365 Days

No one's getting lucky with this terrible (and potentially damaging) erotic thriller sequel 'The Next 365 Days'.

Honestly, this film is so terrible it makes the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy look like high art. [Duffy wrote an open letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings accusing the film of “glamourising the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape”](https://www.nme.com/news/music/duffy-criticises-netflix-for-glamourising-rape-in-movie-365-days-2700219). Yes, this sequel to 365 Days and 365 Days: This Day is absolute trash, but it’s not nearly as much fun as that makes it sound.

Drama, drama, drama! While there's no more books in the original novel series to adapt, the movie has a pretty ambiguous ending that could leave the door open ...

At the end of The Next 365 Days, Laura and Massimo reunite on a beach in Sicily. The future of Laura and Massimo in the films, however, is left open-ended. But of course, all of that depends on how many viewers tune in to watch the third film. The third film adapts the story from the third book, with both of them wrapping up Laura and Massimo's relationship in different ways. The third – and currently final – instalment of the series sees Laura (Sieklucka) somehow survive the brutal shooting at the end of the second film, and follows as she and Massimo (Morrone) work through their own issues, on top of her having a spicy affair with Nacho (Susinna) behind Massimo's back. The Next 365 Days (a.k.a 365 Days: Part 3), starring Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone and Simone Susinna, dropped on Netflix on August 19th.

The third instalment in the erotic thriller series, The Next 365 Days, has just arrived on Netflix, but will there be a fourth film?

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365 Days 3 book changes - The Next 365 Days has arrived on Netflix and if you read the book, you'll have noticed that the movie was wildly different.

By comparison, the movie is a breeze as none of this happens and it Their relationship is strained (as it is in the movie), but things get much darker in the book. Given the changes in the third movie, it has a more open-ended finale that suggests we're not done with this story yet. Either way, the result is the same as Laura ends up losing her baby as a result of the traumatic event. While living with Nacho, she receives a package which is her dead dog (Massimo bought her a dog as a gift) in a box. Author Blanka Lipińska co-wrote all three movies in the trilogy adaptation of her own novels, so the changes aren't somebody going rogue. Laura eventually gets away with Nacho, they get engaged and in an epilogue, it's revealed that they have a daughter together. She's held against her will by Massimo (again) after she discovers he was the one who killed the dog. [book series by Blanka Lipińska](https://www.amazon.co.uk/365-Days-1/dp/139850596X), but it's now clear to see why the [official announcement](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-announces-the-start-of-production-for-365-days-part-2-and-part-3) at the start of production on the second and third movies said that they were "loosely based" on the books. Even with this change, the movie could have adapted the book more closer if it chose to, but we should be grateful it didn't. Usually when you've read a book series, you can roughly know what to expect from the movie adaptations. However, the movie ended up doing

The ending of the third and final movie The Next 365 Days on Netflix explained. What the final scene meant and what end means for Laura, Nacho and Massimo.

The only sort of answer the book does give, is that in that, Laura choses Nacho and Massimo agrees to a divorce. The plot of the third book is completely different to the third film, including Massimo killing Laura’s dog, Laura being an alcoholic, and needing a heart transplant. After saying he’s been left broken from finding out Laura went through the loss of their baby alone, and that she turned to Nacho, Massimo asks her one last time, “Are you back, babygirl?” to which Laura just stands there. Of course, she says Nacho is a good person, and pleads Laura gives him a chance to explain himself. Laura all but tells Nacho she wants to be with him, but needs more time to sort things with Massimo. Laura and Massimo’s story has come to and end, and we’ll no longer have more films where all we do is watch them have sex and occasionally chat about mafia stuff.

As expected, Laura did not die in the shooting, although she was injured. The only real death is of Massimo's evil twin brother, Adriano. Anna also died. But ...

The Next 365 Days does not have a post-credits scene. However, the movie does not tell us definitively whether or not Laura and Massimo got back together or if she went back to Nacho. He’s more upset that his own actions pushed Laura away from him and she had to deal with the loss of the baby alone. Most of the movie is spent with Laura trying to decide between Massimo and Nacho. But Laura survived the shooting. Well, the end is officially here, at least for now.

'The Next 365 Days,' the third entry in Netflix's moronic Polish softcore franchise, reduces a proudly yuck premise to a limp love triangle.

Though she’s referring to her deeply uninvolving romantic dilemma, it’s hard not to hear her speaking with the wistful voice of the Netflix accountancy department, as they, and they alone, offer up a prayer that there might be many more “365 Days” to come. Granted, the songs are 100% indistinguishable and all the lyrics appear written by the same algorithm that generates the dialogue: Who knows what to make of a sex scene scored to a gravel-voiced chorus of “Fuck society?” Still, 25! Indeed, the only contributors who don’t appear completely tapped out by the end of “The Next 365 Days” are those with arguably the most reason to be. One wants to ball her in the Mediterranean, the other wants “to meditate with her in Bali.” Tomasz Mandes and Mojca Tirš, co-writing with the books’ author Blanka Lipinska, already distanced “This Day” from the original film’s queasy rapiness, but now seem eager to engineer a full 180. During one would-be dramatic confrontation between Laura and Massimo, it’s hard not to be distracted by the handprints on the glass rooftop railing between them that glint greasily in the lens flare. Nacho, who absconded with Laura, aka “baby girl” (still ick), in episode two and was then revealed to be the scion of another Sicilian gangster clan, attends a post-bloodbath parlay with Massimo.

The original book series by Blanka Lipinska only consisted of three books and Netflix has now adapted and released all three, 365 Days, 365 Days: This Day and ...

Do you want to see 365 Days 4 get made? If Netflix does decide to greenlight 365 Days 4, perhaps it will be told from Massimo’s point of view. For now, all fans can do is watch and rewatch the movies on Netflix and show support on social media if they want to see a fourth film get made.