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Verity

If you like trashy romance novels, thrilling drama, Verity came out in October 2, 2026, under MGM (now rebranded under new ownership Amazon MGM Studios). It’s not really the sort of film that I’m interested in, but hottie Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) co-stars with Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diary), so I decided to give it a try.

The film is about Lowen Ashleigh (played by Johnson) agreeing to ghost-write novels for a popular series written by Verity Crawford (played by Hathaway). The reason why Lowen was asked to write the novels is because the real Verity was in a car accident that left her in a vegetative state.

As part of the research and writing process, Lowen moved into Verity’s house. She read some unfinished manuscripts… but also discovered a secret autobiography. It’s darker than you would expect, as you read that it’s really a confession that Verity killed her son. Again, at this point in the story, you’re not sure if this is factual or is it all fiction?

The film plays out like a bad romance novel, as Lowen started having an affair with Verity’s husband. You also start to question if Verity is actually in a coma, or is all this some complicated plot.

I did kind of suspect what was going on, considering that things aren’t what they seemed. However, my theory is crazier than what the movie offers. I thought this was a huge scam to tricking Lowen to write the third Verity novel. The twist is that there was a previous ghost writer who they murdered to keep the secret and the credit of the Verity novels.

When the twisty plot reached the end, you realized the truth – and it’s all pretty good. So, I looked it up, and the movie is based on a novel of the same name, by Colleen Hoover. Hoover is famous for another romance novel called It Ends with Us, which was also adapted into a movie in 2024.

The Body

Girl drama The Body premiered on Netflix on November 11. I saw the trailer, and it looks like a supernatural/horror… but after watching the entire series – it’s really about a group of Catholic schoolgirls misbehaving.

It starts off with a Catholic school dance team. They were looking for new dancer. As part of the initiation for the new dance member, the girls took the new member, Grace, to “Devil’s House” on Halloween to take ecstasy and party. As a prank, the girls offered Grace’s soul to the devil, in exchange for the dance team to win Regional. That night, the dance captain, Anya, finds Grace passed out in the garden. She and her new friend Lisbeth took Grace home after borrowing Anya’s boyfriend’s car.

The rest of the series is basically Anya and Lisbeth covering up what happened Halloween nnight. Anya started seeing Grace in her vision, and the other girls on the team started faking seeing her too – causing a mass hysteria. One thing leads to another, and pretty soon everything is out of control. There’s a lot of teenage girl drama in the series, so if you’re into the cat-ness of it all, these kitties have claws. And yes, there’s lesbian love, what else did you expect?

You know, the irony of the show is that that whole sacrificing Grace to Satan, so they can win Regional… Yes, they got exactly what they asked for. Is it coincidental? Or did they really make a bargain with Satan?

While I was hoping for a more fantasy/supernatural horror show, the show explains away any sort of mystery. Like, the religious visions were all faked – except for Anya. The show did keep me interested enough to keep watching to find how all of this will sort out.

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