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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-16 (Thursday)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:10:15 -0800
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On 1/17/2025 8:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 1/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Yesterday, I stayed home, did some work, and did watch some stuff:
> 
> soaps: DOOL - Tue's ep. Leo tries to get Hattie her job back and so far 
> fails, but does get Paulina and Abe to hire a P.I. to track down the new 
> Lady Whistleblower (who of course is Javi's new boyfriend). JJ is now 
> working for Salem PD. Jada is suspicious of Rafe's disappearance, and 
> goes to confront EJ about it, and stumbles across FauxRafe!
>     GH - Thur's ep. Nina really pressures Willow to back down on 
> Michael's parents visiting him, and then goes to Ava to complain about 
> Drew's control over Willow. Carly tries to get Tracy to relent. Willow 
> has a freak out, but Chase calms her down. Brook Lynn visits the ObGyn 
> about getting pregnant. Dante talks with Cody, but then Selina Wu shows 
> up. Trina visits the injured football QB.
> 
> The Rings of Power (Prime) - Ep's #2.7 #2.8, the season #2 finale.
>     Is season #2 better than season #1 - Overall? - Probably?... 

I *still* need to get to this.

> 
> Demise (Tubi) - A 2024 "thriller"(?) "noir"(?) flick that is not 
> actually a Tubi Original film but pretty much might as well be.
>     I'm guessing that Liz Fenning, at least, had fun doing this one.
>     And, before you ask, there is no naked nudity in this - they use 
> very obvious body doubles in a couple of scenes, but if given the choice 
> between "no naked nudity" and "use of body doubles", I will nearly 
> always prefer "no naked nudity"...
>     Anyway, this runs at 2 hours, and is overlong at this length.
>     Fenning plays a richie-rich "white girl" (IOW, "Anglo") wife who 
> discovers that 1) she can't have kids, and 2) her husband (Carlo Mendez) 
> is having an affair with a spicy, hot-to-trot fashion designer (Crystal 
> Hernandez, whom I'm not familiar with and seems to have had only a minor 
> career so far)... and the mistress is expecting a baby with the husband!
>     This pushes Fenning's character *way over the line*! and soon enough 
> she's plotting 1) revenge, 2) baby stealing, 3) murder.
>     I was disappointed in Fenning's character's plot - I was hoping she 
> had a multi-step plan which involved - 1) killing the mistress, 2) 
> getting back together with the husband to get control of the baby, and 
> 3) finally killing the husband to have the baby all to herself. But her 
> character's plan only covers Steps 1) and 2), and not 3), which really 
> irked me.
>     I did not care for the ending of this which seemed ill-defined in a 
> way that made the ending less effective, not more.
> 
> 
> What did you watch?
> 


I watched:


Night Court - "Mayim Worst Enemy" - After suffering through several bad 
episodes, they finally managed to crank out a good one.  This episode 
features Mayim Bialik playing herself who after winding up in Night 
Court for a minor issue starts to stalk Abby.  I had *no* idea until 
after the episode, but the actress who plays the judge co-stared with 
Bialik on The Big Bang Theory.  I knew Mayin was on that show but didn't 
know Melissa Racuch, who plays the judge, also starred on BBT.


Silo - 	"Into the Fire" - Season 2, episode 10, season finale.  WOW!  I 
really can't say much, especially about the end.  They somehow managed 
to not really answer any questions, but still turn out a good finale and 
set up what looks to be a very interesting season 3.


Wolf Man (theatrical) This new Wolf Man movie was a mess.  I don't 
particularly want to get into it, but basically a man takes his wife and 
daughter out to a deserted cabin.  Along the way he gets scratched by a 
wolf man and slowly begins to turn into one himself.  I knew the wolf 
man design looked really bad from the previews, but I hoped they were 
saving the good stuff for the paying customers.  Unfortunately no, the 
mess you get in the trailers is what you get in the theater.  The plot 
is pretty paper thin too.  The only thing that interested me was in the 
beginning of the movie they were in San Francisco. And this being from 
the same company (and same director) as The Invisible Man, I 
thought/hoped there might be a direct tie in.  But other than starting 
out in the same city, I didn't notice any other connections to "The 
Invisible Man."  Although I assume at some point they will connect these 
movies together since Universal has clearly been trying to do that since 
their Dark Universe failure.