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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-10 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:35:20 -0700
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On 6/11/2024 10:03 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 6/11/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> I watched:
>>
>> Doomsday Machine - Nostalgia Critic:
>> Nostalgia Critic takes a look at the Sci-Fi public domain classic 
>> Doomsday
>> Machine.
>> https://youtu.be/TBgUk2ZGsx8?si=XkAcV5vHunwq-9fu
> 
> Wow, a movie from 1976 is already in the public domain?! - Somebody 
> really f**ked up to make that happen!!
> 
> And this one actually has an UMDb cast list mostly full of actor 
> portrait pics!!
> 
> But 2.6/10 (>1000 votes) on IMDb is pretty bad.
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Ran morning errands, watched soaps, caught a movie on Tubi, and finally 
> started in on a streaming series I've been meaning to get to for a 
> while...:
> 
> soaps: DOOL - Well, that sucks. They (specifically Xander) killed off 
> Constantine. This also means that NuTheresa gets off scot free, and 
> because Constantine only hinted at Alex really not being Victor's son, 
> everyone is still in the dark about that too. All in all, disappointing. 
> And, to cap it all off John is being "Pawnified" on the spot, and may 
> kill an already shot Steve!... Bah!

All may not be as it seems....

> 
> Station Eleven (Max) - First two episodes of the Max Original Series.
>     This is a very odd show.
>     I thought episode #1 was much stronger than episode #2, and it looks 
> likely to me that episode #1 will be the strongest of the bunch, 
> unfortunately.
>     This is a "apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic" series, but not in the 
> usual "Mad Max"/"The Walking Dead" kind of way.
>     Episode #1 deals with a sudden plague that wipes most of humanity 
> out in less than a few months, mostly focusing on "Day One" - Jeevan a 
> failing(?) internet "journalist" is at a staging of King Lear(?) when 
> the play's lead star drops dead. He ends up having to chaperone one of 
> the child actresses in the play, Kirsten (Matilda Lawler as a child; 
> Mackenzie Davis as an adult in the flashforward), in the chaos. He soon 
> gets a call from his doctor sister who tells him to immediately get to 
> their loner brother's apartment and hunker down until this "flu/plague" 
> passes. So, he takes the child actress with him to the brother's place.
>     This is pretty much what happens in episode #1, and at least it was 
> compelling.
>     Episode #2 is mostly 20 years in the future (in "2040"), after the 
> plague wiped most people out, and now the survivors are wandering 
> around. Kirsten has gotten herself in with a roaming "theater troupe", 
> headed by Lori Petty which travels the country putting on Shakespearean 
> plays. But, of course, some creepy types start showing up.
>     I found this stuff *much less interesting* than episode #1. If the 
> remaining 8 episodes spend most of the time in 2040, this show is going 
> to be a slog...
> 
It was kind of a slog, but I kept watching to see where it was going.