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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-25 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:30:58 -0700
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On 4/26/24 11:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 4/26/2024 5:51 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> On 4/26/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> I had to finish a pestiferous online training yesterday, so I only got
>>> through two things on TV:
>>>
>>> Fallout (Prime) - "The Trap" (ep. #1.6). No Norm or Vault 33 this episode.
>>>     At first, Maximus wants out of the vault they're in, Vault 4, but
>>> Lucy wants to stay a while. However, Lucy begins investigating the vault
>>> after meeting its overseer (Chris Parnell), who is a cyclops!! Lucy is
>>> shocked and disgusted by what she finds. Meanwhile, Maximus is soon
>>> "bought off" by the comforts of life in the vault.
>>>     The Ghoul is captured by some thuggy "lawmen" in the employ a
>>> self-proclaimed "president" of New California (Glenn Fleshler). But The
>>> Ghoul ultimately overpowers them. We also get some more flashbacks of
>>> him when he was Howard, before the bombs dropped. We are shown that
>>> Moldaver was also alive 200 years ago, and was organizing against
>>> Vault-Tec even back then.
>>>
>>> Fatal Fixer Upper (LMN) - This was very "mid" for a Hybrid flick - it
>>> was far from their worst one (my vote for that is probably "The Wrong
>>> Real Estate Agent", which was so bad that AFAICT Lifetime has only aired
>>> it once, unlike nearly all of the other "Wrong" flicks that have aired
>>> multiple time since premiering!), but it still wasn't very good.
>>>     One the plus side, Jasmine Aivaliotis did look supes-cute in this,
>>> despite one or two ridiculous outfits they put her in.
>>>     Meanwhile, Dorian Gregory had, I think, all of two scenes in this,
>>> despite playing Aivaliotis father(?) - he doesn't show up at all
>>> throughout the end of the film, after Aivaliotis' character has figured
>>> out the original homeowner is a psycho! (You would think she would have
>>> told her dad about this!!)
>>
>> I have to wonder which do they come up with first, the title, or the plot.
> 
> Usually they come up with a buzzword title, write a script to fit it, and
> then change the title.

That definitely seems to be the Lifetime MO, about half the time, based 
on IMDb having different movie titles than what Lifetime goes with for a 
good percentage of these flicks.