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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-08 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 13:20:19 -0700
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On 6/9/25 7:28 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

> What Did You Watch?

soaps: GH - Fri's ep. Nina admits to Sasha that she threw Nina and her 
baby daddy under the bus to Ric to try to save custody of the kids for 
dumb Willow - for once, Sasha doesn't double-down on stupid and let's it 
go. I can't remember if it was before or after this, but then Nina goes 
to Drew - Drew wants to go after Nina for drugging him with the hooker, 
but Nina reminds him that they will both lose if Willow finds out... I 
think Nina talked Drew out of doing anything. Michael seems less down on 
Willow after she delivered his and Sasha's baby - at the end, they 
together show their kids the new baby, which a jealous Drew observes... 
The rest of this was Natalia or Sonny stuff, which I don't care about... 
Cody spends some after work time with NuNuNuMolly (who is probably my 
favorite Molly, though I also liked NuMolly (2 Mollys ago) a lot too), 
and in a foreshadowing, he mentions Britt (Kelly Thiebaud, the Britt 
actress, is apparently soon returning to GH).

golf - The Canadian Open went to a 4-hole playoff this year. In the end, 
Kiwi Ryan Fox hit a perfect approach shot on the fourth attempt at the 
par-5 18th hole, while American Sam Burns flubbed his approach to the 
green. Burns parred (for the fourth time in the playoff!), and while Fox 
probably should have eagled it, he was left with an easy putt for 
birdie, and the win.

The Last of Us (Max) - Ep's #2.1-2.3.
     Ep. #2.1 was slow, and was mostly set up.
     Ep. #2.2 was a barn-burner - very likely to be the best episode of 
season #2. Lots happens. But the ending is pretty much a disaster for 
the series. I'm guessing this development is straight out of the second 
video game, and if so I now understand why the second video game is so 
divisive among the game's fandom.
    From a TV series standpoint, I suspect this development will be 
fatal, however.
    Ep. 2.3 is the aftermath of ep. #2.2, and it ends up with Ellie and 
her new (girl?)friend going off on a revenge! REVENGE!! mission on their 
own. The problem is, 1) this is not likely to be very interesting, esp. 
'cos they're likely to draw it out; and, 2) they are now introducing a 
bunch of new elements that I don't like and don't care about. Again, I'm 
sure all of this from the second video game - if so, I now have a lot 
less desire to ever play the sequel game!
    Just 4 more episodes to go - I may try to finish this show out today.


What did you watch?