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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-21 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 09:04:07 -0700
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On 5/22/2025 7:07 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 5/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Multi-day catch-up here (I don't know how many! I don't think I've done 
> one of these since Sunday...).
> 
> Mostly, I've watched soaps since my last WDYW? post.
> 
> soaps: DOOL - Xander beats Philip to a bloody pulp, nearly killing him - 
> in revenge! Philip sort of throws Sarah under the bus. Alex gets 
> Stephanie's trashy manuscript to Kate to review/edit, but does this 
> before Stephanie pleads with Alex to drop shopping it! (Oops!) The show 
> continues to annoy me in writing people I like out (I think Rafe just 
> disappeared off the show without as much as a goodbye!) and bringing on 
> new people I don't care - the latest is (Nu)Gabi's daughter Ari (as a 
> child, Ari was a blonde - now she's full-on Latina played by Marissa 
> Reyes!!). I am hoping, though, that Ari will effectively replace 
> NuSophia on the show, as I don't like NuSophia at all here.
>     GH - As the divorce/custody hearing for Willow's kids nears, Carly 
> reverts to evil bitch form and she and Nina come to blows (honestly, I 
> was hoping Nina would just kill Carly!). It looks like they have already 
> recast Michael (after publicly announcing months ago that they had "no 
> plans to recast the part"! makes my hopeful that Y&R will do the same 
> with Summer Newman after publicly announcing the same!). Curtis fishes 
> for info from Drew and gets Drew to admit that he is blackmailing 
> Portia. Drew has Tracy arrested after framing her for drugging him. Lulu 
> gets closer to proving that Gio is Brook Lynn's son. The Nurses Ball 
> begins, with Nina forced to co-host the "Red Carpet Show" with Drew - 
> there were some good bits in here.
> 
> On Monday, I put "Wild Cards" and "Family Law" (on the All DEAD! CW!!) 
> on as background noise. I payed no attention to "Wild Cards", but I 
> actually mostly watched "Family Law" - it makes me sad how old Jewel 
> Staite looks now.  :(  Also, they try to ruin this show by including 
> Lauren Holly! but luckily she was in very few scenes in the epie. 
> Genelle Williams is also in the cast of this show. Anyway, they kind of 
> play "Family Law" as funny/wacky, with Staite's character seeming 
> permanently exasperated.
> 
> Last night, I put the "Chicago" shows on - they were airing their season 
> finales:
> 
> Chicago Med - I was floored when Rachel DiPillo showed up in this 
> episode! She literally hasn't acted since 2018 when she left this show 
> at the start of season #4! but I guess she's shown up in a few episodes 
> in the current season (10) of "Med" that I did not know about! I wonder 
> if DiPillo is poised to rejoin this show, at least as a recurring 
> character.
> 
> Chicago Fire - Contrived malarkey in which the captain played by Dermot 
> Mulroney is accused of murder!! and Severide had to clear his name. Bah.
> 
> Chicago PD - I swear - every season finale of this show I have ever seen 
> is the same - they are always "Voight episodes", and in every single one 
> of them some corrupt higher up in Chicago's PD is always trying to shut 
> down Voight's Intelligence unit! In this one, Voight takes care of the 
> problem by having the higher up executed in front of a bunch of fellow 
> cops!! Wow. At least they're not getting away from the "Voight is really 
> a bad guy" origin story!... I reiterate again, though - Burgess (Marina 
> Squerciati) cannot carry this show alone! They need another hottie in 
> the cast ASAP!... Anyway, at the end, Burgess and Ruzek get married. [roll]
> 
> 
> What did you watch?
> 
> 

I watched:

Family Guy - I binged through a few episodes of the current season.  I'm 
way behind and still have about a half dozen episodes to go to catch up.


Survivor - I watched the season finale.


The Last of Us - I forgot to mention this the other day, I watched the 
latest episode.  It was a flashback episode, but OK.