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On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:32:41 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 12/10/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>
>> What did you watch?
>
>Yesterday, I mostly just caught up on soaps, but I also watched more S2 
>"Lioness":
>
>soaps: Y&R - Mon's ep. Jordan threatens Ian Ward after her whines about 
>things beyond her control - he appears to relent, and plans to go out 
>with a disguise of his own. More boring Sharon stuff. Summer, obviously 
>still jealous of now-brunette Claire, pressures Kyle to tell their son 
>together that Claire will no longer be his nanny, which pisses off 
>Claire who specifically asked to be the one to tell the kid.
>    GH - Thur's thru Mon's ep's, I believe. Yeah, they are ruining 
>NuMolly, who continues to knuckle under to horrible Kristina - but this 
>time Kristina is the one keeping the feud going, after Ava is found not 
>guilty (duh!), which hopefully Kristina does until Molly breaks and is 
>truly done with her. Meanwhile, Molly agrees to stay with Alexis, 
>despite Kristina. There was boring Lucky stuff. Aunt Stella convinces 
>Portia to go easy on Brad, who schemes his way onto a trip with 
>NuNuLucas. Trina is disgusted when the football player wants to get an 
>extension of their school project. Then she, Josslyn, Gio and Dex go out 
>to get a Christmas tree, which ends up bumming out Dex when they all 
>talk about family Christmases which he didn't have. Anna gets Carly to 
>plant a bug on Jack Brennan, and Carly is disappointed when Brennan 
>immediately calls Valentin, proving that Brennan has been lying to her 
>(and everyone else) the whole time.
>
>Lioness (Pee+) - Ep's #2.5 & 2.6.
>    In ep. #2.5, there is a lot of silly side stuff with Joe going "off 
>book" to try to follow the one trafficked little girl from the warehouse 
>raid - this has nothing to do with the mission at hand!! This ends with 
>the DEA part of Joe's team getting annihilated by Cartel drones, the 
>trafficked victims getting killed by a suicide bomb vest - I'm still 
>unclear about the suicide vest part: they didn't explain that part well. 
>Meanwhile, Cruz is ordered to keep Carrillo on task, and Cruz comes up 
>with an alternative plan - get Carrillo to flip her father as a way to 
>get to the Cartel head uncle. So Cruz comes home with Carrillo to try that.
>    Ep. #2.6 was also confusing. Joe figures out she has been shot while 
>on a plane ride, and seems about seconds away from death. Meanwhile, 
>somehow they get it in their heads that Kirk Acevedo's DEA agent 
>Gutierrez is a "mole" who betrayed Joe's mission to the cartel. So Kyle 
>and co torture Gutierrez, and even Nicole Kidman's Kaitlyn shows up, but 
>it seems to be that Gutierrez is just running his own off the books 
>op(?). If so, who betrayed Jo's team during the op? Or were they never 
>betrayed at all?! (I will be pissed if it turns out Kyle is the "mole".) 
>Meanwhile, back at Carrillo's parents house, Carrillo pitches the CIA's 
>plan, and the dad gets violent with her, so Cruz gets violent with him, 
>and Cruz's part of the team ends up taking the father, the maid, and 
>eventually the mom into "custody". At the end, Carrillo looks like she 
>wants to kill the dad, so I don't give him long odds of surviving this!
>    Just two episodes to go, though I probably won't get to those until 
>Wednesday.
>
>
>What did you watch?
>
>

For me it was more of JUSTIFIED Season 2. Where Raylen ends up getting
back with Wynonna. Which creates a rift with Ava as she sees the two
together and creates a strange situation with Wynonna's husband. Of
course we also have the Crowder family creating a bit of havoc but so
far the season really concentrates on the Bennet family and the
mischief they are getting into. Especially as the mother (Margo
Martindale) seems to have big plans but her sons keep screwing things
up as they aren't the brightest of bulbs. Not that they are helped by
their love of constantly testing their product (weed) for its
effectiveness.

That might explain why they had the brightest idea to steal from
another group, The Dixie Mafia, which I'm sure will be resolved
peacefully in the next few episodes, LOL. Also there's the ever so
clever (LOL) Dewey getting himself caught up in more mischief. It's
amazing that he survives long enough to get tossed into prison, let
alone find his way out.


I also worked my way through the first two episodes of CREATURE
COMMANDOS. The new animated series from James Gunn which very much has
a PEACEMAKER vibe too it. While animated it has a number of not safe
for Ian scenes in it as it has a very adult vibe while also being
comedic with plenty of violence and sex. While there's only been two
episodes out so far I'm enjoying it.

For those that don't know (I didn't) the Creature Commandos are a new
group replacing the Suicide Squad. Put together by Amanda Waller and
run by Rick Flag Sr that is made up of monsters instead of humans.
Sent out on the same sort of dangerous missions that the Suicide Squad
was given and controlled by the same devices in their necks. Which
goes about the same as before as the monsters constantly test the
limits.

In addition I got in the final episode of season two of TULSA KING
which closes out a number of threads while opening up a new one. As
Dwight works out his issues with Chickee  and the Kansas City gang.
Only to have what appears to be some department of the government
deciding to black bag Dwight in the middle of the night and ends with
them telling him he now works for them. A move that makes no sense to
me but we won't see how it is explained and works out until the next
season.

What did you watch?