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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-18 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:59:23 -0800
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On 2/19/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

I now have a small backlog of recorded Lifetime/LMN films, and last 
night I had enough time to get through one of these as partly 
"background noise". I also got through some soaps:

soaps: DOOL - Mon's ep. Tate comes in on Holly in her skivvies and Doug; 
Doug quickly takes his leave after having admitted to Holly that he's 
totally in to her!; Tate then tells Holly the news that Johnny and 
Chanel may want to adopt his and Sophia's baby. Johnny and Chanel try to 
figure out if they can/should adopt the baby. Alex and Stephanie have 
Valentine's date. Steve explains to Kayla that he's not thrilled about 
Stephanie and Alex dating.
    GH - Tue's ep. Mostly stale episode, marked by the fact that 
Jonathan Jackson was temporarily out as Lucky, and a storyline that was 
supposed to feature Maxie sported Spinelli instead (did both Jackson and 
Kirsten Storms get sick at the same time?! did a virus race through GH's 
cast at the time?!)... Anyway, the only decent part of this episode was 
Anna pleading with Jason not to kill Cyrus before letting him go from 
police custody. And Dante tries to catch Lulu up on what she missed. 
Otherwise, the rest of this episode was Valentine's Day nonsense which 
isn't worth going over.

Husband, Father, Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (recorded of Lifetime) - 
By pure coincidence, I think this is reairing on LMN on Thursday - but I 
recorded this off Lifetime back in Oct. and decided to pull the trigger 
on it last night.
    Another of Lifetime's "true crime" flicks, I'm not sure how I had 
never heard about this case before!
    The actual crime happened in 2018: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pladl_triple_murder_and_suicide
    Jackie Cruz stars as the killer's abused estranged wife, Alyssa. 
Alyssa married the dude after he groomed her online when she was 15 and 
he was 21(?). He was abusive towards their first daughter, so Alyssa 
insists they put the baby up for adoption. Inexplicably, Alyssa stays 
with this dude for *years*, and they have two more daughters, one of 
whom is somewhat autistic.
    About 18 years after their first daughter's birth, she shows up as a 
teen wanting to meet her bio parents. Cruz's character Alyssa is less 
than thrilled, knowing the monster her husband is, but doesn't put a 
stop to this. Alyssa quickly finally leaves the dude, taking the 2 
younger daughters with her, but Alyssa is unable to take the reunited 
oldest daughter with her as she's 18, and the monster father has already 
gotten in her ear and poisoned her against Alyssa the mom.
    Soon enough, the dude actually seduces the oldest daughter. (This 
has got to at least partially be on the oldest daughter - who let's 
themselves be seduced by their biological dad?!!) Estranged mom Alyssa 
finds out about this and sicks the cops on him, though the dad and the 
daughter both get arrested for incest.
    The title is misleading - in most (fictional) Lifetime flicks, the 
evol! party is murdering people all throughout the movie, but in this 
one, the actual killings don't come until the very end of the movie. But 
this flick ends up where you would have expected if you'd thought about it.
    I'm not a fan of Lifetime's "true crime" flicks, but this one at 
least had the virtue that I had never heard this story before, and that 
its storyline (dad-daughter consensual incest!) is so off-the-wall as to 
be novel.


What did you watch?