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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-06 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 08:01:47 -0700
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On 4/7/2025 5:47 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 4/7/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> 
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Sunday, I actually worked much of the day, so all I got through was 
> soaps and golf:
> 
> soaps: GH - Thur's and Fri's ep's. Both of these episodes had Joss, who 
> is near the end of her "spy" training - but Joss catches her trainer in 
> a sketchy situation at a coffee shop that looked like it involved a 
> shady spycraft "handoff" to him. When NuJack Brennan shows up to 
> "graduate" Joss, she rats the supervisor out to Brennan - just as I 
> expected, this turned out to be a test, to see if Joss would rat out the 
> supervisor under suspicious circumstances. So Joss "graduates" to "spy", 
> and now they want her to spy on someone in Port Charles (I'm guessing 
> it'll be Jenz Sidwell)... In other news, Sasha intends to put Jason's 
> name on her baby's birth cert (this lie is getting ridiculous!). Sonny 
> threatens Sidwell over the fire-bombing which Natalia overhears (Sonny 
> never sees her there). Lucy tries to drum up performers for the annual 
> Nurses' Ball [roll]... I'm glad they don't seem to plan to string out 
> the Kristina thing - Lucky goes to confront Kristina about it; Ric wakes 
> up when Ava is present, and reveals the car's brakes failed, and later 
> remembers Kristina at the accident scene; Ava investigates why her car 
> crashed (so I guess Ric was driving Ava's car during the crash), and 
> finds out from the impound lot dude that her brake lines were cut!
> 
> golf - Brian Harman didn't do it "cleanly", but he did manage to hold on 
> during the final day - and though he did lose strokes over his Day 3 
> score, he still managed to win by 3. Nearly everyone else on the 
> leaderboard lost more strokes than Harman did over Day 3! (Hoge and 
> Novak were +4 for the day!) Only young guy Ryan Gerard seemed to do 
> better on the Final Day, going -3 on Day 4, and ending up in second place.
> 
> And that was it - otherwise, I was leaving movies on the TV on in the 
> background, and doing work stuff, or playing video games.
> 
> What did you watch?
> 


Andor (4K discs) I binged this Star Wars TV series, which is also a 
prequel to "Rogue One" and follows the birth of the Rebel Alliance. 
Diego Luna stars as Cassian Andor, a petty criminal who has a bad run in 
with some empirial officers and winds up killing them and going on the 
run.  The higher ups in the empire are happy to write off the deaths, 
but one determined officer just won't let it go and spends the series 
chasing Andor.  The series also follows  Stellan Skarsgård as one of the 
leaders in what would one day become the rebel alliance.  He recruits 
Andor for a mission.

I was on the fence as to if I wanted to watch this or not, but decided 
to just go ahead and put the disc in.  I knew the show was really good, 
but would it be rewatchable?  Turns out the show is really great and was 
easily rewatchable as one of the best TV shows ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RCme2zZRY


Law & Order - "A Perfect Family" - A woman with mental health issues 
kills her daughter so the police arrest the husband for not letting her 
take medications.  Although as the defense points out, he didn't 
actually prevent her from taking the meds, he just said he didn't want 
her too.  Anyway the man gets prosecuted because the writers are running 
out of ideas.  I kept thinking the woman was seeing a therapist.  If the 
therapist thought she was a danger to herself or others, then why didn't 
the therapist have her committed, or the police arrest the therapist for 
not doing something.  And if the trained licensed therapist thought she 
was safe to be on the streets without meds, then how would the husband 
know different?


Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - "Accomplice Liability" - This was a 
follow-up from an earlier episode where Carisi was held hostage.  During 
that episode Carisi told one of the criminals he could shoot his partner 
and it would be self defense of others.  The guy did it, everyone 
escaped but the who shot his partner was charged with the murder of the 
guy he shot.  This episode focused on the trial with the defense being, 
the DA told me to do it.