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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-14 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:19:10 -0800
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On 1/15/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

Did work, and had a meeting yesterday, then ran an errand. So I only saw 
stuff in the afternoon and evening:

soaps: DOOL - Mon's ep. Convoluted - Stephanie tells Sarah the truth 
about Philip's letter, and rather than go tell Xander, instead Sarah 
goes to confront Philip and Kate who seem to talk her out of telling 
Xander (why?!!). Meanwhile, Stephanie goes to her mother to winge about 
her terrible love life! Chad discovers Cat is staying in town. Marlena 
can't track down John.
    GH - Tue's ep. Tracy refuses to let Willow's kids off the property 
(I hope Martin Gray has her arrested!). Sasha butts in where she has 
zero business, and pretty much gets her head handed to her by Willow. 
Lucky and Josslyn "compare notes" on their respective Cyrus Renault 
investigations, and then Lucky tries to figure out what all the victims 
have in common with Lizzie and Lucas.

The Rings of Power (Apple TV+) - Ep's #2.3 & 2.4.
    Yikes - ep. #2.3 is not good, with too much Numenor stuff. The 
Numenor stuff isn't worth repeating. The Dwarves are offered rings, and 
seem to be willing to take them.
    Ep. #2.4 was at least better in parts. Yeah, the Isildur-Arondir 
parts end up in Ents (another thing this show should have stayed away 
from). And the show compounds idiocy by having the Stranger come across 
Tom Bombadil [roll] while his two companions come across other halflings 
called Stoors. But at least the Galadriel's and Elrond's party try to 
make it to Celebrimbor parts were interesting.

Initiation (Prime) - A 2020 horror movie. What's interesting about this 
is that is was co-written and co-produced by the film's lead, Lindsay 
LaVanchy (an actress I have never come across before). Considering all 
of that, it actually has a passable cast, as they got Yancy Butler and 
Lochlyn Munro to show up for this.
    My one issue is that the film takes way too long to get going.
    It starts out being about a sorority and a frat and its members and 
pledges. At a party, the lead's (LaVanchy) pledge (Isabella Gomez from 
Netflix's "One Day at a Time") is roofied and apparently raped by some 
of the frat guys, potentially including the lead's brother.
    Eventually, a masked figure starts offing the frat guys in 
particularly brutal ways - is the killer eliminating the "weak links" to 
protect the frat?
    Anyway, this gets better the longer it goes, though I would say the 
final sequence with the sorority sisters (Shireen Lai plays the third 
sorority sister) trapped together in a college building with the killer 
probably goes on too long.
    So, I have never seen Lindsay LaVanchy before, and this was 
definitely her biggest role to date. Then COVID hit and she basically 
did nothing else since this... until just recently - it looks like she, 
Gomez and Lai are working together on another new upcoming horror flick.


What did you watch?