgiveness. I knew it wasn't going
to happen, but I was hoping that maybe they could
find a place a forgiveness or end in a good place. First,
(06:31):
how they ended it with Gavin and Elliott still trying
to get her back, get her to come back. It
didn't like that ending. I would have rather them to
kind of realize we screwed up. She's happy now, let
us step away and hope that maybe there is a
chance that she could forgive us at some point and
(06:52):
we could be in her lives type of thing. So
I did kind of hope for that when watching the
series especially. Yeah, but I get why that never occurred,
and I knew it wasn't going to happen, but I
was a little bit hopeful that maybe it would, at
least with Gavin, not Elliott. Elliott was just an ass
the entire time. But for Joy, I was happy that
(07:15):
she got her happy ending. She got the boy, She
got someone who loved her and put her first. She
deserved that, especially everything she had been through because they
chose to believe Megan over her every time, even though
they grew up with her versus Megan, So you'd think
that they would believe her over Megan. That's just my
(07:36):
thought and another thing about this one. It had mister
Jennings Brower in this, and I was very excited to
see that because that was one of the reasons why
I did watch the series. That and the fact that
kept seeing ads for it on TikTok, so it made
me want to see what happened next, especially when one
of the ads showed Jennings playing Nathan and I was like, Oh, okay,
(08:00):
now I need to go and watch this. And I
know he's done a bunch. I've seen a couple of them.
I haven't seen a lot because they're on some of
the apps that I haven't been watching as much, so
I'm slowly working through the different apps. Now. I love
getting to see him and I need to definitely watch
(08:20):
more of them because I've been following him on TikTok
for a while, always to enjoy his TikTok, So when
he started doing these verticals, I was like, yes, now
I get to watch them in like series. So it's
it's very fun to see that and I'm very happy
to see him doing these, and I hope to continue
(08:41):
to see him do more of these roles and continue
to do well because he's just he's just a Sweetheart.
I adore him. I think this one was a little
bit of a smaller review, and I thought I had
more to say, but I just I enjoyed it. It
was very cute. Again, it's a very typical vertical, and
I've been noticing a little bit more that some of
(09:03):
the verticals don't end in that very happy ending anymore.
That they are a lot that are kind of having
sadder and having endings where someone ends up unhappy or
doesn't get the girl, or loses the girl, or loses
the guy. So I've been seeing that a little bit more.
Whereas verticals used to be that these the couple would fight,
(09:25):
they'd break up, they'd lose faith in each other, but
somehow by the end they're back together. So it's kind
of nice not to see everything wrapped up so nicely
like they used to be. I mean, they still end
happy because the girl ends up with someone else and
gets her fairy tale ending, but the other main characters
(09:46):
are the ones who are left behind and aren't happy,
and that's what I'm kind of seeing a little bit more.
So it's kind of interesting to see that where things
don't wrap up and not everyone gets their happy end
in a sense. This was drama boxes they loved me
too late. If I was to give it a rating,
(10:06):
I'd say about seven point five out of ten because
it was cute. I did love the story. I wanted
to smack the boys multiple time, Gavin and Elliott. They
of course both deserved to be smacked multiple times, but
I still enjoyed the story. So this has been my
vertical obsession and until next time,
Welcome to my vertical obsession. And today we are talking
about They Loved Me Too Late, which is on Drama Box.
This one is about Joy Bennett, who ended up moving
in with Gavin and Elliott Reynolds after her parents were
killed because she viewed their mother as her aunt. So
(00:23):
she was taken in and they grew up together and
it was believed that she would always end up marrying
either Gavin or Elliott. And that was until Megan showed up,
who was the maid's daughter who ended up manipulating Gavin
and Elliott and making them believe that Joy was the
problem and Joy was causing all these issues and they
(00:46):
believed it, hook line and sinker every single time, no
matter if Joy tried to tell them, no, this was Megan,
she did this, they believed her. So Joy was given
the opportunity to mary Nathan Harrington, and at first she
wasn't sure she wanted to, But then as things continued
(01:07):
to get worse and Meghan nearly tried to kill her
with Lily's which she's allergic to, she decided enough was
enough and she was going to accept the offer to
marry Nathan. So after being told that Nathan would come
and get her in so many days, she counted down
the days until she could leave the house, and when
(01:30):
she started packing up her things, Gavin and Elliott ended
up kicking her out of the house, and Nathan ended
up showing up just in time to rescue her and
bring her to his house, which Elliot and Gavin didn't
quite understand. They didn't know that she was getting married.
They were told every so often, but it wasn't sinking in.
(01:51):
They just believed that Joy was having a temper tantrum
and that she would come back and all would be right. However,
she had left and she was not coming back. And
it was at first who was told of the video
feed for the pool incident, where Megan tried to blame
Joy for stealing the Reynolds mothers necklace and then pushing
(02:13):
Joy and herself into the pool, which in course Megan
made it seem like Joy pushed her, which wasn't the case.
And once Gavin saw that and realized he had been manipulated,
he's slowly trying to figure out what else did Megan manipulate?
What else did he not see clearly? And of course
(02:33):
Elliot wasn't aware of this, and he still believed that
Joy was being mean and not being fair to Meghan,
but Gavin kept saying no, shut up and trying to
stand up for her now, but it was too late.
