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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-12 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:43:34 -0500
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:04:47 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 1/13/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>
>> What did you watch?
>
>One thing I forgot to mention for Arthur on Saturday is that I watched 
>"Demolition Man" - it's amazing how many people are in this film as 
>virtual babies!... including Denis Leary!! This is one of my fave 1990s 
>dystopian action flicks!  :)
>
>Feeling a little better yesterday, I actually ran an errand, and then 
>did actual work stuff. I watched:
>

>I was still pretty tired so last night I just decided to put on the Fox 
>lineup after football, to sample some shows:
>
>Doc - Pilot. This was OK. Canuck actress Molly Parker plays a brilliant 
>doctor and chief of internal medicine with horrible bedside manner - 
>this is obviously filmed in Toronto, as Rebecca Liddiard plays a patient 
>abused by Parker's horrible bedside manner. (The chief of staff's new 
>wife(?) is also played by Sarah Allen.)
>    But Parker's Doc has a car crash (texting while driving!!), 
>resulting in a head injury. After brain surgery, she doesn't remember 
>the preceding 8 years. Which means she doesn't know that she's divorced 
>from the guy who is now the chief of staff(?), that her daughter is now 
>a teenager, that her young son died 7 years before, nor that she's 
>carrying on an affair with a much younger underling (Jon Ecker).
>    Anyway, it looks like this is going to devolve into a slog as she 
>tries to get her life and career back, presumably with a new attitude. 
>IOW, while this wasn't terrible, I doubt I'm going to go out of my way 
>to watch it again.

Yeah, it wasn't a bad story but there's that likelihood of it being a
slog as the show develops.

>Animal Control - What I gather was ep. #3.2. What made this more 
>enjoyable than usual was that Lucy Punch was the guest star. Aside from 
>that this show is OK - it has some amusing bits, and characters, but 
>also gets tedious in places. And McHale is playing the usual "Joel 
>McHale" character here, so it's not breaking new ground.
>
>Going Dutch - This one I was actively disappointed by: instead of just 
>letting Denis Leary be the "Denis Leary-esque" crotchety commander of a 
>lax base in the Netherlands, they screw this up by adding the fact that 
>his daughter is one of the officers immediately under him - if I want to 
>watch that kind of show, I'll watch "Shifting Gears"! I don't want this 
>show messed up by estranged father-daughter dynamics!
>    Anim will love this as Catherine Tate has a significant role as a 
>prostitute(?) who befriends Leary (is it my imagination or do all Leary 
>series seem to push prostitution?!) - Tate is *much* more subdued here 
>than she was on "Doctor Who"; Joe Morton also appears as the superior 
>officer determined to ruin Leary's career.

Haven't tried the second episode yet as the first one left me
expecting this to be cancelled before the end of the season.

>
>What did you watch?