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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-27 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:00:09 -0700
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I did nothing yesterday (and liked it!). I should have gotten work stuff 
done, but I didn't! And if I was not going to do stuff, I should have 
watched a new movie... but I didn't!

So I got through odds-and-ends, mostly trying to tackle my backlog of 
soaps, among other things:

soaps: GH - Wed's & Thur's ep. In Wed's ep, Josslyn has a good venting 
session with Jason, while NuKristina has a venting session with 
NuNuNuMolly about "Josslyn's lies" about Sonny, but Molly can't reveal 
that she knows Josslyn's claims are actually true. Meanwhile, Gregory 
has a scary episode with his ALS, and Chase and Brook Lynn consider 
cancelling the wedding, but Gregory (and Tracy!) won't hear of it! In 
Thur's episode, Nina catches Kristina up on Ava's treachery. Meanwhile, 
Jason goes to Sonny to warn him that going after Dex would be a mistake, 
but Sonny seems incapable of hearing it. Ava warns Laura not to let 
Trina get too close to Ace.
    DOOL - Wed's ep. Still not finding Clyde's ledger, Ava V. and Harris 
Michaels decide they will have to break into the Bistro restaurant to 
find it. Kristen, still tasked with finding Li Shin's real killer, 
visits Wendy to pump her for info. Fragile Wendy pretty much falls apart 
after, so Tripp offers to go on a trip to Hong Kong with her (are these 
two being written out?...). I'm pretty sure that Stephanie came 
face-to-face with "Bobby Stein" (twice!) and is obviously sure that 
something weird is going on - meanwhile Bobby seems to be playing games 
with Jada.

Night Court (Peacock) - "Taught and Bothered" (ep. #2.9). A pretty damn 
mediocre episode in which they introduce Abby's new love interest (Ryan 
Hansen) - Hansen's character is a city HR trainer who disrupts Abby's 
workplace "family" with his ideas on proper coworker professionalism. If 
there was a 'B' storyline in this one, I don't even remember it. The 
only bright spot in this episode was that Flobert was in it.

I then watched Rambo III on one of the Showtimes - very timely as it's 
one of the most "anti-Russian" (accurate!) films ever made, so it's 
completely topical right now!!

Hey did you know that both Rambo II and Rambo III have been released on 
4k Blu-ray?! Hey, so has "Kindergarden Cop"! (just this year!!)  :)

A Chef's Deadly Revenge (Lifetime) - This was a pretty good 
cat-and-mouse thriller.
    Finally, a movie embraces the "stalk your stalker!" conceit, but 
unfortunately doesn't go far enough with it...
    Kathryn Kohut plays a chef and new restaurateur who starts being 
stalked by a pretty creepy dude (Tomas Chovanec). His motivation is 
revealed later. But Kohut's character looks into it, and quickly tracks 
down the dude's oblivious wife (Bridget Wareham) in a "turnabout is fair 
play" sort of way.
    An escalating series of stalking events ensues!!
    I didn't find the ending altogether satisfying, or well-written 
(wouldn't Kohut's character no longer be a suspect after the stalker 
attacks her bestie (Chelsea Muirhead)?!...) I was really hoping that 
Kohut's character would completely lose it, and kill the stalker dude 
instead!
    Still, this was a decent, and relatively "dark" (for Lifetime), 
cat-and-mouse thriller.


What did you watch?