On 4/25/2025 5:34 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
On 4/25/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
My work from home day, so just soaps:
soaps: DOOL - Wed's ep. OMG, this was such a joke! This "fund raiser"
was a total joke. Do the writers think we're dumb?! This stupid "city
fair" idea would be nearly enough to get a hospital anywhere close to
out of financial insolvency! Even Gabi's $25k wouldn't have been a drop
in the bucket! I can't even synopsize this episode because this malarkey
so distracted me with its idiocy!
Y&R - More ep's from earlier in April. Filis[sic!] and Sharon and
Nick find out that "Alan" is a suspect in Filis[sic!] and Sharon's
kidnapping and psychological torture. Traci tells "Alan" that she wants
to slow things down, and "Alan" reacts very un-Alan-like - yeah, I think there's no way this guy isn't the evil twin pretending to be Alan
again... Meanwhile, Victor is such a scum bag! - He wants to hire Audra
to "seduce" Kyle to break up Kyle and dumb Claire. Audra is an absolute
idiot if she agrees to do this. And (Nu)Summer finally admits to Chance
that she's jealous of Claire with Kyle (so dumb! she really is Filis' daughter!).
And that was pretty much it. In fact, I was hit by a cable outage during
the afternoon, and was forced to put on "Beyond the Gates" (the new CBS
soap) as background noise at one point.
What did you watch?
This is a two day catch-up. I watched:
Ghosts - I caught up on the last couple of episodes, including the last
new episode which aired last night. There seems to be a common theme
where someone mishears or misunderstands something, or flat out lies,
then wackiness ensues. They *really* need to stop listening to those
ghosts! Every episode listening to those stupid ghosts brings nothing
but trouble.
Sherlock & Daughter - "The Challenge" - The pilot episode. I pulled
this off of OnDemand. The first episode has a young woman making her
way to England where she tracks down Sherlock Homes (David Thewlis) and
claims he is her father. Holmes doesn't believe it, but he puts her to
work helping him on a kidnapping case.
"The Common Thread" - Episode 2 has Sherlock & Daughter continuing to
work on the same kidnapping case.
Until Dawn (theatrical) New horror movie based on a video game. (MILD SPOILERS)
I never played the game before, but apparently the movie pretty much
ignores everything about the game. Anyway, the premise of the movie is
a young woman goes missing so her sister and a few friends make a trip
touring her last known locations. The group make their way to a
mysterious cabin in the woods (or it might as well have been a cabin)
where they all find themselves murdered. But as soon as they're dead
the evening resets and they are all alive again, except something
different kills them each time. The movie is sort of a mashup between,
"The Cabin in the Woods" and "Happy Death Day" although not as good as
either. The movie itself was OK, but I was a little frustrated because
based on the trailer I was expecting a bit more variety in the different
horror genres. There was also the common movie trope where they try
something once, it doesn't work, and instead of trying it again but
avoiding what didn't what the first time, they just ignore it all
together. At least I'm assuming that's the case, the movie conveniently
didn't show every time loop, so maybe they did try and it still didn't work.
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