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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-09 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:51:14 -0700
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While I did get stuff done on Sunday (both some work stuff, and 
household chores like working up my taxes), I was still able to take it 
mostly easy yesterday, and watch some TV:

soaps: Y&R - Thur's and Fri's ep. A lot of this was taken up with the 
Summer-Kyle-Claire triangle, with Summer seemingly getting more 
determined to get Kyle back, with even Jack Abbott picking up on it. And 
it's freaking Claire out some (maybe she's get homicidal again?!). The 
rest of this was more Damien drama, which I don't really care about.
    DOOL - Fri's ep. Predictably, Brady pressuring Ava to drop the 
charges against everyone has blowback, when Kristen's crazy mommy again 
targets Ava after she's released from prison. Tate continues trashing 
"thief" Doug to Holly, esp. when she admits Doug stole "Julie's 
necklace", and she reverts to Holly the Brat form when she blows Tate 
off after Tate admits the adoption lunch was a disaster. Leo 
interrogates Doug about his feelings for Holly. Finally, Marlena and 
Steve (Patch!) are going leave town to look for John.

golf - Day 3 leader Collin Morikawa seemed to have the Arnold Palmer in 
hand, until Russell Henley eagled the 16th hole to vault into the lead. 
Morikawa could never recover it, and had to settle for second, with 
Henley winning his first tournament since 2022.

Then I watched a couple of Lifetime flicks:

Lethal Desire (Lifetime app) - Sidenote: I originally tried to watch 
this off the Lifetime website, using AirPlay to send it to my TV, but 
there was no way to AirPlay or Cast directly from the Lifetime website, 
and using AirPlay to send my whole screen to the TV ended up making the 
playback of the Lifetime flick from the website choppy/jumpy... Luckily, 
I then remembered I still have the Lifetime app on the Apple TV, and 
using that instead eliminated the playback issues. (Sidenote of a 
Sidenote: I checked, and all of my old ABC/Disney channel apps (e.g. 
Freeform) no longer work at all; neither did the old Fox network app - 
so I deleted all of these apps off the Apple TV.)
    I mostly enjoyed this flick. The only real issue was, despite the 
subject matter, it wasn't very "steamy" and I think no "love scenes" 
were shown.
    Gist: Woman (Kayla Raelle Holder), in a miserable and failing 
marriage (we don't find out until near the end of the flick that they 
haven't had sex in a year!) to a jerk (Ty Trumbo), moves to a new city 
thanks to jerk husband's job.
    Once in the "company neighborhood" of the new town, they meet the 
neighbor couple (Lifetime semi-staple Justin Berti (but he usually plays 
villains!) and Alexandra Corin Johnston (Shark Girl!!)) and soon find 
out they're "swingers"! (In fact, everyone in this neighborhood seems to 
be!) The woman, desperate to save their marriage, gets the husband to 
agree to this nonsense.
    But, soon after, the neighbor (Berti) ends up dead the morning after 
Our Heroine!(tm) stayed over with the neighbor, when the husband was out 
of town (but it sure seemed like she was drugged!). And conveniently, 
the evidence seems to point at Our Heroine!(tm) as the prime suspect, 
esp. as far as the suspicious and hostile detective is concerned.
    Can Our Heroine!(tm) clear her name as the bodies start piling up?!
    This being a Lifetime flick with this particular set-up, I'll give 
you one guess as to who's trying to frame Our Heroine!(tm) for murder 
most foul!
    However, I found the ending's final "twist" to be preposterous.
    Overall, I did enjoy this one, and Kayla Raelle Holder (and Alyona 
Grace (Real), who plays her sister) fill out "sexy dresses" well. But 
this didn't get nearly prurient enough for the subject matter, and like 
I said the final reveal was pretty ridiculous.

The Last Woman Who Lived Here (Lifetime) - I enjoyed this one much less 
than "Lethal Desire".
    Gist: New couple (again!) move into a new house. But the husband 
(David Chinchilla) hides from the wife (Tamara Almeida, headlining her 
second or third Lifetime flick) that the house is a probable "murder 
house" - the previous young woman living there died under mysterious 
circumstances.
    Of course, once the wife finds out, she starts investigating the 
young woman's death, and soon enough becomes convinced that she was in 
fact murdered.
    Wackiness ensues!
    At least this time, they didn't go with the obvious - that the 
husband was somehow involved! This time, the husband was just a chump.


What did you watch?