Love Reset Game
Viewed on KalosTV: Oooh, I love these stories! I love the fake amnesia stories!! This girl is trying to “trick” her boyfriend, only it’s an April Fool’s prank gone wrong when the partner leans into it. However, it exposes the cheating she never knew about and then she’s instantly thrust into the arms of a man that has secretly loved her this whole time and 100% supports her so she can walk away from the crap relationship she didn’t know she was in. Or as I call it, trope #23 (read more about my trope list here).
The High: It was fun watching Kendyl and Kylan together. I haven’t watched the two of them of them as often as other actors, but they were great together :) I look forward to seeing some of their other projects.
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Alison Dylan (Kendyl Twa) wakes to doctors and nurses in the hospital following a car crash, but no family or boyfriend. Finally, 20 hours into her stay, her boyfriend Ron finally appears along with her bestie Brenda! To mess with him Alison pretends to have amnesia. When the doctor confirmed amnesia is probably temporary, Ron and Brenda lean into it and tell Alison her boyfriend is Ron’s buddy, Carl. Okay, I don’t get these storylines. They deny their relationships thinking when the amnesia fades away their girlfriends will be so desperate and love starved they won’t care about the cheating they did IN FRONT OF THEIR FACE. At least in the 1980 movie overboard, when the wife got amnesia, her husband just didn’t look for her or claim her after she was found. I mean, he did cheat on her but that was away from her eyes on the boat, not right in front of her face. This part of the storyline is dumb and full of holes.
Anyway, Ron’s bestie, Carl (Kylan Mackenzie), walks in and they tell her that Carl is her boyfriend of years. Carl is down for more Alison time so he totally jumps in and claims her. Alison rolls with it and asks to go home. Carl has a PALACE for Alison which is genuinely new to her. Alison questions him and asks if they live there together, and he admits she still has her own place. He sends her off to rest and greets Ron at the door. He asks Carl to keep playing along because Brenda wants more time with Ron. Carl says, hey idiot, what happens when she doesn’t have amnesia anymore? Ron somehow things that he’ll be able to smooth things over, claiming he has her wrapped around his finger, but demands Carl not touch her. Alison is clomping around and hears everything. Carl voice over that he is THRILLED his “buddy” is giving him this chance to win Alison over.
Carl is caring for Alison and touching her despite what Ron said when they get an invite from Ron for the next night at a club. Alison wants to prove just how much Ron doesn’t have her wrapped around his finger. Ron and Brenda’s shitty friends are in on the whole thing laughing at Alison. Ron and Brenda practically fuck right in front of Alison but Carl notices that her amnesia might not be on the up and up. Alison is determined they not get the best of her, so picks up a drink and starts playing. She loses at pool and is told she has to kiss someone and Ron is sure she’ll pick him, but she picks her “boyfriend,” which pisses off Ron. Ron walks off to pout and Carl is all sorry dude, it’s just a game. Carl says he’ll play along. Then, Carl is in the hall kissing the hell out of Alison.
Flash back to seven years ago and Alison, Carl and Ron are all at the same school. Alison is winning an award and Carl has flowers for her, but Ron swoops in and takes the credit sparking off their relationship. Alison rejoins the group and Brenda asks her to take a picture of the couple while recounting all the things they’ve done over the years for their anniversary. So this hasn’t been a recent hook up but an orchestrated and calculating betrayal. They check into their hotel with separate but adjoining rooms. Ron sends the girls up but wants to talk to Carl. He tells Carl he better not be planning to sleep with Alison and Carl asks why he doesn’t just pick Brenda, since they’re both totally hoes together, he says that Brenda is just temporary excitement. In what universe? Again, Alison hears the whole thing.
Later Alison is drawing water for a bath and drinks wine with Carl while he starts to talk so sweetly to her while pumping her up. Alison is over Ron and Carl is pushing all the right buttons. They undress one another and start making love on the bed. While they’re making love, Alison calls Ron so he can hear the whole thing, interrupting him and Brenda. When he gets the call he barges into Carl and Alison’s room to stop them and gets Carl to leave with him. Once he gets Carl outside he hits him and tells him off. Carl pulls a baller move and lights his after sex cigarette before talking to Ron. Ron tells him Carl betrayed him and if Alison didn’t lose her memory it never would have happened. Carl tells Ron she isn’t a toy he can pull off the shelf when he’s bored with her. Brenda is snooping and doesn’t get why both guys are so into Alison. Ummm, calm down side piece, this is the role you chose.
