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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-09 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 07:20:46 -0700
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On 5/10/2024 5:31 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 5/10/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> While nursing my back, I watched:
>>
>> HIDDEN GEMS: FAILED 80S SPINOFFS THAT WERE ACTUALLY GREAT!:
>> Join me (Kevin) from Retro Renaissance as I uncover the best-kept 
>> secrets of
>> the 80s TV world! Discover the unexpectedly amazing shows that emerged 
>> from
>> failed spinoffs like "Enos," "AfterMASH," "Booker," and more. Get 
>> ready for
>> laughs and nostalgia as we delve into these retro treasures.
>>
>> Chapters:
>>
>> 00:00 Intro
>> 00:20 Enos
>> 03:25 AFTERMash
>> 08:08 Booker
>> 10:21 Flo
>> 14:37 The Toretellis
>> 17:46 Day by Day
>> 20:12 Just the Ten of Us
>> 22:43 Checking In
>> 34:44 The Law and Harry McGraw
>> 27:09 Living Dolls
>>
>> https://youtu.be/Q8fO5xN9DHM?si=4Nv3oQM_ZRbqfuYt
> 
> Are they high?! - Most of these were terrible. For example, "Just the 
> Ten of Us" was awful, with its only redeeming quality being that it was 
> stuffed full of hott chycks!
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Still trying to get through grading. So at night, I just put "John Wick 
> 3" in the background, and did some online grading. The only things I 
> actually watched were:
> 
> Night Court (2023) (Peacock) - "Chips Ahoy" (ep. #2.10). I have mixed 
> feelings about this one. The 'A' storyline had Melissa Fumero (who looks 
> middle-aged these days - I remember when she was a young hottie on 
> OLTL!!) as a "mean mom" acquaintance of Wyatt's whom Abby convicts in 
> the Night Court. Fumero then sticks around to menace Wyatt and annoy 
> Abby. In the 'B' storyline, Dan desperately wants to get in to an annual 
> 'Fleet Week' poker game, so he can fleece the sailors and take their 
> money, while Gurgs tries to resist the "charms" of hott(?) sailors. In 
> the 'C' story, Flobert insists upon teaching Olivia how to scam people.
>     This episode had some amusing bits. But, overall, I also didn't feel 
> that it really worked.
> 
> On Wheel of Fortune, the youts with grandparents teams were still 
> annoying! Also, I embarrassingly couldn't figure out the final puzzle.  :S
> 
> 
> What did you watch?
> 
> 


I watched:


Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+) - "Erigah" - I saw a bit of a preview 
for this episode that made it look like this would be an action packed 
episode with the Federation and Breen in an all out battle.  Instead 
this episode had the Breen showing up to throw their weight around and 
try to intimidate the federation but not a single shot was fired.  Then 
there were the two smugglers who I have increasingly grown to hate this 
season.  Meh!!!!


Funny Girl (TCM) 1968 musical starring Barbra Stresand as a real life 
singer who rises to fame while falling in love with Omar Sharif.  I have 
tickets to see Funny Girl live on stage this weekend.  I wanted to watch 
the original movie before seeing it live.  I saw the movie once before 
many years ago but didn't remember it.  On this viewing I think I liked 
it a bit more.  It's still not a movie I'd particularly want to revisit, 
but it was watchable.