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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-03 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 11:08:36 -0800
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On 2/4/25 8:17 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 2/4/2025 7:25 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> On 2/4/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> After an arduous workout, I watched:
>>>
>>> Nothing.
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> Monday's are going to be my longest workdays (by far) this semester. 
>> So yesterday, all I got through was DOOL and a Lifetime flick I had 
>> missed:
>>
>> The Sunday before last, I just plum missed a Lifetime flick - didn't 
>> record it; forgot it was even on! So that meant:
>>
>> Match, Meet, Murder (OnDemand) - This flick I had to pull off OnDemand 
>> (which meant it had the usual commercial load, and 2-hour runtime) 
>> because I forgot to record it.
>>     This flick was just OK, if that.
>>     Lingerie(! 'cos, of course!) fashion designer (Stephanie Sy) uses 
>> a dating app and is matched with a "millionaire" (Jacob Blair, who 
>> usually plays baddies in Lifetime flicks). Her friend quickly shows 
>> her that the dude was previously on a reality show (something like 
>> "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire"!) - the friend then reports that 
>> the winning woman/ fiancee "disappeared" (we see her get murdered in 
>> the film's opening), and this doesn't set off any alarm bells about 
>> the "millionaire" dude!!??!!
>>     We also meet the reality show's producer/host (Lisa Marie 
>> DiGiacinto), a smarmy piece of work.
>>     The film pretty quickly reveals that the dude is at least some 
>> kind of con man. 
> 
> He was a fake millionaire on the millionaire show?

SPOILERS:
Yes. And the producer covered that (and his crimes!) up after she found 
out, lest the scandal tank her reality TV show and her industry 
credibility!!

>> Which pretty much means he also has to be a murderer.
>>     This flick pretty much goes exactly where you expect it to.
>>     The only thing I really kind of liked here was the film's 
>> implication that the real villain of the piece was the reality show! 
>> producer! (Reality show's producer = worse than murderer! Ha!)
>>     But as Lifetime flicks go, this one definitely belongs in the 
>> bottom half.