Brenda pretends to “help” Alison by showing her photos of Alison and Ron together and tells her that Carl isn’t her real boyfriend and Ron is cheating on her. Alison is unphased and asks why is she supposed to care. Brenda realizes that Alison didn’t forget. Brenda threatens to tell the boys and Alison is like you can, but Ron will just come crawling back to her and Brenda knows it, so Brenda agrees to keep quiet. Ron doesn’t want Alison and Carl to sleep together again so he gets the girls to switch rooms so Ron and Carl can keep “talking.”
The next morning, the girls meet up with the boys at the corral to go riding. Carl and Alison are flirty and full of sexual innuendos while Brenda tries to flirt with Ron but he’s too busy glaring at the other couple. Carl and Alison spend the day riding double and picnic-ing together with Alison realizing Carl is a much better choice. When they take a break, Brenda sabotages their saddle only for Ron, trying to show off after a double sided conversation with Carl, to use the saddle instead. Ron can’t control the wild horse and gets thrown and Brenda runs in front of the horse to prevent Ron from being trampled. Carl is also hurt so everyone goes to the hospital.
Brenda broke her leg but Ron can’t stand to lose control of Alison so he dumps Brenda and tries to get back what was once his. Brenda swears revenge on ALISON! Really, c’mon! While Carl is getting treated, Alison goes to visit her mom where Ron tracks her down. He tells her he broke up with Brenda and admits seeing her with Carl in his spot is making him jealous. Girl, please, she doesn’t want a cheating ho like you!. Ron grabs her and tries to force himself on her when Carl returns and punch his lights out. Yay! Carl!
Alison pretends she doesn’t know anything about her and Ron and Carl headbutts him in the nose. Carl pulls him in and threatens him both bodily and with business, apparently Carl invested money into Ron’s family business. Carl takes care of Alison and confesses his feelings to her, but she’s still too distracted about the Ron drama to hear his words. Carl gets moved by her pretty eyes and starts whispering sweet somethings to her and he kisses her in the car.
Okay, I don’t usually talk about the fashions in Vertical Dramas because they’re usually good or at least ok, but this outfit, ugh. She’s wearing a sequined skirt, but the’re BIG sequins, then a yellow and green striped shirt with a white collar, a red with cream polka dot scarf around her neck like a tie, a cream purse and a super wide red belt. This outfit is so, so ugly. Anyway, apparently she used to dance and we get a flashback of Ron telling her it’s him or dance. He was always a dick, Alison, how did you not see that? Carl has arranged for them to go to her former mentor’s dance performance and gets her to dance. I hate this too. I mean, I do love a dancer and dance performance, don’t get me wrong, but she hasn’t danced in 5 years and she’s going to pull it off. Yuck. Oh, perfect! It’s Brenda’s dance crew and we know Brenda just broke her leg so yay, I’m sure she’ll be thrilled to hear Alison will take her place for her.
OMG! I took a break from this drama because I was watching a bunch of others and forgot about it and OMG! That outfit is still the UGLIEST thing I have ever seen. Okay, back to it…
Not! She’s pissed as expected. LOL. Her mean girl crew asks who the fuck is this girl? Brenda tells them she’s a quitter that was perfect but couldn’t handle the pressure. Alison says bet. Just before she goes onto the stage Brenda tells her that if she can’t dance, Alison can’t either and grabs her. Alison rightly throws all of her shitty moves back in her face and tells her it’s about saving the dance company and Brenda would have been dancing if she hadn’t done fucked up. Brenda grabs her by the arm again…C’mon Alison, sweep the leg, Johnny (LOL, only an 80s kid would get that reference). Ron shows and asks what’s up and Brenda tells him to tell Alison she can’t dance. Ron thinks she’s insane and can’t dance with her leg that way. She’s like BUT MEEEEEEE and Ron slaps her. Fuck Ron! Carl arrives and peps Alison up and sends her out to dance.
