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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-07 (Saturday)
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On 12/8/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

I took it easy yesterday, so not too much:

DOOL - Wed's & Thur's ep's. They're moving beyond Doug's memorial, but 
not in particularly interesting ways - Doug's "grandson" (Disney's 
Peyton Meyer) shows up, and he's stolen a necklace... Meh. Why should I 
care about this? And why have they brought him on? - There's almost no 
one to pair him with - Stephanie? Chanel? Joy, if she sticks around? 
Meh... Meanwhile, I enjoyed Xander clashing with Stephanie - he kind of 
has her number!

Lioness (Pee+) - First two episodes of season #2.
    Ep. #2.1 is a barn-burner - Cartel types enter the El Paso(?) house 
of a U.S. Congresswoman, kill her husband and child, and kidnap her. 
Without even her own team (who were not in ep. #2.1 at all), Joe is 
ordered into Mexico to retrieve the Congresswoman, though she's backed 
by a team consisting of Max Martini (The Unit) and Taylor Sheridan 
himself!! They retrieve the Congresswoman with EXTREME PREJUDICE! - I 
love how they just eliminated the banditos like swatting flies. Then 
they waste probably about three dozen Mexican federales and Mexican army 
troops on the way back to the border!
    Ep. #2.2 brings back Joe's team (sans Cruz), along with Martini and 
Sheridan, and CIA bro Kyle (Thad Luckinbill, who's now main cast in 
season #2, along with Michael Kelly and Morgan Freeman) for their new 
mission - plant a new lioness inside the Cartel to track down the 
Chinese Intelligence operative who organized the original kidnapping. 
The new lioness? - A U.S. Army(?) captain and chopper pilot who also 
happens to be the niece of the Cartel's head. But Carrillo, the new 
lioness, seems even more problematic than Cruz was. And this mission 
isn't even an assassination mission, but a "trojan horse" operation!

I otherwise left Christmas TV movies or the Oregon-Penn State game on as 
background noise, until:

Sugarplummed (Hallmark) - New X-Mas flick starring Maggie Lawson and 
Janel Parrish.
    This started out really promisingly, as it was basically a spoof and 
"meta" examination of Hallmark's own X-Mas movies. It started out 
turning the formula on its head, but explicitly examining it.
    Unfortunately, the film succumbs to all the very tropes it was 
originally satirizing in the Third Act.
    Too bad, because Hallmark was coming dangerously close to breaking 
the formula with this one...


What did you watch?