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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-08 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 10:33:54 -0700
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Sorry this is late today - it's a combination of the switch to Daylight 
Savings Time and me deciding to run errands this morning (to beat the 
crowd, thanks to DST!!).

Yesterday, I largely played a video game and did some chores, but I also 
got through soaps, and a couple of Lifetime flicks I had recorded earlier:

soaps: Y&R - Tue's and Wed's ep's. Largely concerned Sharon and 
Filis[sic!] being held captive together and bickering, while Nick, 
Summer and Daniel, and Billy, try to figure out what happened to Sharon 
and Filis... Meanwhile, Victor and Adam tip their hands when they reveal 
that they know Billy is launching a new company - I wonder if Jack will 
now figure out that Victor has planted moles in Chabot?
    GH - Fri's ep. This ep was mostly disappointing, except for the 
scenes with Lulu and Brook Lynn - NuNuLulu confronts Brook Lynn about 
not telling Dante for two decades that they had a child together, 
revealing to Brook Lynn for the first time that it was a son: Amanda 
Setton was good in these scenes (it feels like she's rarely called on to 
really "act" on this show!); at the end, Lulu tells Brook Lynn to tell 
Dante, or she will... The semi-good parts were Josslyn being trained in 
the ways of being a "spy" (or an "assassin"?!!) by a handler... The rest 
of this was Sonny, or Alexis, or Carly and NuJack Brennan drama that I 
don't really care about - though on the Alexis front, it feels like Jenz 
Sidwell is setting up to frame Alexis for some crime (maybe, murder?!!).

golf - Only saw a few minutes of the Arnold Palmer. I will probably 
watch it more closely today, on the final day.

Then I watched a couple of Lifetime flicks I had recorded:

Date at Your Own Risk (recorded in mid-Feb) - I really didn't care for 
this flick at all. It went exactly where you expected it to, with its 
feints and red herrings being totally unconvincing. I wasn't even giving 
it my full attention, and I was still easily able to follow along.

The Perfect Killer (recorded on March 1) - I liked this one a lot 
better. It had a literal(!) cast of thousands as suspects, and largely 
kept me guessing until near the end.
    I did think they could have "gone for it" more with this one - I was 
really hoping the stepmom (JaNae Armogan) was in on it, but it's very 
rare for a Lifetime flick to "go there", so it's not like I was 
expecting it.
    In this one, a married couple apparently get a frantic call from the 
husband's daughter (Laura Provensano, who just did her first Lifetime 
flick a few months ago, and has already knocked out this one and a third 
Lifetime flick coming up since then!). But it's a fake "AI" call, to 
lure the father to a location where he is clearly premeditatively murdered.
    Coincidentally(?), at about this same time, the girl's estranged 
mother (recent Lifetime staple Kirsten Comerford), who had lost all 
visitation rights a decade before, shows up as its the girl's 16th 
birthday and she can now legally contact the daughter.
    So, who killed the dad?! - Did the estranged mom kill the dad for 
preventing her from seeing the daughter for a decade? Did the stepmom do 
it? Perhaps it was the father's business partner? Or was it someone 
else, as plenty have motive when the secrets start tumbling out!!
    Like I said, this was a pretty good thriller/mystery, as it least it 
took a while to figure out who the killer was.

It was at this time that I realized that I had earlier failed to record 
Lifetime's "Lethal Desire" last month, and it's not airing any time 
soon, nor is it on OnDemand! Luckily, I can still watch it off the 
Lifetime website, so I will probably do that today.


What did you watch?