We get 5 seconds of dance moves spliced between shots of Ron, Carl and Brenda. The dance moves by the way consist of a arched back forward lean, a turn towards camera and posing set to music. Flashback to Carl at one of Brenda’s competitions with a bouquet of flowers that are stolen by Ron and handed to Alison. Carl has moon eyes for Alison as she walks off stage. There is a costume change before the next sequence and Brenda sabotages her by putting tacks into the STRAPPIEST shoes ever. They literally would have fallen out the sides is Alison used any force to grab them. She shoves her hooves into them and pulls back a bloody foot. Very quickly team Alison realizes it was Brenda who says too bad, so sad, now you can’t dance. Alison tells her to hold her beer. Her tiny ass feet (size 5 1/2) can’t find another pair of shoes so she lips off bleeding to go dance anyway.
Alison dances (jump rope crossed arms, over hand pose) and the winner is announced. Yup, Alison’s dance crew wins and she wins a special bestest dancer ever award. She says she couldn’t have done it without her true believer who has always loved and supported her. Ron gets up and straightens his suit and Carl is seated with his lap covered in a bouquet of flowers. She calls Ron to the stage….hahahah just kidding, of course she calls Carl. The audience is talking about how perfect they look together and Ron can’t keep his shit together. Ron tells Alison she’s being deceived and it is Ron who is her boyfriend. Carl tells Ron to fuck off, he was the one that actually supports Alison. Ron begs her to remember them together and Alison tells him she remembers nothing but if she did, it would be Carl who’s her boyfriend.
Later that night Carl and Alison are heading to bed (ooohhh, he’s wearing a tank top and shorts. Yum!) and he asks Alison if she could forgive him if she found out he lied to her about something. Now girl, confess now! Instead she plays dumb. Carl asked if Ron and Carl were both going for Alison, who would she choose and she doesn’t hesitate to say Carl. He asks why and she tells him he supports her and Ron was always mean to his girlfriend, then she clarifies with I mean, Brenda. Oooh, they start touching! Sigh.
The next day Carl is taking Alison home to meet the ‘rents (man, that slang is dating me LOL). Alison slips and says, but I’ve never met them before! Oops! You forgot that you “forgot”. She remembers what Ron told her about Carl’s family and she’s nervous, but Ron is a shithead and Carl’s parents are lovely and welcoming. They slap the family jewels on the table and Alison is overwhelmed by all their generosity. Alison tries to not accept it and voice overs that she’s been tricking him and feel guilty even though she has fallen in love with Carl. She get s phone call she leaves to take.
Alison gets a call from her mother’s doctor that she needs $40,000 for emergency surgery. Ron used to help pay for mom expenses so that’s out, and there is no way she’d use Carl like that. She looks down at her new bracelet, lies about a dance emergency and takes off. 3 seconds later, Carl get a call from the jeweler confirming there was nothing wrong with his purchase since it’s been returned. Carl has now been clued in that something is up.
Alison is sitting bedside with her mom planning to use the family gifts to pay for her mom and she’ll pick up extra dance classes to buy them all back, LOL Okay Alison, I’m sure you have $40,000 with of dance classes headed your way, Carl arrives and asks why she didn’t tell him. She makes excuses that she didn’t want to be a bummer to his family and asks if she has anything else to tell him. She doesn’t tell Carl about his bracelet or anything else. He has arranged for private care for her mom and takes Alison with him. He takes her to a garden that he bought for her BECAUSE HE REMEMBERED SHE LOVES FLOWERS. He tells her his family and her dance company will be arriving to a party to celebrate her return to dance. He tells her that nothing from their past matters, he’ll always be on her side and from now on he wants to be honest with her. Alison finally thinks it’s time to tell the truth and stupid Ron stumbles in and drops to one knee.
