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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-20 (Thursday)
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On 6/21/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

On the last workday of the (summer!) work week, I watched soaps and some 
more movies!:

soaps: DOOL - This was mostly set up for the "prom" episode that will 
come Friday. (Uh, it's mid- to late-June - Do HS's *anywhere* have prom 
this late in the year?!!) Anyway, NuTate's date (can't remember her 
name) overhears Tate and his friend (can't remember his name) talking 
about prom, and realizes that Tate isn't interested in her and is just 
using her to get close to Holly - later, Tate's date rats out their 
scheme to NuTheresa! So they're going to get busted on Friday. 
Meanwhile, Theresa has a disturbing dream about giving it all up for 
Brady! Stefan forces EJ to reveal he's DA again to Nicole.
    GH - Finn's bosses refuse to let him back to work, and he takes it 
about as well as expected. Spinelli gets the audio file of Carly's 
incriminating confession that Jagger has been holding over Jason and 
makes a copy for Sam, who beelines it to Carly.
    Y&R - I only saw a little bit of this - Victoria's younger daughter 
still resents the insertion of Claire into their lives. Claire 
commiserates with Kyle (I can't even figure it out - are they blood 
relatives, or not?! I think they're not...).

Target: My Daughter (Tubi) - This was interesting - this 2017 thriller 
felt too low-budget to be a Lifetime flick (IOW, even lower budget than 
a Hybrid Films flick!), so it never made it to Lifetime.
    Also, I have a theory that Yancy Butler has been blackballed by 
Lifetime (I think she appeared in a Lifetime film or two a decade or 
more ago, but has not been in a Lifetime flick in at least a decade!), 
so they probably wouldn't take a movie with her anyway...
    But it also stars Karis Cameron, c. 2017 - so between Cameron doing 
"Open Heart" in 2015 and her first Lifetime flick (which was "Identity 
Theft of a Cheerleader") in 2019 - back when Karis Cameron was still 
young and beautiful (and before she put on the weight, post-2020 - 
Cameron effectively hasn't worked since 2022).
    Anyway, in this, Cameron's character witnesses the murder of her 
father (via cell phone), by a gangster (Aurelio Di Nunzio), and so she 
and her mother (Butler) - who, of course, happens to be ex-special 
forces or something - are put into witness protection (the original 
title of this flick was "Witness Protection") in a coastal village 
somewhere (this couldn't look more like British Columbia if they tried!!).
    And, of course, the gangster sends a hitman (hey! it's Sebastian 
Spence!) after them.
    This was barely OK, but I enjoyed Butler's twitchy performance as 
sort of crummy mom-type, and Karis Cameron has perhaps never looked 
better than here.

Prowl (2010) (Tubi) - OK, I am about 95% sure I have seen this 2010 
flick before, most likely on the Chiller channel back in the midish-2010s.
    This has an even more laughable crediting sitch' than the movies I 
watched on Wednesday - the indisputable "star" of this 2010 horror flick 
is Courtney Hope (before she f**ked up her looks and got gigs on B&B and 
Y&R - Hope is naturally thin-lipped as you can see here, but in later 
life she has refused to accept this fact...  :/  ) - anyway, Hope is 
credited *third* in the film's primary end-credits, and *fifth*!! in the 
film's cast list credits. Despite being the film's clear lead!! That's 
ridic.
    Anyway, Hope's character ropes in a bunch of friends (among them, a 
young Perdita Weeks (after she did "The Tutors" but before "As Above, So 
Below"), Ruta Gedmintas and Josh Bowman (from "Revenge")) to accompany 
her to Chicago. For [reasons], they are eventually to be transported 
there by a truck driver played by Bruce Payne - hint: if your driver is 
played by Bruce Payne, he is up to no good.
    From this point, the film doesn't waste anytime in getting to 
(improbable!) horror.
    This was about on part with Wed's flick "Underground" - it's a 
decent "ride", once it gets started.
    P.S. In this one, Perdita Weeks has arguably the most horrific death 
scene.  :/

My Two Husbands (LMN) - This wasn't nearly as lurid as I was hoping.
    Also, I was kind of hoping that Kabby Borders would figure out a way 
to get out from under the EVOL! first husband, and just live "happily 
ever after" with the conned second husband.
    Part of the issue with this film is that both Kabby Borders' 
character, and the character of the step-daughter played by Isabelle 
Almoyan, were both too stupid to live!
    It's hard to root for anybody when your lead characters are too 
stupid to live!
    Anyway, this was just mostly OK, though it was kind of fun to see 
Almoyan's character continually get herself into situations where she 
should have ended up dead!!


What did you watch?