365 Days 3 Undid The Sequel’s Shocking Twist (Again)

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While the first four minutes of The Next 365 Days don’t explicitly confirm that the trilogy’s heroine, Laura, is not dead, the final 365 Daysmovie’s teaser does effectively seem to retcon the shocking ending of 365 Days: This Day. For most critics, the success of the 365 Days franchise is a mystery. Essentially a raunchier, more risqué retelling of 50 Shades of Gray — which itself is an R-rated retelling of the Twilight saga — the badly-reviewed 365 Days series is massively popular on Netflix despite its frequently criticized writing and acting.

The primary appeal of the 365 Days movies appears to be the franchise’s combination of extremely explicit sex scenes and campy soap operatics. Amid its erotic interludes, the365 Days movies feature a string of absurdly unlikely twists that keep viewers guessing and stretch the disbelief of even the most forgiving fans. As if to underline this, the first four minutes ofThe Next 365 Days, featuring Anna-Maria Sieklucka reprising her role as the apparently still-alive Laura Biel, revealed that 365 Days: This Day’s ending was a fake-out lifted verbatim from the original 365 Days.

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The critically derided Netflix trilogy released the first four minutes of its final installment, and despite what the ending of 365 Days: This Day heavily implied, it turns out that the second movie in the series didn’t kill off its heroine, Laura. This sort of cliffhanger ending could be acceptable in most circumstances, as it is not unusual for thrillers to end on exciting, ambiguous notes only for the next movie in the series to save the protagonist’s life thanks to some unlikely plot contrivance. However, what makes the opening of The Next