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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-24 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 09:44:57 -0800
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While there is still some work left to do before classes start next 
week, I basically treated Friday as a "holiday". So I did nothing, and 
didn't even watch much - just one Lifetime flick...:

soaps: DOOL - Thur's ep (I believe). Not great. Kristen (and to a lesser 
extent Brady) are freaking out about Rachel being missing - at the end, 
Rachel (still the original child actress before the recast) arrives at 
her destination (and I couldn't tell where that was...). Sophia (still 
the original actress here too, before next week's(?) recast) gets yelled 
at by her mean, awful mom for suggesting adoption for Sophia's embryo; 
Ava V. unwisely tries to mediate with the mean mom. Holly helps Tate 
find Rachel, but then flees when Sophia shows up to cry on Tate's shoulder.
    GH - Also Thur's ep. Not a super interesting ep. Cody is in jail - 
first NuNuNuMolly is disgusted by Cody, and then Mac tries to talk him 
down. At the cop shop, Lucky and Lizzie pump Felicia for info on Cyrus. 
Lucas tells Josslyn their theory about Cyrus killing patients (big 
mistake! as Josslyn will probably try to go murder Cyrus now!). Brick 
gets Sonny an out-of-town appointment with a cardiologist. NuNuJordan 
warns Laura about Jenz(sp?) Sidwell (Carlo Rota), who is openly 
wandering around town because no law enforcement agencies are looking 
for him! Laura turns down testifying for Ava in the custody hearing 
(bitch!), but Ric gets Ava a new place that's not a hotel room! for the 
custody hearing.

My Family's Killer Affairs (LMN) - If you're suspicious that Kabby 
Borders is playing a seemingly "minor part" in this flick, let's just 
say you're on the right track! (Sidenote: I don't like Kabby Borders' 
new shorter hairstyle as much - hopefully she goes back to longer hair 
soon.)
    Anyway, in this one, we get one of these improbable "fertility 
clinic 'switch'!" storylines - a widow (Lifetime semi-regular April 
Martucci) and her high school senior-aged daughter (Isabella Carlsen 
from 2024's "Killing All My Sisters") discover that a fertility clinic 
"mistake" means that they have an older daughter/sister (the zaftig 
Josie Juliette Wert) out there in town.
    But to add to the complication, the latter's mother was just 
recently murdered. Of course, the film opens with Wert's character says 
she wishes her mom was dead, and she doesn't have an alibi for the time 
of her mom's murder, so the film wants the audience, and the sister 
character played by Carlsen, to think Wert's character is the murderer. 
This is too obvious a red herring.
    There are other suspects, starting with Wert's father (Bourke Floyd) 
whom I was suspicious of the whole time. But then there's the question 
as to why you would bring Kabby Borders on to this flick just play 
Floyd's sister and Wert's aunt!
    Anyway, this wasn't deep, and was barely enjoyable (I did rather 
like Wert in this, though her character is all over the place!), though 
I did enjoy the ending. (Of course, the very ending doesn't follow up on 
what happens to the killer, something I hate when these films do this!)


What did you watch?