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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-05 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 10:46:46 -0700
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On 4/6/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

> What did you watch?

I finished "Reacher" season #3, watched a dumb movie off Tubi, and 
watched the "Who Shot EJ?" episode of DOOL, along with some golf:

soaps: DOOL - Thur's ep. This is really dumb - Why are they playing coy 
with who shot EJ?! Hint: It's the character that was shown tossing a 
gun, and then just left town possibly for good (Ava). I don't know why 
they are trying to make a mystery out of this!! Anyway, Ava gets written 
out of the show in this ep. (which pisses me off!!). And nothing else 
important except for EJ getting shot happened.

golf - Day 3 of the (Valero) Texas Open. Honestly, I wasn't paying much 
attention, except to note that older guy Brian Harman was in the lead by 
several strokes and should win this unless he melts down on Day 4.

Reacher (Prime) - Ep's #3.7 & #3.8, the season finale.
    Overall, I did enjoy season #3 quite a bit, definitely more than 
season #2, and maybe even more than season #1 (though I liked that 
season #1 was patented "Reacher against town", which they've definitely 
gotten away from since then).
    I was disappointed that Reacher never got to bang the cute French 
maid before she was killed (and his cover was blown).
    I was also disappointed that we didn't get any real naked nudity 
from Sonya Cassidy (after Willa Fitzgerald ponied up for that back in 
season #1).
    I definitely enjoyed ep. #3.5, where Reacher's cover is blown and he 
barely escapes with his life, but taking a whole bunch of thugs and 
giving him the "CW-Arrow" treatment!
    In fact, this season is a departure from the previous two in how 
many people Reacher just summarily executes rather than killing in 
"self-defense"!
    I did enjoy the Reacher-vs-Paulie fight in the finale, though it 
went on, like, two segments too long (Paulie definitely should have been 
dead at the end of the "ocean" segment!), though I did like how Reacher 
ultimately dispatched Paulie!
    I also liked how Sonya Cassidy dumped *Reacher* at the end, rather 
than the other way around - nice change of pace!
    Good work from Anthony Michael Hall in these ep's.
    This show has already had Hall and Robert Patrick as "baddies" - I 
will be disappointed if Neal McDonough (or Ron Perlman) don't show up as 
the main baddie of season #4!
    But I look forward to season #4 - though I am curious about what 
book they will choose to adapt next (that has not been announced).

Zero Hour (Tubi) - There are *multiple movies* with this title, 
including the post-apocalyptic 1957 flick "Zero Hour!" with Dana 
Andrews... But this was a low-budget 2023 entry that clocks in at about 
70 minutes.
    Even that was too long.
    I watched this mainly because it stars Mikaela Hoover - who is 
literally probably best known for being in 2 episodes of "Two Broke 
Girls" (so she's not a major actress!) - and Sarah Dumont (who, based on 
the name, I confused with *Emma* Dumont!).
    This was a one-man movie show: written, directed and co-starring 
Justin Groetsch (who?!) - well, it was actually him and his wife (or 
sister?), as she produced.
    Did Groetsch really think he was being clever with this flick?!
    He tries a "twist" at the end, but that lasts for all of about a 
minute, before he launches a "double-twist" ending which didn't work for 
me at all. And he keeps showing flashbacks to explain/justify these lame 
twists. This didn't work at all either.
    The only parts that work (very!) mildly are the parts in the middle 
with Hoover trying to escape late-night intruders into her office. But 
this flick takes too long to get going, isn't all that great in the 
middle, and pretty much falls apart at the end with the lame "twists".
    Bah!

What did you watch?