Path: local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 09:12:41 +0000 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-18 (Saturday) From: Ubiquitous X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.12N (x86 32bit) Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 04:30:40 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: Injection-Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 08:30:40 -0000 Lines: 108 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-JILr73NT9oWtkEPCGzQmgr/fdehjWa80l7EESkT+qp8+DmlW1Gd32RlWOe4dV2wiofxeH+8m6QM5tX7!KlPe9JnjMuRuWhpD5T3zNGKUg0kyTVCTHcdpjcQ6Po8KvF4BqA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 6241 I watched: HELEN SLATER Reflects On What She Saw On Set with FAYE DUNAWAY: Helen Slater (Supergirl, The Legend of Billie Jean) joins us this week to talk about her experience being thrust into the iconic role of Supergirl at 18 years old and the many different pressures and difficulties that came along with it. Helen was so open this week - she gets candid about her desire to act and the deep fulfillment that she receives in studying mythology. We also talk about her deep bond with Helen Hunt, the hurdle she had to cross to get her parents’ acceptance for acting, and memories of iconic scenes while appearing in Smallville. https://youtu.be/8zHb35ytj8Q?si=PYqXuOpa5Khm_1sp WATCH THIS WIFE ON TIKTOK BRAG ABOUT HOW BAD OF A PARTNER SHE IS: A video of a woman bragging about all of the household chores she refuses to do went viral. Many women are cheering her on. https://youtu.be/acgjLx1hD48?si=Pr29AkIP5njIHUAu ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: I'm not sure if it's from oversaturation or I no longer find aging baby boomers desperately trying to cling to their youth funny now. I also realized I am now older than Patsy and Edina. :-O "Fashion". P.R. consultant Edina - Eddy - Monsoon wakes up with a hangover - again - but gets no sympathy from sensible student daughter Saffy as she had promised Saffy she would book into a clinic. Eddy is organizing a fashion show later in the day but the celebrities keep dropping out and finally,encouraged by her equally alcoholic friend magazine editor Patsy Stone, Eddy pulls off a successful show by blackmailing stars into taking part. In the evening she gets Patsy to phone Saffy pretending to be from the clinic awaiting Eddy's admission "Fat". Edina has put on weight and has trouble getting into her clothes so she is horrified when her secretary Bubble informs her of a forthcoming visit by pencil slim Penny Caspar-Morse,who once teased her about her weight. She is not keen on Saffy's idea that she takes exercise,the doctor will not give her slimming pills and,after a nightmare,decides against Patsy's suggestion of liposuction. However,when Penny arrives,it seems she has been temporarily blinded,so Eddy will get away with it - or will she? "France".Eddy and Patsy are off to France but find themselves staying, not in the expected chateau but a tiny cottage where they feel threatened by an old Frenchman whose language they cannot understand. When Saffy and Bubble arrive, usual air-head Bubble surprises with her perfect French, explaining that he was inviting them to move into the chateau further up the road. A pleasant holiday results though. On the return home, Customs find a white powder in Patsy's luggage, which turns out to be perfectly harmless - to her annoyance. "ISO Tank". Banned from attending Saffron's college open day, Edina tries to get her own back by threatening to adopt a Romanian baby, a scheme which totally backfires. "Birthday". On her 40th birthday, Edina must deal with her conflicted feelings about reaching the milestone age, and the grim family party Saffron has arranged for the occasion. "Magazine". While making one of her sporadic appearances at work, Patsy is roped into appearing on television in a makeover segment, and is forced to turn to Saffron for help. "Hospital". Eddy is in hospital with a sore foot and Patsy has booked in for facial surgery in readiness for a gossip magazine interview about a recent indiscretion. They are both very demanding patients. Whilst under anaesthetic Eddy dreams she is dying and surrounded by a glamorous version of her real family. When she wakes up she finds the pain was caused by an acupuncture needle which went astray whilst Patsy's treatment is a disaster. "Death". When Edina's father passes away, Saffron is horrified by her mother's lack of grief, which soon manifests itself in a realisation of her own mortality. "Morocco". Patsy and Eddy go to Marrakesh in Morocco,accompanied by Saffy,who is on a college project,staying with lecherous 'Uncle' Humphrey,whose advances Saffy rejects. After Eddy has revealed that Patsy once had an unsuccessful sex change here they get robbed and Patsy sells Saffy to white slavers for money. The two older women travel into the desert for the shoot,meeting Saffy whom Eddy convinces they were looking for. Back at the villa Patsy and Eddy get stoned whilst Saffy has a sexual adventure with Humphrey's young local servant. SVENGHOULIE: "Blackula". An African prince bitten by Dracula stalks the Los Angeles night in search of his lost princess. DOCTOR WHO: "Underworld". On the edge of the universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 encounter a Minyan ship on an epic quest to find their race banks... but their people have encountered the Time Lords before. Wow! There was a LOT of (bad) chromakey used in this ep! BRANDON'S CULT MOVIE REVIEWS: STUDENT BODIES (RE-UPLOAD): Before the "Scary Movie" series there was the 1981 slasher parody "Student Bodies"! https://youtu.be/fi_EjzUL_uY?si=HKCxP2rGjB7iJ1aQ THIS AGED GREAT! EPISODE 6: LAST TANGO IN PARIS: https://youtu.be/nvpUSIiuLZo?si=gFund5uCVTMzC9pu What did you watch? -- Let's go Brandon!