THE FINAL “AFTER" MOVIE SHOULD’NT BE CALLED A MOVIE | “AFTER EVERYTHING” | KennieJD 

In another life, this story could be about two women, Tess and Natalie, teaming up to take revenge on their verbally, emotionally, and sexually abusive ex-boyfriend who used their pain for his benefit but no we have this

The fact that Tessa only showed up in flashbacks until the very end and then was like "yeah, let's f*ck" and "I was wrong too" was wild. Almost as wild as that last wig someone made her wear.

The fact that this movie didn't open up with Tessa suing the bricks off Hardin I will never understand or condone it based entirely off that.

natalie basically playing therapist for hardin is still crazy to me like girl push him into traffic

“Beat his ass” all the way from whatever room she was in. That made me laugh so hard.

The central theme of "Only fix yourself for a woman who deserves it" is one of the most harmful messages that men can consume in modern media. Women can get unalived for rejecting a men who has become obsessed with her and redeeming themselves THROUGH her after all they've done to people. It's a selfish message that reduces women to objects who are soley responsible for men's redemption. Hardin doesn't want to be good for himself, because what does he get out of it, if not Tessa? She's just another cope, just like his drinking.

bubbles and russet deserve the world 🥺

girl if you think what he did to Natalie in the movie was bad... the book is so horrendous I can't even explain. My jaw dropped when you said Natalie's name and it brought back so much trauma In the book, Hardin and his friends in England had running bets on how fast they could take girl's virginity. There were MULTIPLE girls him and his friends did this to, where they pretended to be into them, fucked them, and left. But one of Hardin's friends said he wanted evidence because they didn't know if their friends were telling the truth about the girls, so they all started recording themselves having sex with girls. None of them asked for permission Natalie was the only girl Hardin recorded, but she did not know about the video being taken, and when it got out things were so much worse for her than the movie. Not only did she lose her scholarship, her parents kicked her out, and because she was around 17, she had nowhere to go. So she went to Hardin and asked him to let her stay AND HE SAID NO Hardin knew he was the reason Natalie lost her scholarship and her home, he knew Natalie had fallen in love with him and that he was the only one she had left, AND HE LEFT HER ON THE STREETS Don't even start with this series, it's worthy of a death sentence Edit: I completely forgot about this but it's so nasty I have to add it on. Natalie was the only girl he recorded when he played this gross game in England, but after he came to the US after his mom found out about the Natalie thing, but he did this to his friend Dan's sister. Dan told him to leave his sister alone, but Hardin still slept with her and recorded it just to piss Dan off for telling him not to talk to his sister. And when Tessa judged him for it, he said 'It's fine, he's a dick anyway.' He didn't even view this girl as a person, he just uses her to hurt other people

something that really bothers me about those movies is that everytime SA is mentioned it's never about the victim. the whole situation that happened with hardin's mom, while, yes, he would absolutely be traumatized by witnessing something like that, it's never adressed how this would affect her; she just goes "i'm over it, you should be too". and now with natalie, it's the exact same thing; she's also magically over something so deeply traumatizing like that and hardin is the only one who is still dreading it and SHE is the one to tell HIM that he should be over it. except this time it's even worse because he is the abuser in the situation. it feels like they are trying reaaally hard to paint him as this super great guy and be like "look how caring and worried he is. even the victims don't care anymore and he still does:((((("

The fact that the actress that plays Tessa didn’t film one scene for this movie 😂😂. Every scene with her is something that we already saw from a past movie or something that was on the cutting room floor from the past movies. Even she knew this was unnecessary

According to Amanda the Jedi, Tessa’s actress wasn’t in the movie. That last scene with her there is a scene the makers filmed for After Ever Happy. They just kept it until this one. Tessa’s actress dipped out after 4 movies, which I don’t blame her for honestly. Those movies suck so bad 🫠

Im still not over the fact they tried to make a redemption arc for a ARSONIST REVENGE PORNOGRAPHER LIKE A LITERAL CANONICAL ARSONIST REVENGE PORNOGRAPHER

