Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: suzeeq Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-10 (Monday) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:35:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:35:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1629364"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:bJ/bJ6jYH2JCBPGJcCNbDPVs0XM= Content-Language: en-US X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLhEI65JTPv4Td+SFY1+g0X1/k0Rwi0gw7qnJnsOpfVqFCKP66N0MF2u8HG0oRQw== In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3970 Lines: 62 On 6/11/2024 10:03 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: > On 6/11/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: > >> I watched: >> >> Doomsday Machine - Nostalgia Critic: >> Nostalgia Critic takes a look at the Sci-Fi public domain classic >> Doomsday >> Machine. >> https://youtu.be/TBgUk2ZGsx8?si=XkAcV5vHunwq-9fu > > Wow, a movie from 1976 is already in the public domain?! - Somebody > really f**ked up to make that happen!! > > And this one actually has an UMDb cast list mostly full of actor > portrait pics!! > > But 2.6/10 (>1000 votes) on IMDb is pretty bad. > >> What did you watch? > > Ran morning errands, watched soaps, caught a movie on Tubi, and finally > started in on a streaming series I've been meaning to get to for a > while...: > > soaps: DOOL - Well, that sucks. They (specifically Xander) killed off > Constantine. This also means that NuTheresa gets off scot free, and > because Constantine only hinted at Alex really not being Victor's son, > everyone is still in the dark about that too. All in all, disappointing. > And, to cap it all off John is being "Pawnified" on the spot, and may > kill an already shot Steve!... Bah! All may not be as it seems.... > > Station Eleven (Max) - First two episodes of the Max Original Series. >    This is a very odd show. >    I thought episode #1 was much stronger than episode #2, and it looks > likely to me that episode #1 will be the strongest of the bunch, > unfortunately. >    This is a "apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic" series, but not in the > usual "Mad Max"/"The Walking Dead" kind of way. >    Episode #1 deals with a sudden plague that wipes most of humanity > out in less than a few months, mostly focusing on "Day One" - Jeevan a > failing(?) internet "journalist" is at a staging of King Lear(?) when > the play's lead star drops dead. He ends up having to chaperone one of > the child actresses in the play, Kirsten (Matilda Lawler as a child; > Mackenzie Davis as an adult in the flashforward), in the chaos. He soon > gets a call from his doctor sister who tells him to immediately get to > their loner brother's apartment and hunker down until this "flu/plague" > passes. So, he takes the child actress with him to the brother's place. >    This is pretty much what happens in episode #1, and at least it was > compelling. >    Episode #2 is mostly 20 years in the future (in "2040"), after the > plague wiped most people out, and now the survivors are wandering > around. Kirsten has gotten herself in with a roaming "theater troupe", > headed by Lori Petty which travels the country putting on Shakespearean > plays. But, of course, some creepy types start showing up. >    I found this stuff *much less interesting* than episode #1. If the > remaining 8 episodes spend most of the time in 2040, this show is going > to be a slog... > It was kind of a slog, but I kept watching to see where it was going.