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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-10-23 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:39:41 -0700
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On 10/24/2024 6:05 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 10/24/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> I took it easy yesterday, and did not attempt to watch movies:
> 
> soaps: Mon's & Tue's ep's. These ep's did not concern Sharon or Daniel, 
> and so weren't very interesting. In maybe the most interesting bit, 
> Audra talks to Lily as they both been screwed over by Victor; this was 
> after Nikki again tried to smooth things over with Lily, and Lily 
> effectively told her to shove it. Aside from that, not much of 
> importance happened except that Billy and Sally kissed (who didn't see 
> that coming?!), and Filis[sic] is still trying to work with Billy at 
> Chancellor. Adam releases a hit piece against Billy.
>     GH - Tue's ep. Ha! As expected, Ric Lansing's legal maneuvers work 
> too well, and he gets Heather Webber (who wasn't in this ep) sprung from 
> jail! Then he has to go tell Portia and co. about that! Holly tells Anna 
> the truth about being Sasha's mom, etc., and Anna lays Holly out for it 
> and tells her to leave town. Then Holly goes to Sonny to "strike a 
> deal". Molly and TJ drift further apart. Sam gets ready for surgery (and 
> her DOOM!!).
> 
> After that, I put "The Face I Can't Forget" (with EVOL!! Victoria 
> Baldesarra!) on LMN on in the background, while I did other stuff.
> 
> 
> What did you watch?
> 
> 


This will be a multiday catch=up.  Over the past couple of days, I watched:


The Equalizer - "The Lost Ones" Season 5, episode 1.  McCall rescues a 
kidnapped girl.  They had to jump through some serious logical hoops to 
explain why the police couldn't just be called.  And considering the 
kidnapper was a gun runner, I'm sure the police would have loved the 
heads up.  And now that I think about it for a minute, were they really 
just going to give the gun runner back the guns?


Superman & Lois - "A Perfectly Good Wedding" - I didn't give this 
episode my full attention, but Superman is back and training his kids. 
But why is Luthor still walking around instead of pulverized into mist? 
Or at least stranded on the top of a mountain?


Survivor - "Feel the FOMO" - The editing this season continues to be so 
much better than it used to be.  It's much more enjoyable when I can 
follow the talk about who is getting voted out and then see that person 
get voted out!


Agatha All Along (Disney+) "Death's Hand in Mind" - This episode was 
Patti LuPone's time to shine.  Her character can divine the future (or 
past) through tarot cards, but mentally she has become unstuck in time. 
This season whenever she speaks it's never clear if she is speaking 
about the past, present, or future.  This episode does a lot of time 
jumping and clears it all up as we see events unfold from her 
perspective.  This was one of, if not the best episodes this season.


Venom (4K disc) 2018 movie starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, a 
newspaper writer, not for the Daily Bugle, who does not know Peter 
Parker/Spider-man, and yet nevertheless finds himself attached to 
Spider-man's enemy.  Without a Spider-Man around it's up to Venom to be 
the hero of the story.  I guess it's an OK movie if you have low 
expectations.  It was actually a little better than I remembered.  But 
It definitely felt like there was 20 or 30 minutes of story that they 
cut.  What made that even more awkward is the movie's run time is just 
under two hours, but at a little over the 90 minute mark the credits 
started to roll, with 20 minutes of credits!


Venom: Let There Be Carnage (4K disc) 2021 sequel which this time finds 
Venom (Tom Hardy) fighting Venom's son Carnage (Woody Harrelson).  This 
was a mess of a movie but was mercifully short.  Don't get me wrong, as 
long as your brain is turned *all* the way off, it's more or less 
watchable.  It will kill 90 minutes of time so it has that going for it. 
  They very wisely keep these Venom movies very short.