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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-29 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 08:28:10 -0700
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On 5/30/24 5:02 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
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>> I watched:
> 
> You didn’t ask, which is OK because I didn’t watch anything.
> 
> [So, what did you watch?!]
I am mostly recovered from being sick (though am still kind of tired). 
Yesterday, I had to get through my last batch of exam grading (which, 
luckily, was a pretty small pile), and I did do that. I also submitted 
official grades for my second-to-last class. I am down to one single 
paper that I need to grade today, then once I am done with this final 
class, I am done for the year.

Yesterday, in between grading that last batch of exams, I finished 
catching up on soaps, and watched a couple of movies:

soaps:
    DOOL - Mon's thru Wed's ep's. Mostly, this was continued fallout of 
Eric returning Nicole's and "EJ's" baby storyline. Rafe and Eric 
discover that Sloan has skipped town (duh!), so I guess Sloan is 
officially written out. (I can't remember - Did Leo find out the baby 
was Eric's before the end?...) Meanwhile, Everett goes AWOL, though 
Marlena eventually runs across him, but he continues to to be resistant 
to therapy - so Marlena wants to stage an "intervention"!!... NuTheresa 
moves into the Kiriakis mansion, and Bonnie is, like, "You go, girl!" to 
the fellow gold-digger... Steve Burton is back (one more time?!) as 
Harris, as Harris, Ava and Lucas(!) head off to Montana to track down 
Clyde, and get a lead on the cute but EVOL!!! copette Goldman, and then 
Steve gives Ava another lead. But Ava still intends to "rub out" Clyde 
(I am guessing Harris will be killed in the crossfire?...).
    GH - Wed's ep. Are they setting up a "Who killed Ava?" storyline?! - 
Ava unnecessarily antagonizes Nina, who seems to relish sticking it to 
Ava (Maxie is concerned!). Then Ava gets into it with Josslyn about 
Dex's beating (dumb!). Later Alexis confronts Ava about Ava's role in 
Alexis' disbarment. Drew talks to dumb Willow about running for Congress 
(zzzzzz - and like a dumb b****, she doesn't try to talk him out of 
it!). Maxie realizes that Nina is starting to fall for Drew. Gregory's 
will is read. Finn apologizes to Lil' Lizzie for his drunken outburst at 
her.

I caught sucked into watching "Mad Max: Fury Road" (again) off one of 
the HBO's - it still looks pretty darn great even at 1080i.
    But I watched it muted (was listening to music), and that allowed me 
to sort of be annoyed by the storyline - Max and Furiosa are mortal 
enemies... no, now they're friends! And they're both mortal enemies of 
Nicholas Hoult's crazy follower character... until, suddenly Hoult's 
folds, and Riley Keough's in love with him!! WHAT?!!... Anyway, best not 
to think too hard about this one!

Conceived in Lies (streamed off the Lifetime app - it's good to know 
that the app has both recent Lifetime and LMN movies, making it a good 
resource for missed films in the future...).
    If you want to see a movie with a skinny Holly Deveaux being 
chronically frazzled and harried and crying, this film's for you!
    Luckily, it improves in the last 2/3, and becomes a decent thriller, 
if not a great mystery.
    Deveaux plays a hardscrabble widow, who (dumbly) gets herself in 
vitro'ed with what she thinks is her and her dead husband's embryo, and 
has the baby. Of course, she can't really afford any of this, as a 
single mom, and works for a bitchy, pitiless boss (Alana Hawley Purvis) 
who seems like she never had a mother, and has no conception of what 
motherhood entails!
    Anyway, of course, on top of all of this, Deveaux's baby gets sick, 
with some weird genetics-caused disease. After getting "help" from a 
reporter (Matthew James Dowden) and investigating a bit, they discover 
other in vitro babies from the same fertility clinic with the same 
disease, pointing in the direction of a common parentage (specifically, 
paternity) among them.
    From here, it's not hard to figure out the identity of the perp. But 
what was enjoyable about this is the lengths the EVOL!!1! fertility 
clinic (or whoever there is behind all of this!) is willing to go to 
keep this all under wraps!
    FTR, I don't like that Deveaux has gone blond. And I was amused that 
her character was supposed to be 37 (Deveaux herself is likely just 
around 30). But I enjoyed this for what it was.