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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-26 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:38:28 -0800
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On 2/27/2025 8:16 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> 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?!!

Yes, they pull a lot of it together in Episide 7.


>     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?
>