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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-12 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:04:47 -0800
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On 1/13/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

One thing I forgot to mention for Arthur on Saturday is that I watched 
"Demolition Man" - it's amazing how many people are in this film as 
virtual babies!... including Denis Leary!! This is one of my fave 1990s 
dystopian action flicks!  :)

Feeling a little better yesterday, I actually ran an errand, and then 
did actual work stuff. I watched:

Wild Card football - I watched all 3 games yesterday.
    In the morning game, at the beginning, it seemed like Denver was 
going to make a game of it - they were trying every trick in the book to 
try to. But, as expected, it quickly got away from them and Buffalo 
ended up dominating, winning easily.
    The afternoon game was Green Bay vs. Phili, which Green Bay managed 
to keep somewhat close throughout most of the game, despite playing 
pretty awfully. (Further buttressing my belief that Phili is overrated!) 
But, in the end, Phili did what they needed to to win.
    The best game of the Wild Card set was last night's game, Washington 
vs. Tampa Bay, which was close pretty much throughout the whole game. 
Unfortunately, Washington won it in a less second field goal, which 
"doinked" in off the upright (seemingly the fifth or sixth time that has 
happened late this season).
    Just Rams vs. Vikings left for tonight.

I was still pretty tired so last night I just decided to put on the Fox 
lineup after football, to sample some shows:

Doc - Pilot. This was OK. Canuck actress Molly Parker plays a brilliant 
doctor and chief of internal medicine with horrible bedside manner - 
this is obviously filmed in Toronto, as Rebecca Liddiard plays a patient 
abused by Parker's horrible bedside manner. (The chief of staff's new 
wife(?) is also played by Sarah Allen.)
    But Parker's Doc has a car crash (texting while driving!!), 
resulting in a head injury. After brain surgery, she doesn't remember 
the preceding 8 years. Which means she doesn't know that she's divorced 
from the guy who is now the chief of staff(?), that her daughter is now 
a teenager, that her young son died 7 years before, nor that she's 
carrying on an affair with a much younger underling (Jon Ecker).
    Anyway, it looks like this is going to devolve into a slog as she 
tries to get her life and career back, presumably with a new attitude. 
IOW, while this wasn't terrible, I doubt I'm going to go out of my way 
to watch it again.

Animal Control - What I gather was ep. #3.2. What made this more 
enjoyable than usual was that Lucy Punch was the guest star. Aside from 
that this show is OK - it has some amusing bits, and characters, but 
also gets tedious in places. And McHale is playing the usual "Joel 
McHale" character here, so it's not breaking new ground.

Going Dutch - This one I was actively disappointed by: instead of just 
letting Denis Leary be the "Denis Leary-esque" crotchety commander of a 
lax base in the Netherlands, they screw this up by adding the fact that 
his daughter is one of the officers immediately under him - if I want to 
watch that kind of show, I'll watch "Shifting Gears"! I don't want this 
show messed up by estranged father-daughter dynamics!
    Anim will love this as Catherine Tate has a significant role as a 
prostitute(?) who befriends Leary (is it my imagination or do all Leary 
series seem to push prostitution?!) - Tate is *much* more subdued here 
than she was on "Doctor Who"; Joe Morton also appears as the superior 
officer determined to ruin Leary's career.


What did you watch?