In the words of Herb Kazzaz: “I do not forgive you. You have to live the shitty thing, you did, for the rest of your life. You have to know that it's never ever going to be okay. And I will never forgive you for that. Now get the fuck out of my house!” Them can’t really be thinking that Hardin deserves his Zuko Alone journey 😭

for anyone who was also confused as fuck as to why tessa, the protagonist of the last 4 movies, was barely there: josephine langford, who plays tessa, didn't want to come back for the 5th movie because she felt that the story was over and there was nothing more to add. then the studios said "eh fuck it" and greenlit the 5th one, using footage of the wedding and them as parents that was actually filmed as the ending to the 4th one. i guess this is kind of based off of "before", which is the prequel book? never read it, so i can't say for certain, but yeah that's why nothing makes sense and there's a shit ton of flashbacks 😭

In the second book Harden admitted to Tessa that he basically recorded and sent ch*ld p*rnography of Natalie to his friends and ruined her life and not giving a shit. I'm just here to say this. Guess they held on to this plotline because they knew most people wouldn't watch the rest of the movies when the male lead is committing crimes against multiple women.

Imagine how surprised Russet is going to be when bubbles grows to be twice her size

It’s crazy that the actress that plays Natalie is in this horrible ass movie when she’s an amazing character in Sex Education 😭

I remember Natalie from the book! I was wondering why that wasnt in the movie! It was in the 2nd book. Pretty sure he filmed her w/o her consent, sent it to his friends and his friends then individually asked to sleep with her and threatened to leak the video if she wouldn't. She refused and got kicked out of her church and her parents disowned her. Her reputation was completely soiled after sleeping with 1 guy once. It was always a bad novel but it crossed from ethically awful to criminal. I just couldnt do it any longer after that.

I still don’t know how this franchise got studio/financial approval to make FOUR MORE MOVIES after the first one. I’m convinced that this franchise is a secret money laundering scheme lol

Now wait a dang minute--- If Harden was 19/20 when he did met Tessa and he did what he did to Natalie 5 years prior... doesn't that make them 14/15 as in MINORS?? So not only did he ruin that girl's life, he committed a major crime in distributing child pr*n?????? JAIL.

I actually dated a guy like Hardin who would enact these giant freakouts to break up then show up later to lovebomb me into getting back together. After 2 cycles of this, I had enough and blocked him out of my life. This guy showed up at my jobs, called my family, left notes on my door. All after trashing my apartment in a freakout to go sleep with someone else. Years later he sends another searching email where I told him to kick rocks before my husband smashes his face against one. Never heard from him again 😁

I also love how the "fertility issues" were just fodder for the teenage angst and not actually something that would pose an obstacle. Of course we cant have anything stand in the way of the traditional happy ending tho

The fact that anyone treated Hardin with any sort of kindness is WILD to me. Also imma need his momma/step-momma to mind her damn business, she is two for two for telling the business of women who hate this man.

The "The story through the eyes of the toxic main male character" Grey/Midnight Sun trend MUST BE STOPPED.

The harmonizing, the puppies, the chant for Harden's demise... loved it all.

he doesnt actually apologize once, the women just go like "oh it wasnt your fault" like what the hell of course it was

The fact the main actress didn’t even return and they just had to mash together a bunch of left over footage from the last movie makes the flashback sequences more hilarious

Harden's publishing storyline is pure irony from an author who made millions representing a real man she's never met as a violent abuser without his consent. I don't think she knows what an artistic muse is. It's meant as a person or thing that inspires you to create your own original works, not someone who makes you go "wow, all this personal tragedy would make a great story!" and literally write down every detail of their real life.

Chibi shouting ᵇᵉᵃᵗ ʰⁱˢ ᵃˢˢ in the background when Kennie said BEAT HIS ASS took me tf out

if a dude cost me a scholarship, I am deadass dedicating the rest of my colegeless life to ruining his 🎉 we are both going down, honey

You did it Kennie!! You made it thru the other side of the After series!! We appreciate your sacrifice!

We all know Kennie has pipes, but Chibi singing the high harmony in the background was so pretty. Like I was stunned

"He has reached the conclusion that it was probably not the best thing to do, writing the book about Tessa, but not enough to stop him from writing a second book" Kennie please I'm deceased, the tone, the cut right after, the absolute chaos and pound-my-head-against-a-wall frustration that is Hardin's character, I found this line so funny. 😂 I cannot get over the absolute disrespect of at least asking Natalie for permission when he didn't even do that for Tessa, Hardin is trash and I live for the slander.

