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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-26 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:16:55 -0800
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On 2/27/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

Yesterday was effectively a half-workday, and I was smarter about it - I 
knew if I tried to wait until the evening, I'd be too tired to watch 
anything (and it turns out I would have been!), so this time I watched 
stuff in the afternoon after I got home!

This allowed me to get thru a couple more "Paradise" ep's, watch soaps, 
and even watch a movie I recorded off Lifetime a few months ago:

Paradise (Hulu) - Ep's #1.5 & 1.6.
    Some
    SPOILERS
    here
    I guess...
    These episodes were better, as they focused more on the mysteries of 
the case.
    I didn't read too closely, not wanting to be spoiled, but I think 
BTR objected to something in episode #5: they show the Washington 
Monument almost completely submerged under water - the monument is over 
550-ft tall! So the oceans rose (or the continents sunk?) by 500-ft?! 
This seems wildly insane.
    Later, the daughter also claims that Atlanta was nuked on the same 
day. None of this "apocalypse" stuff is making any sense - have the 
writers worked all this through at all?!!
    Ep. #5 gives us background Pres. Bradford's last day - this seems to 
be where he found out that the exploration mission outside was 
assassinated on "Sinatra's" orders (and also that that mission had found 
an actual live human being), after figuring out obscure clues from his 
dementia-ridden father (Gerald McRaney). He tries to pass this info off 
to his son, but his crummy son rebuffs any overtures. (I don't feel 
sorry for the son about his guilt on this at all.) Also in this ep., 
Collins (Sterling K. Brown) and Robinson (Krys Marshall) finally start 
working together, as both now suspect Sinatra had Bradford and Agent 
Billy Pace killed. In the end, Collins and Robinson decide to do 
something radical. However, in what I found to be a really dumb plot 
twist, it's revealed that Collins' daughter is the one who stole 
Bradford's tablet o' secrets.
    Sidenote: Enuka Okuma (Rookie Bleu!) appears in this episode as 
Collins' wife, and apparently she was uncredited which I find kind of 
inexplicable.
    Episode #6 was better still (mostly), generally dispensing with 
flashbacks, and focusing on Collins' and Robinson's plot to basically 
launch a revolution in Paradise. This episode is disappointing in 
showing that Sarah Shahi's Dr. Gabriela is basically nothing more than 
Sinatra's lackey and stooge (is she really so dumb that she can't see 
what is really going on here?!). Anyway, while Collins distracts Sinatra 
(and Gabriela), Robinson steals all of the weapons out of the armory in 
Paradise, and then she and Collins assemble a "crew" of the security 
types (luckily for them sans the young and cute but EVOL! bitchface, 
Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom)) to stage an armed revolt. Meanwhile, Sinatra 
orders Jane to eliminate Collins, but when Jane can't find Collins, she 
targets the daughter instead. During the armed insurrection, Sinatra 
orders the "sky" shutdown, reminding everyone they're hiding in a cave, 
and breaking the social cohesion that Dr. Gabriela has worked to hard to 
build. The ending of this one was disappointing - rather than put a 
bullet in Sinatra, Collins lets her talk, and she claims that Collins 
wife is still alive somewhere (which I am assuming is an outright lie) - 
I would have shot her in the face on the spot!

soaps: DOOL - Disappointing - they finally get back to EJ and Rafe, and 
reveal that Rafe was injected with the memory-erasing drug because 
Kristen had interrupted their struggle. But EJ plans to reinsert 
amnesiac Rafe back into his life. Meanwhile, everyone else seems to 
figure out FauxRafe is Arnold Feniger - NuGabi even gets a hair sample 
and intends to run a DNA test (I pray that she does!). But when Jada and 
Shawn go to confront Feniger, they find Rafe who can't even remember his 
own name... Meanwhile, in another tedious round, Brady confronts Kristen 
and vows to have her arrested, and for the umpteenth time she plays the 
"Rachel" card, and once again Brady looks ready to crumble.  >:/
    GH - Love this! - NuJackBrennan plays every mindgame in the book! 
and convinces dumb Josslyn to agree to be a WSB agent!! Can't wait to 
see where this goes!!... As expected, Drew lies about not being Jason's 
alibi, causing Carly to castigate him and then tear a strip off Willow 
for being a braindead dupe (true!) which causes Willow to get all 
defensive. (Can't wait to see what happens when Willow figures out she 
has been duped!!)... Brook Lynn and Chase disagree about next steps in 
child rearing. Tracy blocks Drew from using the "Quartermaine" name, 
which causes others, esp. Lois and Gio to be outraged. Curtis plans to 
meet with a fellow Congressman to block Drew for any real power.

Don't Let Him Find You (recorded off Lifetime in late November) - Well, 
the best I can say about this one is that it kind of kept me guessing 
most of the way through.
    But, it turns out - this is another Lifetime flick where the title 
actually gives it away!!
    Recent Lifetime staple Brianna Cohen plays a wife and mom who 
apparently has a secret past (pre-name change) that she's trying to run 
away from. But when she saves a woman's life, and displays obvious 
medical knowledge - which is all caught on phone cam! - her cover is 
blown as the footage is picked up by media.
    She is at first blackmailed by a shady internet "true crime" 
podcaster(?) - but when he ends up dead, she's the prime suspect. Then 
she starts getting creepy texts, and is maybe being followed. Is her 
life in danger?! (And I'm starting to wonder if her husband (Philip 
Boyd) is behind this...)
    Then there's the whole subplot of why she dropped off the grid in 
the first place.
    Anyway, this was OK, but I felt like the ending really let things 
down - this needed a much better Third Act to pull everything together.


What did you watch?