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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-15 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:53:41 -0700
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On 3/16/2024 10:25 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> I had an afternoon meeting, and then errands, so when I got home, I was 
> bushed. I thought about maybe watching a movie off streaming in the 
> evening, but I ended up being too tired (and basically went to bed early).
> 
> So all I got through was a soap, and a LMN flick:
> 
> soaps: GH - Thur's ep. Mostly hemming and hawing about Jason. Though I 
> did like Jagger pretty much sticking it to Carly about Jason's 
> disapperance. However, this made no sense with the "big reveal" at the 
> end... That Jason is apparently working for Jagger, to take this 
> conspiracy down from the inside (so Jagger actually knows what is up 
> with Jason - so why is he taunting Carly?!). Well, either that, or 
> Jagger is actually the "Big Bad" behind the scenes, and he's driving the 
> assassinations of the mob bosses!
> 
> Killing All of My Sisters (recorded off LMN the night before) - This was 
> OK. Isabella Carlsen plays Emily, a prissy freshman who rushes a 
> sorority with her tennis star bestie, Jenna (tiny cutie Muguet Del Toro, 
> whose name is spelled with a typo in the end credits!). The sorority is 
> run by Brittany, (Grace Patterson, playing against type as the 
> quasi-villain here), with her second (Key Symone) being nearly as 
> sinister!!
>     Well, after some hazing, prissy Emily has had enough, but Jenna, who 
> sticks it out with the sorority, goes missing, after a dalliance with 
> Brittany's scuzzy ex. We know that Brittany and the other sorority 
> sisters are behind it, but Emily can't be sure if Brittany, the 
> sorority's second (Symone) or the scuzzy boyfriend is behind Jenna's 
> disappearance. And is Jenna alive or dead?!
>     Some other malarkey happens along the way, like a dead sorority 
> sister, and another pledge getting attacked, etc.
>     I will give them mild credit - they don't go for the most obvious 
> candidate as the perp. Just the second most obvious.
>     Anyway, this was OK.
> 
> 
> What did you watch?


I watched:

We Have a Ghost (Netlflix) 2023 comedy starring David Harbour as a ghost 
haunting a house Anthony Mackie buys and moves into with his family.  At 
first Harbour tries to scare the family's teenage son, but the kid is 
too full of teenage angst to be afraid.  The teen eventually befriends 
the ghost.  However, soon the rest of the family find out there is a 
ghost living in their attic and it can be recorded on their cellphones. 
With the provable existence of an afterlife, word gets out and all 
Mackie can see are dollar signs as he hopes to exploit the ghost for 
profit.  Meanwhile the teen wants to protect his new friend from his 
father's exploitation and the government which has also taken an 
interest in the ghost.  A bit long, but otherwise I guess it was OK.


The Frighteners (blu-ray) 1996 horror comedy directed by Peter Jackson 
and starring Michael J. Fox as a conman who uses his ability to see and 
talk to ghosts to con people until he stumbles upon the ghost of a 
serial killer who hasn't let being dead slow him down.


Halo (Paramount+) - "Thermopylae" - Penultimate episode.  I forgot to 
mention I watched this the other day. In this week's episode something 
almost happened!  In fact I was so sure something was going to happen 
that I even stood up to focus my attention on the screen just as the 
show ended and the credits rolled.  In next week's finale, something is 
sure to happen.