One of my favorite Kennie quotes of all time when referring to Hardin’s arson-soaked tirade from the last After movie, “This m--f-- BURNED HER HOUSE DOWN! YOU HEARD ME! YOU HEARD ME, YOUR EARS ARE FINE!”

apparently, in the books, hardin doesnt even ask if he can record the video. he just does it without natalie knowing. im so-

They could have halfway salvaged this by at the very end having Hardin wake up and realize it's just a dream and that he never made money off a book and like is stuck working a dead end job and fb stalking Tessa and Natalie who are living their best lives.

You guys just yelling “beat his ass” back and forth is so relatable and what I think every time I watch reviews of the “after” movies. I refuse to watch the actual movies because of how toxic they are but I also need to know how trash each one is lol

My husband was watching the Ohio state game and I said babe Kendall has a new movie recap out. He was like aight I'm switching to my phone let's see what our good sis is talmbout. I died laughing. Trust if you can get my husband to switch off football you doing something GREAT LOL

the zero hesitation 'beat his ass' solidarity instantly followed by 'oh, we're talking about hardin?' is **chef's kiss**

Russet is 100% kennies child 😂not her trying to beat bubbles ass over a treat

So apparently the actress who plays Tessa did not sign on for this movie, so all footage of Tessa is from the previous movies... that's why she's looking at him pleasantly in the wedding scene

Literally sitting at my kitchen table carving pumpkins alone. Absolute perfect timing! I hope you baddies have an awesome Halloween 👻🎃

One of the few movies that actually got me openly audibly scoffing. How on gods green earth was he not murdered in Portugal.

The 'I'm giving a speech about something super important to some other people, but it's also secretly a message to my love interest, so the speech is really about ME! ME! ME!' reminds me so much of Meredith telling the guests to Cristina's wedding that the wedding isn't happening - while also signalling to Derek that their relationship is "so over" - and I hate it. It's so disrespectful. Go have your moment somewhere else some other time.

such an ew ew ew thing to do that pissed me off so much - Hardin's parents telling him that one of his "victims" had moved on and his first reaction is to immediately fly to her 😢 what a fcking idiot! "let me finish her off" energy

We finally made it to the final after..I also just realized I been watching Kennie for the last 4 years 😂 such a monumental moment

Making this a Hardin based redemption arc is so frustrating! If someone sold my trauma as a book with my government name in it, there's no coming back from that slight bro

this is EXACTLY what i need in order to avoid doing my essays that are due in the next three days

I was at the movie theatre after watching a movie with my mom around a month ago and while I was waiting for my mom to go to the bathroom, I saw an ad or poster of sorts in the hall for this movie and I thought to myself "What if I take a picture of this and post it on twitter and @ Kendall" but then I decided eehhh she probably already has people hounding her I probably don't need to. I'm surprised to find out no-one did. Well at least you now know the thought was there. Never stop thinking about the holy dog mother, queen of squishmallows, punisher of rats and bad movie connoisseur with a verbose vocabulary that also makes music sometimes!!:)

Dude the way I was soooo disgusted when they let us know what he did to Natalie like WHAT? This asshole did that crappy bet not only once but TWICE? Like wtf, how is this stuff still being made and this character gets a happy ending? He should've been beaten up right after the first movie fr, no waaaaay they tried to make people eat up this "redemption" arc when he should've been burning in hell a long time ago. Thank god it's over.

My goodness sake Bubbles and Russet are the cute baby cousins. Btw Russet is so big 🥺 omg, we are seeing her grow so fast 😭 I find it funny that Tessa's actress was like "I'm out, you guys stretching" and them using bunch of shoots from previous movies 🤣

Bubbles and Rusette 🥹🥹🥹 besties!!! Please keep us updated on this friendship and Bubbles inevitable giant growth spurt to be 20x Rusette 😂

I have such an issue with every single "After" bc i feel like so many impressionable kids/teens love the toxicity. They will mimic the hot n cold tendencies. Also in a weird way i feel like this story represents a lot of white men, bailing him out everytime he commits atrocities and he gets forgiven after doing the most cruel things..... I've legit heard so many men like "why wont you forgive me?" despite doing 0 inner work and these movies just bolster that idea.....so exhausting