Ron asks about Alison’s mother and tries to remind Alison of how they cared for her together. Alison flashes back to Ron’s complete indifference to Alison’s mom and Carl was there secretly paying the whole time, so why didn’t they ask him about the emergency $40,000 surgery? Right on time, here comes Brenda! She’s preggo! Brenda and Alison fake hugs and Brenda tells her she won because she’s having his baby and Alison says she was worries she would have to take out that trash, but Brenda did it for her, thanks girl! Ron is not happy with the baby and makes noise about wanting Alison back and his babies will be with her. Both Carl and Alison tell him off for trying to dodge his responsibilities.
Brenda tries to get Ron to put a ring on it but Ron doesn’t want anything to do with her and pushes her down to the ground. Alison slaps him and tells him he’s heartless. Brenda for some reason thinks ALISON is the problem and rushes off into the party with Carl’s family and dance crew to tell them that Alison was with Ron for seven years and not Carl. Carl steps up and tells them yes, she was but when she had her amnesia, Ron tricked her into thinking Carl was her boyfriend and Carl asks her if she’s chosen him. Brenda reveals the amnesia was fake.
Ron’s like, you remember our good times and you’ll come back to me, right? Alison tells him she doesn’t love him anymore and she loves Carl. Mom is all wha??? You’ve been pretending and tricked my son? Brenda is all yaas Queen! Ask her where all the expensive presents you gave her are? Alison clarifies that she did fake it for revenge on Ron who was fucking her best friend but he just gave her away to someone else like a toy he didn’t want to play with anymore. Brenda is gleefully happy about the confession and asks again where are the presents? She sold them for cash. Carl announces Alison sold them for emergency surgery and he’s to blame for not noticing her struggles earlier.
Alison apologizes for lying for so long, but Carl said that he kinda knew and he played along because he was worried that if he acknowledged it he would lose her. Momma Carl puts two and two together realizes why she left the party early and announces she’s flying in the best surgeons for her mom. Alison is overwhelmed with the kindness and they said they did it because she’s Carl’s girlfriend so she’s family. Ron jumps back in and declares Alison his. She’s all, didn’t you hear me? I didn’t have amnesia and I watched you lie and scheme and be completely dirty so I’m team Carl now. Ron turns on Brenda shocked she knew too and didn’t tell him so he chokes her out and Carl has to pry him off her. Jeez, Alison is lucky he only cheated on her and didn’t start hitting her, yikes!
He unloads on Brenda about how she sucks and she isn’t even good enough to be the “other woman”. Ouch! She wasn’t good enough to be your side piece? But she’s been your side piece for YEARS. I can never understand how there are women out there content to be waiting for a guy who they know is in another relationship. Also, to be okay screwing over a friend like that…although I guess we can argue that they’re not really friends, but faking that friendship? Yuck. At least when it’s your step-sister who’s always hated you it doesn’t sting as much as your best friend. Brenda scream cries on the ground then pulls out a knife from her purse. Carl lunges for Alison, but Ron pushes him away and takes a knife to the gut. Brenda can’t believe what she’s done and is dragged away. Paramedics grab and carry Ron away. I guess production can’t afford a gurney. At the hospital, Alison gets the news that Ron was severely hurt, but ok. Then she asks the DOCTOR what happened with Brenda. Stupid, why would he know? Ahh, Brenda lost the baby during the arrest. And her family is making arrangements for her to leave town…stupid, she’s not going to jail?
Alison goes in to say “thanks, but that was stupid” and Ron tries to guilt her into being with him. She tells him she doesn’t hate him, but she doesn’t even want to acknowledge him in public. She returns to Carl’s waiting arms and he proposes! He was going to do it in the garden but he can’t not be with her another minute. Mom is wheeled in to witness it and for some reason she says yes. I guess she loves him. The final scene they are exchanging their vows and saying sweet things to each other. The end.
Spicy Highlights
Episode 10: Alison unbuttons Carl’s shirt and feels those delicious bumps and ridges. Carl strips Alison of her robe and lays her out on the bed before covering her with his body. Carl kisses all over Alison’s body.
Episode 22: Carl takes off his tank top. He unbuttons Alison’s shirt and pulls her body to him. They kiss and he turns her to the bed.
