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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-16 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:02:50 -0700
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On 4/17/2025 8:50 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> I watched:
> 
> Got this and replied to Ob Veeus this morning
> 
> Ob Veeus:
> SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER:  The first episode of this CW show that felt a lot
> like a PBS series.
> 
> 

This is already airing?  I have seen *zero* commercials for this.  I've 
only seen a couple of pictures online that made me vaguely aware it existed.


I watched:


The Continental: From the World of John Wick (Peacock) This is a new 
prequel series that follows a young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell as a 
younger version of Ian McShane's character from the movies.  The series 
is made up of three feature length episodes.  I watched the first two 
episodes last night.

"Brothers in Arms" - This first episode is set in the 70s and opens with 
a robbery at the Continental Hotel by Frankie Scott.  Frankie is 
Winston's estranged brother.  Frankie goes missing so the people who run 
the Hotel (Mel Gibson plays the current person running the hotel) kidnap 
Winston and bring him to the U.S. to find his brother.  I think.  Up 
until just now as I was writing out the events, I'm not at all sure I 
was following what was happening.  The series is shot ridiculously dark, 
it's hard to see what is happening.  The plot was convoluted with way 
too many characters.

"Loyalty to the Master" - Episode 2. - I followed episode 2 even less 
than I followed the first episode.  It was pretty much just background 
noise.  But I did notice the character of "Charon" who was placed by 
Lance Reddick in the movies plays a larger role.  He's working for Mel 
Gibson, but befriends Winston.  Basically what I could gleam from 
episode 2 was Winston is planning on attacking the hotel and trying to 
seize control using his own army, which includes the homeless people who 
were were introduced in John Wick 2. I haven't noticed a younger version 
of Lawrence Fishburne's character yet.