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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-22 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 08:35:34 -0800
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Yesterday, I shifted gears and watched neither soaps nor a movie. In the 
evening, I made a "census" of many of the recent streaming TV shows I 
should add to "my list", and also some movies on the various streamers I 
may want to watch.

Basically, that led me to the decision to start watching a streaming TV 
series now, but one that I could watch "semi-casually" (IOW, not feel 
the need to necessarily watch it *every* consecutive day until I finished).

So I settled on:

Lioness (Pee+) - First two episodes of season #1.
    This series strikes me as being very "Taylor Sheridan" - despite 
having two female leads, it's a very "macho" show.
    <s>Gamora</s> <s>Eva from "Center Stage"</s> (starring Amanda Schull 
as a baby! it's on the Tubi right now!!) Zoe Saldana stars as "Joe", 
a... well, they never really do come out and say what she is! I guess 
she's CIA. But they never say what her background was - like whether she 
was ex-military, or what... Anyway, as the series opens Joe's most 
recent asset gets herself killed by ISIS in Syria because of a hidden 
tattoo she didn't disclose - Joe calls in the missile strike that kills 
the asset. Meh.
    Meanwhile, Laysla De Oliveira lives a life of not-so-quiet 
desperation, and signs up for the Marines. In typical over-the-top 
Taylor Sheridan fashion, De Oliveira's Cruz (that's her first name?!!) 
scores in, like, the Top 0.1% of Marine recruits, so the higher ups 
quickly boot her into special forces stuff.
    Then she crosses Joe's path.
    Joe & co. (which includes a very butch Jill Wagner, as BTR warned - 
I wondered if she was just season #1, but apparently Wagner is back in 
season #2, and Wagner is an E.P. on the show, along with Zaldana) set up 
an operation - to take down a richie rich Arab terrorist financier by 
planting Cruz (who they claim is half-Arab) with the financier's 
daughter (Stephanie Nur).
    In subplots, we see Joe's family, a child oncologist doctor husband 
(Dave Annable) - why go into this line of work?!! - her rebellious teen 
older daughter (who seems like she needs to given away to human 
traffickers 'cos she's so awful!!), and her precious younger daughter 
(who disappears in the second episode, and whom I wondered about being 
memory-holed, but apparently the younger daughter is just recurring).
    This is decent stuff, certainly watchable. But it looks like I made 
the correct call with this one, as I can watch it casually, and not be 
put off with myself if I don't watch it for a day or two...


What did you watch?