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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-21 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:59:32 -0700
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On 4/22/2025 6:21 AM, shawn wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:33:06 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> Yesterday, just soaps:
>>
>> soaps: DOOL - Just pathetic! - Stephanie and Alex stumble upon Xander
>> and Sarah, just after Xander found out about Philip's fraud, and rather
>> than step up and admit that she knew, Sarah lets Xander berate a
>> basically innocent Alex and Stephanie instead. I'm starting to hope
>> something awful happens to Sarah! Philip tells Kate that their fraud is
>> exposed, but that Xander doesn't know about Kate's involvement.
>>     GH - I kind of enjoyed this - the Deception gals fire Natalia (Booby
>> Vista) for being a lying liar, and Sonny fully backs them up, which
>> outrages Natalia (pretty justifiably so in the case of Sonny) - I'm
>> hoping now Natalia plots her revenge! REVENGE!! against Sonny. Jenz
>> Sidwell pleads his son's Marco's case with Alexis, who mostly rolls her
>> eyes at Sidwell. Jordan fills Anna in on her plan to go undercover with
>> Sidwell. Carly insists upon going with Sonny on his trip to L.A. for
>> heart surgery. Josslyn finds Emma Scorpio in a garbage dumpster - rather
>> than be grateful for the rescue, Emma continues to be resentful of Joss.
>>
>> And that was pretty much it. Today, I go back to work for the last 3 and
>> half weeks of classes in the academic calendar.
>>
>> What did you watch?
>>
> 
> I watched SURREALESTATE. First episode of the new season where in the
> team is still broken up with multiple people off living their separate
> lives. Meanwhile a rich guy out fishing brings up a small lockbox with
> a creepy toy inside that apparently held a ghost that possesses him.
> Turns out the ghost was locked away by Luke Roman's dad and he wants
> revenge. Only Roman's dad has died so he will be going after Roman.
> 
> 

I never heard of this before.  From the name, at first I thought this 
was going to be a housing themed reality show.


> What did you watch?

I watched:


The Equalizer - "Sins of the Father" - An old CIA friend on the run is 
kidnapped and his adopted daughter comes to Team Equalizer for help. 
But it turns out this CIA agent and his highly trained daughter, while 
on the run have been using their skills to help people, as they move 
from city to city.  This was obviously a backdoor pilot for a spinoff 
series that I think may have already been picked up.  In this episode 
they left behind a trail of dead bodies littered through New York City. 
They never comment on how they just kill people left and right, then 
walk away from the corpses.  And the closest thing to a consequence is 
sometimes the police will sneer and say they don't like vigilantes.  How 
does she avoid going up on *multiple* murder charges on a *weekly* 
basis?!?  And this episode in particular, it had to be multiple dozens 
of people they killed, then just casually walked away. It's not like the 
dead bodies come with a signed confession note saying they had it coming.


Matlock - I caught up on the last 4 episodes.  SPOILERS!

"The Johnson Case" - Matty continues her investigation into who at the 
firm hid the evidence and narrows it down to Olympia and Julian.  Just 
as Matty clears Julian, it's revealed "The Johnson Case" that Olympia 
has been working on in secret this episode was really Olympia piecing 
together that Matty isn't who she says she is.  Olympia confronts Matty 
at the end.

"I Was That, Too" - Olympia basically takes Matty hostage, although 
Matty offers no resistance.  Olympia takes Matty's phone, forces her to 
text her husband that everything is OK, then locks Matty in a room and 
interrogates her.  The case of the week involves a very pregnant (about 
to pop any second) woman trying to get away from her husband which 
forces Olympia to reluctantly work with Matty to win the case.  The case 
itself was beyond ridiculous.

"Tricks of the Trade - Part One and Part Two" Olympia and Matty make a 
deal where Olympia will let Matty go and not press charges and Matty 
will also not press charges for the false imprisonment, and Olympia will 
do her own investigations to clear Julian.  Except by the end Julian is 
not cleared.  He admits his guilt and begs Olympia for forgiveness.  At 
this point he doesn't know about Matty's involvement, and she's not 
forgiving anything!  But they add an extra little cliffhanger by having 
Matty's grandson's biological father show up saying he wants to be in 
the boy's life.  At this rate I have no idea what they are going to do 
with season 2.