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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-07 (Friday)
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On Friday, I had to give exams to 3 classes, so that took most of the day.

Despite that, I decided to finish off season #1 of "Paradise" yesterday, 
and then did yesterday night's LMN flick, plus I did soaps:

soaps: Both Thur's ep's.
    GH - NuNuLulu goes to Carly for advice (is she DAFT, or 
something?!?!!), and despite Lulu wanting to tell Dante the truth (very 
clearly Lulu's purpose would actually be to take Brook Lynn down!!), 
Carly points out the parallels to both Bobby's and Carly's earlier 
pregnancy situations, which seems to get Lulu to mostly back off, though 
Lulu says she'll know what to do when she sees Dante. More Quartermaine 
drama with Gio. [roll] Portia consults Ric about what to do about Drew's 
blackmail, and he tells her to string Drew along until he figures out 
what to do. Isaiah wants Willow to be an ER nurse (uh... can Willow be 
trusted in a crisis?! I think not!).
    DOOL - This was mostly Joy Wesley and Rafe drama - Stephanie resists 
the urge to tell Alex that Joy might be pregnant, while Joy seems to be 
telling everyone she can get her hands on about it, including JJ and the 
stripper from FauxRafe's bachelor party!... Meanwhile, in a dumb 
development, Rafe suddenly remembers everything, except what happened 
after he surprised Arnold Feniger and was knocked out. Jada runs his 
fingerprints (really?! no one did this before?!!) and confirms it's 
Rafe, and is elated. NuGabi goes to EJ demanding to know where Rafe is, 
and she then pulls a gun on EJ (man, I was hoping the bitch would just 
shoot him!!), but JJ stops Gabi at the last second by telling her that 
they've found Rafe. Oh, and that DiMera stooge lady tells EJ that she 
had to find a "permanent solution" for the Arnold Feniger problem, but 
never explains what she means by that!

Paradise (Hulu) - Ep's #1.7 & 1.8, the last two ep's of "Paradise" 
season #1.
    I can't help but admit that I was disappointed by a significant 
portion of these.
    While ep. #1.7 was taut, I didn't buy its central conceit - that a 
massive natural disaster would inevitably lead to Total Global 
Thermonuclear War(tm!) (didn't they retire this chestnut with 
"WarGames"?! ;p ) - to say that would be counterproductive to all 
involved is an understatement. (I also didn't buy that Russia would take 
on China - in present circumstances, that would be nigh on impossible!) 
So I didn't buy a lot of what happened in this ep. They also keep taking 
about the 300-ft tsunami wave, when it was clearly more like a 500-ft 
tall tsunami wave, which the "experts" would have figured out pretty 
damn quickly. And what was the random nuke that Collins saw from the 
plane?! 'Cos it sure as heck wasn't Denver! And I also didn't buy that 
the U.S. and Bradford have a massive "Off" Button that could stop Total 
Global Thermonuclear War(tm!) dead in its tracks... And then finally, we 
get the unwelcome reveal that You-Know-Who is still alive.
    Ep. #1.8 continues with the massive disappointment going back to ep. 
#1.6 - and that's Collins not just shooting Sinatra (whom these episodes 
do confirm, is indeed a monster!) right between the eyes. And, of 
course, he "jumps" for Sinatra as soon as she claims she is holding 
Collins' daughter (I don't even remember Collins verifying this fact!). 
This leads to the reveal of Bradford's killer - the good news is that at 
least it ties into earlier events. The bad news is that the killer's 
motive doesn't even make sense (shouldn't the killer have rightly wanted 
to take out Sinatra?!). I also dislike the dropped character of the 
"city designer" dude - is he not in Paradise with the rest of them?! If 
not, why not?!... I did like Jane turning on Sinatra; I didn't like that 
Jane just seems to be a garden-variety psycho - I was really hoping 
there would be a reveal where Jane was some kind of criminal mastermind. 
And are we going to finally get some background on the Jane character in 
season #2? Where the Hell did Jane come from?!... In the end, the finale 
does wrap up the show's main storyline, but puts Sinatra on indefinite 
ice (I guess Jane is such an amazing shot that she can bring you right 
up to the brink of death without taking you over!!) and sends Collins 
"outside". And this was another dumb sequence - I thought it was 
volcanic/nuclear winter outside, with the sun blotted out for 
years(?)/decades(?), and yet Collins literally "flies off into the 
sunset"?!! Bah.

Deadly Girls Trip (LMN) - I recorded this, but it wasn't getting my full 
attention, to the point that I literally had to rewind more than once 
just to see what I had missed while I wasn't paying attention!!
    This was pretty silly - four 40-ish gals head out for a weekend(?) 
away, when one of them (Kate Dickey, who in the past has played villains 
as often as not!) ends up dead. This makes the main one (recent Lifetime 
staple Kristi Murdock, who has probably starred in more Lifetime flicks 
lately than even Brianna Cohen!) suspicious, which makes her start 
investigating, which pisses off her other two friends (Charlotte 
Hemmings, and Lesa Wilson who is way taller than I thought she was!), 
who of course are complicit in the death somehow.
    But there's way more going on here than just that - Murdock's 
character is convinced her husband (Alex Trumble, disappointingly not 
playing a villain in a Lifetime flick this time!) is about to cheat on 
her (if he hasn't already!), and one of the other ones (Hemmings) is 
fleeing an abusive husband.
    Pretty much all of these storylines end up predictably converging. Meh.


What did you watch?