The After movies deliver exactly what teen audiences want to see: A heart-wrenching, steamy, epic romance. But fantasy is often a terrible roadmap for …
The After movies deliver exactly what teen audiences want to see: A heart-wrenching, steamy, epic romance. But fantasy is often a terrible roadmap for real-life relationships. Critics who called out the 2019 romance for glamorizing abusive relationships will find even more to support their thesis in its sequel, After We Collided, which released on-demand today. But stars Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin say that the unhealthy nature of Tessa and Hardin’s love is just part of the story. “It’s difficult to view it objectively because you sort of have to be in her headspace,” Langford told Decider in a phone interview. “But they don’t [have a healthy relationship], and that’s the story. That’s exactly what the story is about: It’s about two people who don’t communicate, and there are a lot of problems.
