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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-17 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:16:42 -0800
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I was supposed to do work yesterday. Instead, I did some chores and 
watched TV. (I guess I'll have to get some work done today!)

I watched:

soaps: DOOL - Wed's ep, I guess. This was mostly Philip-Xander drama, 
with Sarah getting Stephanie to agree to keep quiet about the fraudulent 
letter - can't wait until this ends Sarah's marriage when Xander finds 
out she's been lying to him!... EJ and FauxRafe come up with an 
completely ridiculous and implausible story that for some reason Jada 
buys - then EJ decides he wants FauxRafe to impersonate Rafe afterall... 
Leo is back to believing that Javi is the new Lady Whistleblower without 
bothering to ask Javi where he got the Rochester sweatshirt from.
    GH - Fri's ep. Willow relents and lets Carly and Sonny see Michael; 
then they all argue about what to do for Michael's burn treatment, with 
Carly pushing to send Michael to the clinic in Europe - in the end, they 
decide to wake Michael up and ask him... Chase and then Brook Lynn try 
to tell Tracy that she's playing with fire - sure enough, Drew gets 
Martin Gray to get the cops to arrest Tracy!! (Ha!)... After bickering 
with Brook Lynn, NuNuLulu talks with Maxie - Lulu wants to take an 
assistant job at Deception, but she'll be Brook Lynn's assistant and she 
hates Brook Lynn!!

On Call (Prime) - Got through the first 4 episodes of this.
    This show is basically like "The Rookie", but with 0% of the humor 
of "The Rookie" - IOW, it's 100% serious.
    It stars 'A' (well, actually, like "A#3" if I've counted them 
correctly!), aka. "I used to be a PLL, but now I'm a PLL cop, bitches!!" 
Troian Bellisario - she's the training officer (more "Rookie" redux!!) 
to a new trainee (Brandon Larracuente, from "Bloodline" and "The Good 
Doctor"). These two are the only "cast" - everyone else is credited as 
recurring "guest" cast.
    While this is nominally a Dick Wolf production, it feels like Wold 
just his name on this, and Wolf has no creative input, because this show 
feels like the opposite of a Dick Wolf production - as BTR pointed out, 
this show seems very *anti*-woke, which is very un-Dick Wolf like.
    I do like how Eric LaSalle's character is kind of like the show's 
"bad angel" - his character is always pushing for a return to the "old 
ways", when they used to tune up perps as a matter of course (yes, 
please!). Bellisario's character is the "good angel", a by-the-book cop 
who may or may not have turned in some bad cops on the force (they 
haven't revealed if she did this by ep. #4).
    Anyway, this isn't bad. And I liked that they seem to have wrapped 
up the show's main storyarc by the end of ep. #4 (I assume there will be 
a new storyarc for ep's #5-8).
    I also like that this is merely a 30-minute show - feels like all of 
the "filler" of a show like "The Rookie" has been eliminated here.
    I will get to the last 4 ep's today. I will also take a look at the 
dedicated thread once I have gotten through all of the episodes...

I then got to one recorded and one "live" Lifetime flick in the evening:

Dressed to Kill (recorded off LMN on 01/12) - This was actually decent - 
the head assistant(?) (recent Lifetime staple Brianna Cohen) at a 
boutique fashion house is named the successor by the mean fashion head 
(Suzanne R. Neff) over the woman's even meaner daughter (Annie Sullivan, 
effective in the role because you just want to *slap* her!). Then the 
fashion head ends up dead! And the cops think Cohen's character did it!!
    The main problem here? - Despite them trying to throw red herrings 
at the audience, there is only one very obvious suspect (with a 
legitimate motive) here, and the movie goes with exactly *that* suspect 
at the end... So this is an OK thriller, but it really shouldn't keep 
you guessing.

The Lies We Bury (LMN) - This was actually a pretty good thriller, 
because I had no idea where it was going.
    The film's opening is set in 1996, where a convenience store clerk 
is stalked and murdered by 3 masked perps (two men and a woman).
    In the present day, a young new lawyer (Kyla Nova) takes a job with 
an old small-town lawyer (Brian Childers) to stay in town with her 
widowed mom (Lindsay Hartley, who also directs and co-wrote the script 
which seems to based on a book) - the old lawyer has collected cold 
cases over the years, and the new lawyer becomes fascinated with the 
convenience store murder case from 1996, becoming convinced that the 
woman who confessed to the crime isn't the real killer.
    Of course, soon enough, everyone in town seems set upon shutting the 
new lawyer up and getting her off this case. Threats, chases, and 
wackiness ensues!
    This one kept me guessing, though perhaps it shouldn't - the casting 
of Dee Wallace [Stone] probably should have been the big hint!


What did you watch?