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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-05 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 05:56:15 -0700
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On 5/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

I got through more grading yesterday (as predicted, it will take me 
until today to finish the second exam...), but still managed to watch 
more TV than I was expecting to:

soaps: Fri's ep's.
    GH - Sonny goes to Dante, to basically imply that Dante shouldn't 
"trust" Dex (IOW, shouldn't allow him to become a cop); later, Dante 
wonders to Sam if he shouldn't be a cop anymore (talk about an 
overreaction!!). Carly goes to Sonny's to confront him, and after 
swatting Ava away, confronts Sonny and tells him she won't allow their 
daughter to come over anymore. She then becomes convinced that Sonny 
"isn't taking his medication" with (a guilty!) Ava looking on. Josslyn 
discusses whether she should carry on her path to med school with Trina, 
and later spies Dex and is clearly not over him.
    DOOL - A drunk Leo spills the beans to EJ, but stupidly doesn't get 
any extorted money out of it. EJ races over to confront Sloan, who 
informs EJ that the baby isn't his!! Eric figures out that Leo has been 
blackmailing Sloan, and races over to confront him, but finds nothing 
but a sad sack of drunk in Leo. Constantine manages to "activate" the 
pawn to successfully steal the prenup out of Maggie's safe. Holly is all 
stressed out about school, and has to have Marlena calm her down.

golf - At the Byron Nelson in Dallas, Day 3 leader Jake Knapp kind of 
fell apart on Day 4. This allowed Canuck Taylor Pendrith to vault into 
the lead to win it. American Ben Kohles came in second. (As you can see, 
none of the "big names" played this one apparently.)

My Life Is on the Line (Lifetime) - This was actually a pretty good 
thriller. Unfortunately, the setting and background made it hard to 
watch - the lead (Andrea Pazmino) is a hardscrabble loser, apparently in 
the midst of divorce, who works at a bank call center. She has to meet 
with a mediator (about custody of her son?), but her clueless, 
unsympathetic (and useless - as she's not available when needed) 
supervisor boss won't let her have the time off.
    Of course, she also gets conned by a caller who doesn't have the 
passcode for his "wife's account", but who claims she just had a medical 
emergency, and who needs to money "immediately" to pay the medical 
bills. (It's the kind of story that, if you think about it for a second, 
doesn't make any sense!) Of course, the downbeat loser of a mom approves 
the money transfer without supervisor's approval.
    She fairly soon realizes that she's been conned when the real "wife" 
on the account calls in to find out why her account has been frozen!
    The rest of the flick is the woman trying to scramble to block the 
transfer while the original caller starts to lean on her to complete the 
fraudulent transfer anyway.
    Parts of this were a good thriller. But parts were hard to watch 
because the main character has such a shitty life/job, which she will 
likely lose when her mistake is made public.


What did you watch?