One Of Us Likes You [2025] & Fated To Miss: The Luna In his Dreams [2024]

As our picks get more obscure, my ability to find good images for them starts to wane. Our first short film of the night was "One Of Us Like You." After an awkward meeting between a girl who curiously can't find her house and a guy who seemingly has multiple personalities, a date ensues. Her entire backstory is a little off, and he is constantly switching between Eli (the normal, nerdy guy who likes her), a morning routine filming pick up artist, a stereotypical anxiety-ridden glasses wearer, and eventually fourth personality based described as jerkass. She's completely cool with his DID, but then reveals that she was his online friend who disappeared one day. Apparently he finds this too weird and kicks her out. Months later he has a new girlfriend who is annoying and he has gone back to making friends online, seemingly talking to the girl he rejected for stalking him.

This film had a couple funny moments but wasn't really bad enough. Just odd.

Spoon Rating: 3

Our second film, however, was an absolute banger of a vertical drama. Titled on YouTube as "Forced Love: True Love Is Around" but actually called Fated to Miss: The Luna In His Dreams, this is a werewolf romance where no one ever turns into a wolf. Two young werewolves named Snow and Silver make a blood pact to be together when they find each other again as they run away from a hunter. Years later, Daniel Bloodthrone, Alpha of his clan, is engaged to marry Amelia Hurricano, who is adopted and her dad hates her and wants to marry her off. Neither of them want this because they are looking for their true loves, Snow and Silver respectively. How long can a misunderstanding trope go on for you ask? Oh, so much longer than is reasonable. 

Right before the wedding, Amelia is tortured by a girl named Lilith who wants Daniel, and Lilith gets her blood oath ring in the process. Both Lilith and Daniel's beta, Leon, are in love with Daniel and want to break up the marriage. Over time, Daniel and Amelia organically fall in love, deciding to forget about their true loves and blood oaths and just bang. For a second, everything is perfect as they realize they were Snow and Silver all along, until Lilith shows up spouting memories that Snow had and wearing Snow's blood oath ring. Daniel, being the stupidest man on the planet, is now confused about whether Amelia or Lilith is actually Snow. Amelia is very rightfully pissed. She has an altercation with Lilith that ends with Lilith stabbing her in the collarbone and killing Elizabeth, Amelia's maid and friend, which rightfully drives Amelia to rage. This is broken up by Leon confessing his feelings for Daniel, who is again confused, and then Leon himself because he knows he can never be with Daniel. 

Later, Amelia and Daniel bump into each other at Elizabeth's grave and Daniel begs Amelia to take him back. And for once in one of these vertical dramas, we get acting that feels real as Amelia dumps him, says she can't trust him, and tells him to grow up. Daniel responds by stabbing himself, a very mature counterpoint. Amelia basically says, "Here's a tissue to stop the bleeding, and I'll go get a doctor, but I'm out." She leaves him and nine months later gives birth to a girl. A true happy ending. 

This was excellent. It had all the hallmarks of a vertical drama - the weird acting, the melodrama, the poor editing - but it has the added benefits of dumb werewolf lore and a main character who turned out to actually be a genuinely reasonable person who won't put up with a stupid man's shit. What a win.

Spoon Rating: 8