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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-26 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:26:35 -0700
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Yesterday, I only did "work-work" in the morning, taking it easy the 
rest of the day. And as there was nothing that I wanted to watch on 
Lifetime last night (and this week's golf tourney is one I don't like or 
watch), I actually got through a movie as well!

So, I watched:

soaps: Both Thur's ep's.
    DOOL - Ulch. The new Rachel child actress premiered in this ep, and 
I don't like her! - While the old Rachel child actress wasn't very good, 
she did get the "vibe" of the role right, playing Rachel as 
matter-of-factly a budding psychopath, which is the spot-on take. The 
new actress (who is probably a little older than the former child 
actress) may be more expressive, but she's playing Rachel as a 
garden-variety brat, which is all wrong, IMO... Anyway, Kristen throws 
water on Xander after they publicly argue, which gives Xander the 
opportunity to YA take his shirt off in public! EJ has supposedly turned 
over a new leaf, and supposedly can't remember the shooting (it's all he 
dreamed about while in the coma!!), but seems to have remembered finding 
Rafe's listening device. Ava is apparently not in Hong Kong - she's 
supposedly gone to a Tibetan monestary! (aren't those only for men!?!). 
And of course the cops can't match EJ's bullet to any gun. [roll]
    GH - I knew this was going to happen! - First Marco accidentally 
finds the form Diane wanted Alexis to sign to involuntarily commit 
Kristina; later, while meeting with Ric, Alexis accidentally dropped the 
form (and other stuff) in Ric's room, allowing Molly to accidentally 
pick the form up - later, with Cody, Molly finds the form!... Not much 
else happened this ep - Sonny starts his heart surgery. Lulu starts 
writing her freelance article on adoption, but Brook Lynn finds out 
about it from Lucas.

Heretic (Max) - I guess I am inadvertently continuing my "Sophie 
Thatcher" film festival!
    This 2024 horror flick was interesting. It's probably the best (IOW, 
the most "accessible") A24 flick I have seen so far.
    Gist: Two young put-upon Mormom missionary women (Thatcher, and 
surprisingly Chloe East who you wouldn't expect in a film like this - 
Thatcher is billed ahead of East, but East pretty clearly seems like the 
"star" of the film to me) are in Colorado, and they take an 
end-of-the-day meeting with a creepy old dude (Hugh Grant, playing kind 
of a blow-hard of an old jerk (so, playing himself?!!)).
    What the creepy old dude really wants to do is engage the two women 
in a kind of theological debate. The sinister part? He won't let them 
leave! as his house is kind of "locked from the inside" and they can't 
leave if he won't let them.
    This, of course, makes the two young women increasingly terrified as 
they come to realize what's happening.
    Most of the way through, this was a decent thriller, with OK 
theological elements.
    But it wasn't perfect. For example, there's a fairly massive plot 
hole, when it's revealed that Grant's character seemingly knew 
Thatcher's character "secret", when I feel like there's no way he could 
have known about it, and they never explain how he does know, and its 
revelation is kind of way too convenient for what's happening in the 
film at the time.
    I also didn't care for the ending which seemed to me to be an 
A#1-type A24 ambiguous ending.
    But aside from not liking the ending, I overall enjoyed this.


What did you watch?