Wait so... 5 years before Hardin met Tessa, assuming he was 18-19 when they did, he was def out there sharing CSEM with absolute no legal repercussions 💀💀💀💀💀

So apparently this movie had a lack of Tessa because the actress who played her didn't want to be in the movies anymore? Even she was tired of this shit 💀

I honestly knew this movie was out for a while, but didn't wanna ask for it because I felt bad for you. There's only so much suffering I want you to go through for our entertainment.

there is absolutely no way that this movie should’ve ended with hardin being alive and well

GIRL I THOUGHT YOU MEANT THIS WAS THE LAST BAD MOVIES AND A BEAT😭 I was so scared

Hardin literally sharing a video without a girl’s consent is so sad😭 nah why did they try to redeem him. When he turned up, that shit would’ve terrified me

Harden is a pathetic character for many reasons but my biggest upset is the normalization of man babies and the I can fix him mentality & all the feminism leaves my body when women like men like this cause I do not feel bad when reality hits them.

How have I rolled my eyes multiple times as soon as things happened in the movie clips 😭

To quote past Kennie, “I’m no lawyer, I’m just a girl with common sense” but a slightly better movie instead would be Tessa taking this man to court on a privacy lawsuit, cause how the hell is he gonna write a book based on her private life and things only he knew, not change her name in the book, make profit, and not expect his ass to be sued???

there's something really funny about writing a self insert fanfiction about you and a celebrity and write them as so awful that you break up constantly. like, the author, who must love harry styles to write fanfic about him, wrote him as a character that she breaks up with multiple times? does she actually secretly hate harry styles? also poor harry styles, i hope he hasnt seen any of these movies.

lmao the harmonies in the beginning ate and then russet telling yall shut the hell up was hilarious!!

The guy who plays Dior is Bella Thorne's ex fiancé, he is (or was, idk) an italian musician and decided to act in a couple of movies and, as you said, he's a terrible actor, just like Giulio Berruti (the marvelous Gabriel in Gabriel's inferno). I swear, we DO have good actors here in Italy as well😂

There is something to be said about male artists who use women to fuel their art and call them their muse despite it being to their detriment. It reminds me of an art piece, also called ThecMuse's revenge iirc where it shows a man laid past out surrounded by his paintings of a woman in his mansion while said woman -- his muse -- is about to shoot him.

This was bittersweet, I found this channel while searching for a review on the first “After” movie and stayed for Kennie’s entertaining and hilarious reviews. My favorite parts is when she talks like Harden with the accent and all 😂

The funniest thing about this franchise is how almost every original actor ends up leaving including the female lead.

As a LOVER of Redemption Arcs, I just…wow. Its the most lazy, unseasoned, uneventful, bland “redemption” arc ever written, probably. Its just…what? Nothing happened in terms of events; nothing happened in terms of personal conflict…why is it even made, then? The whole video I looked at Kennie’s beautiful makeup and hair, and also, how one’s is able to sit through the shit without Kennie commenting on it? Like, its not even boring, its mind-numbingly empty of any substance.

I was in 11th grade when these movies started coming out and now I'm about to end my 4-year-university.. I can't believe this shit lasted so long .

glad u enjoyed victoria's show! she came for our homecoming and she DANCED

21:46 I love how you’re friend didn’t even know who you were talking abt but still said “BEAT HIS ASS” 😭😭😭

At this rate, it’s gonna be hard for me to believe they won’t have an “After We Divorced” & “After We Passed Away” sequels even *after* saying this is it.

Pros: people know about more about Portugal, Kennie is chaotic and hangover and we love to see it, and still amazing. Cons: it's an After movie

Yay! In honor of spooky season, Kennie decided to review a horror film for us!!!❤🙃☺️

I just love that they made another movie although the actress playing Tessa refused to come back for the final movie. All scenes with Tessa were supposed to be in the last movie but they just made a whole other movie 😂

I love when you do a dramatic look, it's art. I think the natural look gets approval because you are *so pretty*. Thank you for sitting through this drivel for our amusement. :D

i need to your thoughts on this old 90s film called "An Indecent Proposal". It's a batshit insane movie about a couple that gets propositioned a large sum of money if the wife spends one night with an old millionaire. Truly one of the most batshit movies I've seen.

