Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-20 (Thursday) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:32:00 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 121 Message-ID: References: <7mnb7j9pplh9p8q6d8fndon4v0ra3rqbid@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 02:25:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="32a55f3397910c0303e303f1773c8293"; logging-data="3588469"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+AEvcM+CDLSbt6I/vqRxiNBvuGE4kSZLk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:RQzj4dVpbTGHMfaAwF6mDxXBRGg= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <7mnb7j9pplh9p8q6d8fndon4v0ra3rqbid@4ax.com> Bytes: 6847 On 6/21/2024 1:23 PM, shawn wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:15:23 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb > wrote: > >> On 6/21/2024 9:24 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> On 6/21/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote: >>> >>>> What did you watch? >>> >>> On the last workday of the (summer!) work week, I watched soaps and some >>> more movies!: >>> >>> soaps: DOOL - This was mostly set up for the "prom" episode that will >>> come Friday. (Uh, it's mid- to late-June - Do HS's *anywhere* have prom >>> this late in the year?!!) Anyway, NuTate's date (can't remember her >>> name) overhears Tate and his friend (can't remember his name) talking >>> about prom, and realizes that Tate isn't interested in her and is just >>> using her to get close to Holly - later, Tate's date rats out their >>> scheme to NuTheresa! So they're going to get busted on Friday. >>> Meanwhile, Theresa has a disturbing dream about giving it all up for >>> Brady! Stefan forces EJ to reveal he's DA again to Nicole. >>>    GH - Finn's bosses refuse to let him back to work, and he takes it >>> about as well as expected. Spinelli gets the audio file of Carly's >>> incriminating confession that Jagger has been holding over Jason and >>> makes a copy for Sam, who beelines it to Carly. >>>    Y&R - I only saw a little bit of this - Victoria's younger daughter >>> still resents the insertion of Claire into their lives. Claire >>> commiserates with Kyle (I can't even figure it out - are they blood >>> relatives, or not?! I think they're not...). >>> >>> Target: My Daughter (Tubi) - This was interesting - this 2017 thriller >>> felt too low-budget to be a Lifetime flick (IOW, even lower budget than >>> a Hybrid Films flick!), so it never made it to Lifetime. >>>    Also, I have a theory that Yancy Butler has been blackballed by >>> Lifetime >> >> I thought she was blacklisted by Hollywood in general. > > Is it really a black list when your own actions with alcohol have lead > people to feel like she wouldn't be a reliable performer. Same difference. ;-) Though she's > clearly gotten plenty of roles over the years. Nothing major but at > least she's been able to keep working. Though nothing in the last few > years. > > I was surprised to see her name. I haven't seen her name pop up in anything since Witchblade. >> (I think she appeared in a Lifetime film or two a decade or >>> more ago, but has not been in a Lifetime flick in at least a decade!), >>> so they probably wouldn't take a movie with her anyway... >>>    But it also stars Karis Cameron, c. 2017 - so between Cameron doing >>> "Open Heart" in 2015 and her first Lifetime flick (which was "Identity >>> Theft of a Cheerleader") in 2019 - back when Karis Cameron was still >>> young and beautiful (and before she put on the weight, post-2020 - >>> Cameron effectively hasn't worked since 2022). >>>    Anyway, in this, Cameron's character witnesses the murder of her >>> father (via cell phone), by a gangster (Aurelio Di Nunzio), and so she >>> and her mother (Butler) - who, of course, happens to be ex-special >>> forces or something - are put into witness protection (the original >>> title of this flick was "Witness Protection") in a coastal village >>> somewhere (this couldn't look more like British Columbia if they tried!!). >>>    And, of course, the gangster sends a hitman (hey! it's Sebastian >>> Spence!) after them. >>>    This was barely OK, but I enjoyed Butler's twitchy performance as >>> sort of crummy mom-type, and Karis Cameron has perhaps never looked >>> better than here. >>> >>> Prowl (2010) (Tubi) - OK, I am about 95% sure I have seen this 2010 >>> flick before, most likely on the Chiller channel back in the midish-2010s. >>>    This has an even more laughable crediting sitch' than the movies I >>> watched on Wednesday - the indisputable "star" of this 2010 horror flick >>> is Courtney Hope (before she f**ked up her looks and got gigs on B&B and >>> Y&R - Hope is naturally thin-lipped as you can see here, but in later >>> life she has refused to accept this fact...  :/  ) - anyway, Hope is >>> credited *third* in the film's primary end-credits, and *fifth*!! in the >>> film's cast list credits. Despite being the film's clear lead!! That's >>> ridic. >> >> She needs a better agent. > > I only know her from her role in the game, CONTROL. She's great in > that game. Haven't seen Y&R in years since I only saw it when visiting > my parents. > >>>    Anyway, Hope's character ropes in a bunch of friends (among them, a >>> young Perdita Weeks (after she did "The Tutors" but before "As Above, So >>> Below"), Ruta Gedmintas and Josh Bowman (from "Revenge")) to accompany >>> her to Chicago. For [reasons], they are eventually to be transported >>> there by a truck driver played by Bruce Payne - hint: if your driver is >>> played by Bruce Payne, he is up to no good. >>>    From this point, the film doesn't waste anytime in getting to >>> (improbable!) horror. >>>    This was about on part with Wed's flick "Underground" - it's a >>> decent "ride", once it gets started. >>>    P.S. In this one, Perdita Weeks has arguably the most horrific death >>> scene.  :/ >>> > >>> >>> What did you watch? >>> >> >> I watched: >> >> >> The Boys - "Wisdom of the Ages" - I'm not even going to try and >> summarizing it. But I guess it was OK. > > Is that episode 4? Haven't got to that just yet. The season is > definitely pushing the edges. > Yes, episode 4. This episode continues the tradition of pushing limits.