Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-15 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:26:21 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 49
Message-ID: <v4nhpd$78kp$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v4mudb$3ibc$1@dont-email.me> <v4n4kp$47m9$1@dont-email.me>
 <v4nb9b$5vmo$2@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:26:21 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bfa31fb7ed43ce92f5d71dd1753098cd";
	logging-data="238233"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+AAIdgpPes01fi6LifMabry3slPzd5FOk="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:GrEbMv3l7Lmu3lBT53JgKU5ZKQc=
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <v4nb9b$5vmo$2@dont-email.me>
Bytes: 3162

On 6/16/2024 11:35 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> golf - Bah! Bryson DeChambeau surged on Day 3 of the U.S. Open to take a
>> 3 stroke lead. I'm not saying DeChambeau has this thing sown up, but he
>> does seem to have this thing mostly sown up, unless he chokes on the
>> final day.
> 
> Si? Si. Sue. See. Sigh.
> 
> sewn
> 
> He's not sowing seeds.
> 
>> Yoga Teacher Killer: The Kaitlin Armstrong Story (Lifetime) - This was
>> pretty much exactly what I expected - Lifetime's take is, not
>> surprisingly, that Armstrong was an incredibly insecure/needy, bat-shit
>> *crazy* woman.
> 
> Never heard of this plot before.
> 
>>     (I like how the subplot was that Armstrong's background in "finance"
>> made her a bad yoga teacher! - Like "finance" is somehow the root of all
>> EVOL!!1!  ;>  )
> 
> Now there's that Lifetime plot.
> 
>>     Armstrong here is played by Caity Lotz (is this typecasting?!  ;p  ).


I recognized the name but had to look her up to put a face to the name. 
This looks to be her first project since Legends.  I hope she made this 
movie by choice instead of out of necessity.


>>     The movie also posits that her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Colin
>> Strickland the cyclist (Kyle Schmid), was a major dummy and douche bag,
>> something you could easily pick up from the concurrent articles on the
>> case as it unfolded in 2022. (Though his friend in the film who dumps
>> him after the murder comes off as an even bigger douche that Strickland!)
>>     The victim, Moriah Wilson (Larissa Dias, who earlier in her career
>> went by Larissa Albuquerque), is portrayed as completely innocent and an
>> unjustified victim, which seems right.
>>     It's amazing that Armstrong was able to beat it out of the country
>> like she did - the movie portrays it like she was just 2 minutes ahead
>> of the cops, but I doubt it was that dramatic. The movie also sort of
>> implies that Armstrong's sister was complicit in this, but she was never
>> charged AFAIK.