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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-17 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:31:30 -0700
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On 6/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

First day of summer work (so a little hectic). But I still got through a 
movie:

soaps: DOOL - Ha! They didn't forget about the DNA test results in the 
DiMera safe!! Stefan blackmails EJ (over the paternity results), and is 
forcing EJ to try to get his old job, as DA, back. (If this happens, I 
can't wait to see the look on Melinda Trask's face!) Brady fills Tate in 
on how NuTheresa used him to get Alex back; later, Tate runs across 
Holly, and they're almost about to make out when Theresa catches them.
    GH - Ugh - a birthday party for stupid Willow! (I lost life levels 
watching this!!) Meanwhile, Alexis confronts Finn who continues to be a 
mean drunk. Lizzie blows the whistle on drunk Finn to his boss, Portia.
    Y&R - Half of this ep before work - Audra continues to take her 
Revenge!! and stick it to Tucker (you go girl!).

Emily (Showtime via Pee+) - Been meaning to get to this 2022 bio pic of 
Emily Bronte, starring Emma Mackey, for a while, and nothing on Tubi was 
grabbing me last night, so I decided to watch this.
    Hey! This was written and directed by Frances O'Connor - I wasn't 
sure she was still around!
    The problem here is that this begins with an out-of-sequence opening 
scene (unnecessary), and is heavily, heavily fictionalized, making up a 
lover for Emily (no mention of this anywhere in Bronte's biographies!!), 
and gets basic details wrong, like implying that Charlotte Bronte didn't 
write "Jane Eyre" until after Emily died (in fact, "Jane Eyre" was 
published a month before "Wuthering Heights"!). They also in some places 
make Charlotte the villain, which I didn't appreciate. And the film 
completely downplays Anne Bronte's role in Emily's life, which is also 
an unwelcome change.
    Mackey is good in the role though, and the film successfully 
convinces you that Emily Bronte was an odd duck (in modern terms, you 
have to wonder if she was "on the spectrum"...).


What did you watch?