“Oh this movie is just Hardin…oh no” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Seldom have I seen a character as unredeemable as Hardin. In the books he's even worse, especially when it comes to Natalie. The message of this all is so awful: he can go around, abuse people and treat everyone like shit, only to be forgiven cause he had a hard life too, and then finally steals Tessa's dreams. As I remember, she was always the one into books and publishing and now she's the perfect housewife while Hardin's got to be a freaking bestselling author??? Besides, of course her infertility that costs Hardin oh so much pain and trouble had to magically vanish, because it's no happy end if they don't have kids

genuine question: is it legal to write books about real people’s experiences, with embarassing or traumatic details of their lives, and using their actual names?? Without their consent???

Girl I saw this dumpster fire and was just waiting for you to review😂😂

A bit of an odd suggestion. Tammy and the T-Rex. It stars Denise Richard and Paul Walker and Paul Walker has his brain put into an animatronic T-Rex. It gave me the same feeling you describe when talking about your love of bad movies

I do in fact LOVE your bright and experimental makeup, I LIVE for your fabulous colors and unique designs and blending. I do appreciate your hard work, Kennie!

This movie is the worst. For context, in the book, they didn’t date. She didn’t know he filmed her if I remember from people who reviewed the after series. When Natalie asked Hardin for help but he said it wasn’t his problem. How is this the love interest and a heartthrob.

... and then he wakes up on the airplane again - the reconciliation was all a dream! Would make so much better sense. The banter between you and your friend and the puppies was the most delightful thing!

Russet & Bubbles, an iconic duo. 🐶🧡🐶 I'm sure Victoria Monet put on a show ✨️ I don't know how they do it! 1 night of Renaissance took me out for days. Stamina!! 😂

"Ugh you can't talk about our souls like that" 😂

Listen the background chaos MADE this for me 😂 Give Chibi, Bubbles, and Russet all the love because I was laughing my butt off the entire BM&B!

Please, please do the Korean movie My Little Bride. It is so messed up and bad. The story is about an arranged marriage between a teenage girl and her teacher!

I don't know if it's true, but I heard that the actress that plays Tessa refused to come back for this movie, so they had to cobble it together with deleted scenes from other movies.

THE FACT THAT I FARTED RIGHT BEFORE SHE SAID "Somebody farted!"... I SCREAMED

"oh we're talking about Harden?" lmao i need a friend that backs me up that immediately and unquestioningly

seeing hardin terrorize my home city is scary, ngl

I've never engaged w/ these movies, the books or the og fanfic outside of bmaab. I have no emotional investment in the story whatsoever, & yet still I'm infuriated. Like, a genre of romance that, for all its problems, is about centering the desires of young women - culminating in a film series that ultimately doesn't give a shit about what the female lead wants, feels or does is depressing af. At least the twilight series stays focused on *why* bella wants edward, & what *she* gets out of their relationship! After doesn't give a shit about tessa, & I'm really scared of how that reflects the current trends in romance aimed at girls/women (both published & fanfic). To me it seems we're so caught up in the drama of forbidden/"toxic" relationships & "flawed" love interests, that the actual core of the genre - female power fantasy/self-actualization manifested thru romance - is being disregarded. I dunno maybe I'm overreacting, but it pisses me off that the most popular het romances of the last 10ish years seem to think endless manpain inherently makes a story more "complex" & engaging than just, letting their female leads WANT things & work to obtain them.

that whole scene where he dreams about the flight attendant was giving like PG13 364 days

Honestly I love your personality more than anything else on your videos and that’s why I keep coming back to watch your videos

I like when Kenny does creative makeup .. because you never know how it's gonna happen me up lol it's 🔥 every time

I know it doesn’t matter, please do whatever makeup you like and want to do (that’s the fun of makeup), but I really enjoy your “cool” makeup. It’s really beautiful, fun to watch you apply and it’s always really creative! You are incredibly talented and I really enjoy your more “cool” looks!

LAWD when I heard ‘we closing out a series I’m glad to see go’ I thought kennie meant her own BAD MOVIES SERIES. My stomach filled with doom and I nearly yelled NOOO Girl I live for these weekly chats