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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-08 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 05:49:14 -0700
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My last "official" long workday until Fall. So I didn't get through much:

soaps: DOOL - [roll] Every few years, DOOL does the same thing with its 
"teen scene" - they first introduce two main character teens, then soon 
after they will add a couple of mostly minor "recurring" teen characters 
as the main characters' besties. (So, no more than 4 teens total!) 
Wackiness ensues. Well, we're getting same thing now with Holly and 
NuTate - first they introduced Holly's bestie, who's hot for Tate. And 
in this episode, they introduce Tate's bestie. Of course, in a massive 
contrivance, Holly and Tate will now be taking the opposite's bestie to 
the Prom, rather than going together. [roll]
    Meanwhile, Sloan tells Melinda Trask about having to tell EJ the 
truth about the baby's paternity after drunken Leo tipped off EJ in the 
previous epie. EJ frantically tries to confirm the baby's paternity 
(with an off-screen Dr. Rolf!) - have they just forgotten about the DNA 
paternity test results that EJ shoved in the DiMera safe months ago?! 
Ava successfully holds off Clyde's demands for the ledger, claiming she 
still hasn't found it yet - but Clyde seems to have outsmarted Harris 
and Ava, potentially foiling their plans to capture him.

It's Family Week on Wheel of Fortune, and the families in yesterday's 
Wheel ep were particularly annoying.

Once again, I put "Chicago Med" on in the background, but paid it almost 
no attention.

Chicago Fire - This was a dumb episode, that seemed like it belonged 
much more on Chicago P.D. than on Chicago Fire. (Heck! They didn't even 
fight a fire in the epie!!)
    Severide sees armed men enter the firehouse. They come in to steal a 
fire truck, but Severide sneaks aboard the truck before the men drive it 
off. They drive the truck to Indiana, and then change the truck's 
external decals so it looks like an Indiana fire truck. Of course, these 
guys are a bunch of EVOL!!1! white supremacist terrorist types, and not 
the much more likely terrorist types. Severide figures out a way to 
clandestinely contact the firehouse, alerting Cruz and the others. 
Somehow the cops - and these cops aren't even from the "P.D." show, and 
are instead a couple of randos, including Ritter's current boyfriend - 
and 51 figure out where the truck is and race to get to it. (Like the 
cops would ever let firefighters tag along on a clearly police matter 
like this!!) All the EVOL neo-nazi-type scum are taken down and Severide 
is rescued.
    Jocelyn Hudon was barely in this episode (it was said by Kidd and 
Violet that they did talk her into signing on with 51 full-time). Also, 
no Boden at all. And the new guy still has secrets, which causes the 
cops to suspect him of being an "inside-man" for the terrorists - but we 
still don't know the dude's secret yet!


What did you watch?