She's marrying Nathan. And eventually Elliott realized just how much
they were bullying Joy and just how much they were
(02:54):
believing Meghan and her lies, to the fact that they
slowly started to give Megan the treatment that they gave
Joy to try and make up for all the issues
that they had caused Joy in the past. But Joy
still wasn't going to forgive them or accept their apology,
whereas Nathan was doing everything in his power to prove
(03:17):
that he would put her first, he would care for her,
he loved her. He also mentioned how that they had
met years ago but she didn't remember, and he had
told her that he had been bullied on a school
school grounds and she had shown up and had gotten
rid of the bullies and had been nice to him,
and ever since then he's been in love with her
(03:38):
and he was going to do everything he could to
put her first, and Gavin and Elliott still tried to
get Joy to forgive them and give them a second chance.
Joy was not going to have it, and in the
end Joy gets married to Nathan, she ends up pregnant
and just walks away from Gavin and Elliott, and at
(03:59):
the end there you hear that Gavin and Elliott have
said that she just doesn't care about them anymore, which
is fair because of all that they put her through.
So this one was kind of interesting because there was
this sense I got from Gavin when watching it that
he wasn't fully on board with bullying her. He was
(04:22):
very hesitant from the scenes, but it was always Elliott
and Megan who were kind of initiating it, and Gavin
would always kind of step in a little too late,
but he would step in to keep it from going
too far or going way too far, but he never
stopped it from happening in the first place. And also
(04:44):
there were times where he wanted to help Joy, but
then Megan would stand up and pull him or tell
him they need to do something, so he would end
up away from her. So I kind of got this
sense that Gavin still cared for her, but just still
believed Meghan and wanted to be there for Meghan, and
(05:04):
I was kind of hoping that maybe Gavin would be
the one to break away before she left before Joy left.
It just never happened. I was, however, glad that he
was the one to realize that Megan was manipulating them first,
because you could see that hesitation when they were bullying Joy.
(05:25):
So I kinda there was parts that I wish Gavin
stood up more because I could see it that he
wanted to. You could get this sense he wanted to,
but Megan and Elliot weren't letting him. And then there
were other parts where he was just being cruel. So
I'm like there was a very interesting side to Gavin
(05:47):
versus Elliot, who was just an ass because of Megan's manipulation.
So it's like I knew there was never anything there,
but I was kind of rooting a little bit for Gavin.
I'd say, I was kind of hoping that maybe Joy
could forgive at Gavin because of him stepping in and
(06:07):
trying to stop things when he did that maybe she
could find it in her heart to kind of forgive him. Elliott, no, never,
but I saw a little bit of a softer side
to Gavin, and I thought maybe there was a chance
that they could find forgiveness. I knew it wasn't going
to happen, but I was hoping that maybe they could
find a place a forgiveness or end in a good place. First,
(06:31):
how they ended it with Gavin and Elliott still trying
to get her back, get her to come back. It
didn't like that ending. I would have rather them to
kind of realize we screwed up. She's happy now, let
us step away and hope that maybe there is a
chance that she could forgive us at some point and
(06:52):
we could be in her lives type of thing. So
I did kind of hope for that when watching the
series especially. Yeah, but I get why that never occurred,
and I knew it wasn't going to happen, but I
was a little bit hopeful that maybe it would, at
least with Gavin, not Elliott. Elliott was just an ass
the entire time. But for Joy, I was happy that
(07:15):
she got her happy ending. She got the boy, She
got someone who loved her and put her first. She
deserved that, especially everything she had been through because they
chose to believe Megan over her every time, even though
they grew up with her versus Megan, So you'd think
that they would believe her over Megan. That's just my
(07:36):
thought and another thing about this one. It had mister
Jennings Brower in this, and I was very excited to
see that because that was one of the reasons why
I did watch the series. That and the fact that
kept seeing ads for it on TikTok, so it made
me want to see what happened next, especially when one
of the ads showed Jennings playing Nathan and I was like, Oh, okay,
(08:00):
now I need to go and watch this. And I
know he's done a bunch. I've seen a couple of them.
I haven't seen a lot because they're on some of
the apps that I haven't been watching as much, so
I'm slowly working through the different apps. Now. I love
getting to see him and I need to definitely watch
(08:20):
more of them because I've been following him on TikTok
for a while, always to enjoy his TikTok, So when
he started doing these verticals, I was like, yes, now
I get to watch them in like series. So it's
it's very fun to see that and I'm very happy
to see him doing these, and I hope to continue
(08:41):
to see him do more of these roles and continue
to do well because he's just he's just a Sweetheart.
I adore him. I think this one was a little
bit of a smaller review, and I thought I had
more to say, but I just I enjoyed it. It
was very cute. Again, it's a very typical vertical, and
I've been noticing a little bit more that some of
(09:03):
the verticals don't end in that very happy ending anymore.
That they are a lot that are kind of having
sadder and having endings where someone ends up unhappy or
doesn't get the girl, or loses the girl, or loses
the guy. So I've been seeing that a little bit more.
Whereas verticals used to be that these the couple would fight,
(09:25):
they'd break up, they'd lose faith in each other, but
somehow by the end they're back together. So it's kind
of nice not to see everything wrapped up so nicely
like they used to be. I mean, they still end
happy because the girl ends up with someone else and
gets her fairy tale ending, but the other main characters
(09:46):
are the ones who are left behind and aren't happy,
and that's what I'm kind of seeing a little bit more.
So it's kind of interesting to see that where things
don't wrap up and not everyone gets their happy end
in a sense. This was drama boxes they loved me
too late. If I was to give it a rating,
(10:06):
I'd say about seven point five out of ten because
it was cute. I did love the story. I wanted
to smack the boys multiple time, Gavin and Elliott. They
of course both deserved to be smacked multiple times, but
I still enjoyed the story. So this has been my
vertical obsession and until next time,
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