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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-12 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:39:32 -0800
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On 12/13/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

Yesterday was my last half-day workday of the year (and possibly the 
last day I ever work my second job - we'll see...), but all I got 
through were soaps and a Lifetime movie:

soaps: Y&R - I think these were Tue's and Wed's ep's. Y&R seems to 
perennially come up with good front-end of stories, but terrible 
back-ends. This is happening with the Sharon storyline as Sharon (and 
Faith) are becoming insufferable, now believing that Sharon is 
"innocent" (no matter what, she still disposed of a body and framed 
Daniel for murder - she is still an awful person who should be in jail), 
even of trying to kill Filis[sic!] (she actually is innocent of this 
one), and the show is acting like we should be "rooting" for them. 
Sharon also decides to get hypnotized to try to get back the "lost time" 
she's had. Ian Ward and Jordan continue to bicker, and I'm waiting for 
one of them to try to kill the other. Billy is mad at Jack for the 
deception concerning Diane (and Kyle). Victor plots revenge against Jack 
after Jack rescued Glaucade.
    DOOL - Also Tue's and Wed's ep's(?). Clyde holds JJ and NuGabi at 
gunpoint, threatening and intending to kill them. Chad and Cat come 
across Cat's mom, who has apparently been brainwashed by Clyde, but they 
overpower her, and then Cat gets through to the mom. While this happens, 
Chad shows up to knock Clyde out - when Clyde comes to, Chad is about to 
get Abby's (body's?) fate out of him when Cat's mom shows up and 
apparently shoots Clyde dead!!... The rest of this wasn't very 
interesting - more Leo and Javi stuff (I don't care! - though I suspect 
Javi's new boy toy is the real Lady Whistleblower imposter...), and also 
Brady and Ava flirting (is this going anywhere?!...).

Be Careful What You Say (LMN) - Surprisingly, this wasn't a Hybrid flick 
like I was expecting (instead it was a Barbie Castro production), and it 
was actually well-made. That wasn't the problem.
    The problem was the flick sported almost *no* likeable characters!
    The only character who came close was the producer boyfriend played 
by Jason Tobias - once again, Tobias is playing the overly-supportive 
boyfriend schlub who is heinously framed by the film's villainess 
(Tobias plays the same role in "Revenge for My Mother", and at least one 
other flick I can't think of right now...), and is abandoned by the 
film's so-called "heroine" as a result.
    But everyone else here is unlikeable - the overly-ambitious 
unsupportive "advice" podcaster (Skye Coyne), the revenge-obsessed 
villainess (Nicole Dionne) whose son was a psychopath who deserved to 
die, and the podcaster's know(no?)-it-all unsupportive college-aged 
sister (Taylor Castro).
    Gist: Unlicensed podcast "advice columnist(?)" gives a harried mom 
some "tough love" advice, which results in the death of said son. A year 
later, the mom initiates a devious and detailed plan to destroy the 
podcaster's life and career, before murdering her and burying her in the 
backyard "for all eternity".
    The problem? This time, I wasn't rooting for either of them. In 
fact, I was kind of rooting for both of them to die.
    The ending on this one was a real howler, as everyone ends up with 
an undeserved ending.


What did you watch?