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On 3/7/2025 5:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 3/7/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> The day before giving an exam, I'm usually busy, and so it was 
> yesterday. So all I got through were soaps:
> 
> soaps: Y&R - Mon's ep. This was mostly a snooze. Nate is indignant that 
> Lily interfered with and tried to get dirt on Damien. Damien meets with 
> his mom Amy, and seems to reconcile. Billy and Sally cook dinner for 
> Jack and Diane. Meh.
>     GH - Wed's ep. While Maxie stalls/runs interference, Lulu goes 
> through Martin's notes discovering Brook Lynn and Dante had a son in 
> high school (but apparently not that it's Gio), and that Dante doesn't 
> know about it; later, while Lois retrieves the notes from Martin to 
> destroy them (and I think Martin realized they'd been tampered with), 
> Lulu goes to Cody to surreptitiously confirm that Brook Lynn had a child 
> way back when. Felicia is concerned about Carly's relationship with 
> NuJack Brennan. While out to dinner with Jack, Carly concludes he's a 
> "player", and tries to stop the date, but Jack talks his way out of it. 
> (Meanwhile, Jack Brennan gets an update about Josslyn's spy training 
> during the date!) Portia whines to Ava about Drew blackmailing her, but 
> Ava can't offer much help! Dante's son Rocco gets a location from 
> Charlotte, and is outraged when Jason's son Danny tells Jason the 
> location - Jason and Anna then immediately leave town without telling 
> anyone to try to retrieve Charlotte.
> 
> Besides that, I was working on stuff.
> 
> What did you watch?
> 

I watched:

Invincible (Amazon) "What Have I Done?" - Season 3, penultimate episode. 
  Angstrom, the dimension shifting villain, turns out not to be as dead 
as thought.  And if you saw the bloodied mess that Invincible left the 
last time they fought that was a surprise.  Anyway Angstrom recruited 18 
evil versions of Invincible from across the multiverse and basically 
lets them lose on Earth to destroy everything in sight and make sure 
everyone blames Invincible, even if later they find out it wasn't him, 
no one would care.  This was an action packed nonstop adrenaline rush 
episode as this was basically what a full Viltrum invasion would look 
like.  I don't want to spoil what went down, but it was really good, and 
set up the finale.


Matlock - "This is That Moment" - Episode 12, from a few weeks ago.  The 
firm handles a divorce / custody case and because this is TV show, in 
the middle of the case one of the lawyers from the same firm suddenly 
takes over representing the other side.  But not only lawyers from the 
same firm, but lawyers from the same firm who just happen to be in the 
middle of their own divorce.  Did I mention this is a TV show?


Severance (ApplyTV+) - "Sweet Vitriol" - Season 2, episode 8.  This is 
one of those confusing (even for this show) episodes that is nothing but 
the writers messing the audience.  None of the main characters show up. 
The episode focuses on Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) visiting her 
home town and talking to family.  But everyone talks weird, because this 
Severance and that's what they do on this show.  If any episode was 
going to make someone on the fence say, I'm out, this is that episode. 
I'm not out, but any more like this and I will be.


Mickey 17 (theatrical) New sci-fi movie written and directed by Bong 
Joon-ho, based on the novel Mickey 7.  Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, 
a man who books passage on a spaceship leaving Earth to colonize a new 
planet.  But in order to get on board with no money he volunteered to be 
an "expendable."  Basically they send him to do all the dangerous stuff 
and if he gets killed they simply print out a new version of him with 
the same memories.  Because he's an expendable they treat him like dirt, 
and don't just send him on dangerous missions, they send him on 
*unnecessarily* dangerous missions just to see what happens, because why 
not.  They can always make a new one.  Steven Yeun co stars as Mickey's 
friend.  Along with Mark Ruffalo as a cult like leader who is heading 
the colony, and Toni Collette as Ruffalo's wife.  I'm still not sure 
what to make of this movie.  I guess I liked it, but it was a bit long. 
They could have easily shaved off 10 or 15 minutes.  If you liked, 
"Moon" this is basically a comedic version of that.